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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3196917, member: 71723&quot;]Yes, rural life has always been a fundamentally different matter from urban/suburban life. I call where I came from &quot;rural&quot;, but the fact is I could be standing in the middle of Times Square, New York within 2-1/2 hours after helping with an Amish barn raising, and standing on the steps of the United States Mint in about 2 hours.</p><p><br /></p><p>For all of our time, rural has been different. In the 1950&#039;s, it was the difference between the Sears or Penney&#039;s catalog and going to the stores. I never bought a single coin by mail order, before the Internet took over. Think about that. Not one!&nbsp; I have ALWAYS been able to, and have preferred to, do business face to face. If I tried to live where I couldn&#039;t routinely get to an urban place with the merest of whims, I would probably open a vein.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other difference - where I lived before, there was NO hardline broadband - no cable, no DSL, no nothing. Three miles farther north, they had Verizon, err no, Comcast cable, and 5 five miles the other way, they had Verizon FiOS fiber optic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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