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> What, you think you get outside the city and everyone's sitting on their ass in a trailer park collecting welfare and working on their diabetes or something?

You're the one slinging data-defying stereotypes around. Believe it or not, "working in the trades" is something lotsa urban folk get up to, as with hunting and fishing, and boy howdy do urbanites love some huge lawns in their green spaces. Do you think urban grass just mows itself? No, cities hire urbanites for such jobs.

And, real talk. You made haybaling sound tough; I'll grant you that for lack of experience, but I've ridden a damn lawnmower and it's no great workout. And if my rural family is at all typical, mowing a lawn is a net positive in calories because riding a mower is occasion for a beer or six.

But the data says y'all are more sedentary and more obese on average than city dwellers. Now, I'm inclined to blame DDT exposure for the latter statistic, and reliance on cars for the former, but if you want to make some weird judgements about how folks are spending their time, that's on you.




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