I feel you there, but if anything you’ll probably be able to retire before your hair is grey (or at least before it’s fully grey). Then you can just relax in the rolling hills somewhere.

It’s never too late to pursue your dreams! You’re not done until you’re dead.

I don’t know what you do, but I know that by me rural areas having 4 professions available:

Ann Arbor must be a lot like Columbus, Ohio with the rural and cities being only 10 minutes away. I wish you well with your water, you seem like a decent person.

That area is certainly a unique case, and by me in Geauga County (Ohio) Skip Claypool tried to do the same shit that caused the Flint issues. More logical people prevailed thankfully.

I know of having a personal well, but zoning is where things are very lax in rural areas. There generally are no zoning laws in the middle of nowhere (or they’re very lax) and I know that Obama didn’t improve thing too much EPA-wise, though Trump has actively cut their funding.

I will happily stick to cities. I grew up in the middle of nowhere Michigan, and then moved to slightly less in the middle of nowhere Ohio. I lived close enough to a city that I had to deal with their traffic cameras, and then helped organize a petition to put them up to vote (Cleveland by law can never have traffic…

If that’s what you like and you aren’t harming anyone/anything, more power to you. I personally love cities (as long as they don’t have traffic cameras), there’s something cool about seeing the day turn into neon lights and then turn to sunrise, it’s great. Plus all the fun stuff is everywhere, and opportunities are…

I understand that there are still risks to municipal water, however, municipal water tends to be very predictable in quality and also tends to not have the same problems with things like chemical runoff. While the runoff can get in there, at least by where I live, they are very very quick to treat and clean that water…

Have fun with that and good luck, but I’ll pass.

It may taste questionable at times, but trust me when I tell you that drinking dirty water (that happened to me once as a kid when I was out in buttfuck nowhere) is way worse than a little chemically of a taste. The taste of public water is nothing compared to violent diarrhea/vomiting and if you drink dirty water, or…

If you are a farmer, I get living out there. However for any other reason I can’t see a reason to live out there. Farmers also get cancer quite often due to chemical runoff in the well water.

To each there own for sure, but for me I live in an area that is just populated enough to have public water. There are many MANY homes that still have a metal septic tank and believe me they reek. My town has no inspection requirements and the septic companies just “inspect” and carry on.

It’s an accurate comparison, as there’s nobody making sure that the water is being kept clean and it certainly is more susceptible to runoff/contamination as it isn’t being processed.

Flint is an example of incompetent people being morons. Out by me in Geauga County, they tried to pull the same shit that caused the Flint problems. Democrats stepped in a saved that county (even though it’s notoriously a far right county).

That sounds a little strange to me. Why would you want to live out in the middle of nowhere? There’s just nothing out there except farms, pesticide runoff from farms, and weirdo right wingers.

Why would you ever want to live out in the middle of nowhere unless you’re a farmer?

If they live in an area to rural to have proper public water, I can understand. But that doesn’t change the fact that I’d avoid places like that like the plague. Well water is far inferior to treated public water, especially in instances like this.

Why do people use well water? That’s like going bareback on an escort (you may be fine, or you can get a whole host of things, it’s a crapshoot). Maybe the real question though is why do people live in places with well water?

My dad was and still is convinced that using the parking brake in an automatic will break the car. He only ever parks it using “P” and using the parking brake will involve him bitching about it for days.