Is living in the sticks really like this?
Japan makes it seem like it.
If the internet was good I'd have no problem the crime rates are probably non existent, I'd live in the boonies no problem.
Depends. Sometimes you get some really chill shit like NNB and Flying Witch's more sub-urban countryside.
And then you also get Kuma Miko which is literally filled with nothing but old people you don't understand.
I lived in the sticks as a child. It was extremely dirty. Everyone just throws their trash everywhere, and no one is paid to clean it up. People don't give a fuck about cleanliness. Squat toilets are awful. The smell of animal shit permeates everywhere. Everyone who lived there were old fuckers. All my children my age leave to the city as soon as they can.
>>143414402
I think the internet rate would be acceptable. Japan is pretty advanced in terms of wireless.
They country is (relatively) small and their population density is rather high.
It's waay boring and getting shit is hard as fuck.
I mean yae you have small shops but imagine needing to buy a charger.
Now if Amazon delivers then it's already better but then you have to realize that small villages have around 1000 population.
75% of that wouldn't be around your age to we're down to 250. Half of that is the opposite sex so 125. Then half of that is not your type so we're down to around 63 people you can date. Now out of those 63 probably half will already be taken so 32.
Anw that was my 5 cents on it. Anime makes it seem better than it really is.
>>143414326
More trailers and meth
>>143414326
Well there would be elephants trashing your plants, wild animals stealing your fruits, baboons and assorted monkeys trashing your laundry, tons of fertilizer smell, wild hogs ruining your garden, annoying insects everywhere, keeping a stick under your bed to smack snake infiltrators, armed chink poachers looking for endangered animals to be turned into soup, black magic and patrolling headless IJA ghost.
If the sea is nearby some pirates might jack your boat and take all your fish and engines and worst that could happen is probably a marauding pirate army.
>>143414714
Don't forget that if it's the mountain then you get mountain bandits, bears and the occasional yeti.
>>143414714
>elephants and baboons
>in japan
to answer your question OP, the big advantage that rural life in japan has over, say, the USA, is advanced public transportation
rural americans don't have anywhere near the access to rail that the NNB girls do, making a day trip to the beach far easier and cheaper
>>143414806
There are wild monkeys in Japan, but they're extremely rare and avoid humans. Elephants, not so much.
>>143414326
I have family who lives in the middle of nowhere in texas. Im talking 15 minute drive to the nearest store, community mailboxes and trashcans, middle and highschools are combined. It's pretty much the same but NNB doesnt put much emphases on really needing a carand everyone doesnt have an ar-15
>inb4 bestialityanon
>>143414567
Also forgot more racists, random tires in the woods for some fucking reason, and the constant sound of ATVs in the distance. At least it is in my Amerifat sticks
>>143414326
Nah, it would look more like this.
>>143415037
What?
>>143415076
>green sky
Lmao
>>143415129
You didn't know? The sky actually has a greenish hue in areas with low air pollution.
>>143415107
>>143415037
I got you senpai.
>>143414789
No mountain bandits or yetis here, closest you get is gommie gorillas hiding in their tunnel base who cross borders for potshot, bombing and kidnapping but then we gave them pardon, free clay, tax breaks, free food and everyone turned into farmers and rubber tappers.
Well there's also illegal loggers but they don't exactly shoot people on sight to avoid police or military action although some naive western activist might end up with a horrible fate.
A decade or two ago occasionally someone get nommed by tigers but then PRC got rich, demands surged and the tigers end up as soup and cock enhancing pills. Still puzzles me how a supposedly gommie govt results in silly superstition such as tiger pills, pangolin embryo soups and whatnot.
>>143414506
That sounds exactly like the ethography I read about the Japanese sticks. Except without quite the demographic decline because it was the mid-70s.
>>143415197
What the actual fuck?
>>143414326
>>143415076
It's actually a deeper green than OPs pic in most cases, but otherwise accurate for a handpicked shot of the boonies in Japan.
it's not exactly the sticks but it's still pretty fucking gay
/endblog
>>143414326
>>143415367
It would help to shoot the pictures on a sunny, not cloudy day.
>>143415197
How accurate is this?
>>143415367
#nofilter
>>143415367
Someone needs to tell God to turn up the saturation on reality, cause this shit is unacceptable.
>>143415197
Well, that hit a little too close to home.
>>143415367
Looks like late fall or early winter.
>>143415399
Depressingly so. He's spot on about almost everything except maybe the druggies. Here in my place we have illegal loggers instead. Though there is a hidden drug plantation in the town next door.
>>143414326
>Is living in the sticks really like this?
Yes and no. It used to be a lot like that, but it's gotten bad over time because of niggers and women.
t. Southron that grew up in the 90s
>>143415046
>implying racism is bad
Faggot.
Let me tell you a story from personal experience
this one ain't gonna be pretty, you've been warned
Back in 2002 I somehow managed to go to Japan through a school exchange, they came here in the summer and we went there in March/April
The city was 2-3h north of Hiroshima, probably the biggest one in its local area but still pretty damn small and the people were nice. My host family lived in a tiny ass town some 20 minutes by car away or so, that was also nice.
Then came the marathon thing. I thought it would be fun to sign up for it, to experience the japanese countryside from a perspective you don't usually get, and of course I was not prepared. Not prepared at all. In fact, my body had timed its pooping so that mid-marathon my ass would go "There's a big brown snake knocking, you better get going".
Once the ordeal was over I was desperately looking for a public toilet, any form of public toilet. I knew the city office had a nice one, one of those with a gazillion buttons that can sprinkle water on your ass and what not. The city office was closed bcause of the marathon.
The only public toilet available was a squat toilet in a tiny shack and there was no TP available. In fact, it was slab dab in the middle of the city and I could hear all sorts of people rummaging about outside as I took a giant ass shit inside while my knees, exhausted from the marathon, were wobbly.
And there was no toilet paper.
>>143415605
Hope you just wiped with your underwear and just left them in the shack. Regardless, great post, would subscribe.
>>143415698
I won't say what I did but it wasn't pretty.
Other happenings included "Taking a train to the next prefecture to visit an actual city" "Finding a bookstore in said city and buying doujinshi tankôbon despite me being 17 years old", "Finding out the tankôbon were half-full of Doremi stuff that was not indicated on the cover", "Drinking a table of japanese dads under the table" and "Ticklefight with a schoolgirl that lead to some mild molestation".
>>143415762
(Subscribes)
>>143415824
At this point I should probably mention that all the other German students disliked me. This had its upsides, as it meant I got to have my own room in the ryokan and thus could indulge in the mysterious lands of Japanese TV at night. I saw Digimon Tamers, One Piece and some weird game show with old men dressed up as hamsters trying to recite the correct order of three colors, fucking up and laughing hard.
Also highly irritating sing-and-dance stuff aimed at 3 year olds.
Because it was 2002, nobody had Internet - during a trip to a coastal city one hour north and a short stay in the lobby of a hotel on the beach I noticed some kinda telephone that noted it had ISDN so I tried to surf the web or at least send an eMail home.
Turns out it couldn't do either and I should've just asked someone to lent me an imode cellphone.
>>143414326
I am living in the farmland right now.
There's really nothing to find around here and if ever your computer broke down, you will need to travel kilometers just to get it fixed.
But boy do I love it here. Everyone here is helpful, everyday is peaceful, and vegetables, meat, and fisheries are all cheap and fresh.
I once tried to live in the city to get some cash but I quit after just 3 months because I really am not a city dweller.
Pic related. My place is just like that. Nothing but rice paddies for miles and beaches at the other side of the road
Everything looks very old and dirty. People are friendly, but mostly are old. Communal trash piles here and there. Lot of fires for burning trash and ___ on fields (no idea what that is about). A dozen kids congregating at the convenience store that sells everything (only store in the area). Lots of chickens. Lot of cheaply made looking constructions, almost like shanties, that serve as storage or chicken coops or whatever. Old people all congregating around benches or randomly placed concrete slab playing mahjong. No idea where people who are not brats or elderly are. You know they exist, but they are nowhere to be seen.
>>143414506
how about you move to a country that is not Pakistan or some other shithole
>>143415562
Have you ever met a liberal in the boonies?
>>143416275
Liberals cannot survive for more than a few days without visiting a Starbucks. They can't survive in the boonies.
>>143416275
They exist. They're usually really crunchy hippy types or some sort of weird left anarchist.
>>143414326
Lived my teenage years in an area with such small towns that our high school encompassed 2 counties, and everyone from 3 different towns had to come to my town to go to school, and we still only had 18 people in my graduating class.
It's pretty similar to the kind of sticks depicted in anime. There's nothing to do, so you and your friends just go wandering around and getting in trouble out of boredom. The main thing everyone did in high school was to go "ridin'", which meant that you literally just piled up in a car and drove up and down Main Street over and over, and if it was a good day, someone had a bottle of vodka.
Come to think of it, that's probably why I'm a weaboo. Stayed shut up in my room watching anime because I didn't want to do that shit every day.
>>143414326
My 'sticks' are like that except the houses would be scattered within the forest area and have lots of privacy and that whole farm area would have like 1 or 2 houses in it. And barns. And cows. And no mountains.
>>143414506
>All my children my age leave to the city as soon as they can.
I like living in a small city, but I'd like to avoid living in a major metropolitan area. I can't stand the traffic and crowds.
>>143414326
It is
Maybe more if you have a bunch of hick lolis around
>>143414541
in nnb they have problems with e-mail
>>143414326
Yes. Wish I could live at Nip sticks.
>>143414553
>wanting to date
Fuck off normalfag.
>>143415367
Jesus christ. That aint comfy at all
>>143415197
>god sees how shit his life is and presents the guy with the closest-to-2D 3D pig out there
>anon gives zero fucks and goes back alone to his treasured solitude
Holy fucking shit. This stupid motherfucker.
>>143415076
Somehow, the thumbnail made me think that it was a portrait about 4 girls overlooking their village being streamrolled by the BETA
>>143415387
>>143415471
I bet it wouldn't be hard to make the real place look appealing.
>>143415367
I'm sick of people posting this nitpicked pick.
>>143415406
>#
Fuck off.
>>143415762
Reported.
>>143418642
It's a trick, pics on the right are without saturation taken during fall
>>143418802
>reporting reports
>>143414848
Right, but not baboons.
>>143414326
No, it's boring with nothing to do and just seeing the same few people every day.
I lived in a 30 people village until 18.
>>143418681
Fuck off. He did the right thing.
Besides she was probably just secretly a city slut anyway.
>>143414553
>It's waay boring and getting shit is hard as fuck
this
>>143415367
google street view virtually anywhere in japan and prepare to cry
>>143414326
That entirely depends on what country/community you end up being plopped out into. I was lucky enough to be born in rural southern Sweden, and the village I grew up in was pretty damn comfy. The people were nice, and nature being a constant presence was really soothing. However I was really out of touch with the community and never really had any friends when I was a kid, I suppose that's the reason why I came to grow tired of and leave the sticks.
And now that SJW's are running rampant here in Sweden I'm kind of tempted to move back as people there didn't really give a shit about politics, but I'd probably once again end up not having any friends, even more so since I become a weeb.
Why is life pain?
>>143415197
Disappointed there wasn't any beastiliaty
>>143419460
I like to imagine that he really did fuck an animal when he was drunk.
>>143414326
Hell fucking no.
>>143419389
Cry because it's so comfy looking?
>>143414326
If they live in the sticks, how come all their houses are so fucking nice?
>>143415367
>Left: spring
>Right: winter
How easy is it to marry a country hick?
I live in a farming town of about 500 people in the countryside. I moved here from the city for work.
It's visually beautiful. We have a very nice town in a valley and it's nice and scenic. In the springtime you can smell lilacs when you go outside.
There's a lot of truth in NNB, like the mixed age classrooms causing kids to befriend outside of their ages, and parents being less protective of their kids and pretty much just letting them roam free and do whatever they want. Younger kids are also kind of sheltered and not as socialized, so they often have poorer communication skills, like you see with Renge. A lot of people chock this up to "autism" but I know it's just the difference between country and city kids. Renge is a very realistic "country kid." The episode with her and Honoka has a lot of truth, you notice how Honoka is very talkative and formal, wears a dress, etc, whereas Renge is a lot more quiet and shy, less willing to vocalize her desires. There's this one part where Honoka notices that Renge is jealous of her camera and offers to let her use it, I think that hits the nail on the head.
But yes, the country life is nice. Some people find it "boring," but since we have an internet connection and I own a computer, I never get bored out here. It's quiet and peaceful, people leave their homes and cars unlocked, literally everyone knows you. I think the only thing I don't like about it is that you don't get the same kind of privacy or anonymity you do in a big city. You can't just blend in.
>>143415197
>mahjong
>rice wine
>buffaloes
>near a seaside town
Where is this? Based on that information alone, I think I can say that it's somewhere in SEA or possibly south of nipland but I doubt that's the case.
>>143415367
>JRPG vs WRPG
>>143415076
That actually looks a lot better.
>>143415076
Are you colorblind by any chance?
>>143415197
fake and gay
>>143415367
>take picture on cloudy day in winter
>WHY IT DON'TLOOK AS NICE
hurru durru
>>143420287
Yeah a bit of sun will have that dilapidated shit hole looking a million dollars.
>>143420287
Fucking Winter, how dare it break the windows?
>>143420347
>>143420365
Those windows aren't broken, they're open and you'd be surprised the difference good lighting and warm weather makes
I would guess it depends.
But as a child, I can't imagine the sticks really being that different from the suburbs. The only differences being that you have more chances of getting a social life if the group kicks you out, and more organized afterschool activities. There are still just a few people you generally spend time with, and you can still do a lot of the same stuff suburb or sticks. When you get older the suburbs may have more to offer though.
But I would bet that realistically, everyone would just spend their time inside watching TV or playing video games. You would have to be lucky to end up with people who actually want to do stuff, most people, no matter where they live, will rather just sit inside watching TV.
In NNB, the boy has been rejected entry to the social group of his age, and because he lives in the sticks, he has nowhere to go, and has to spend all the time alone. If he lived a place with more people, he'd have more chances at finding other social groups that didn't reject him.
>i-it would'nt be shit if it was in japan!
Fucking weebs I swear.
>>143420785
Japan has one of the lowest crime rates on the planet, it really wouldn't be that bad compared to most countries
>>143420766
Are you seriously comparing having a fucking tiny ass backyard to miles of nature to explore in every direction?
>>143420811
But crime is a city thing. The crime isn't what makes the sticks bad.
>>143420832
>crime is a city thing
Tell that to all the druggies
Does living on a small farm surrounded on all sides by an increasing amount of Suburb count as the sticks?
>>143420829
Well I live in Europe so maybe it's different here.
He have a lawn and bushes and trees around our houses, big enough for stuff that's not very space demanding. There are forested areas within walking distance and places to swim. Where I live, all the things you see them do in NNB could be done in the suburbs. As far as outside activites go, you can do the same in the suburbs as you can do in NNB.
>>143420861
Oh didn't think about drugs
>>143414326
Nothing is that vibrant and comfy irl.
>>143420811
It's not about the crime it's about bugs being literally everywhere, it's about things trying to shit on you and your belongings, it's about having to travel god awful distances for simple menial things, it's about being yanked off to help clean literal bullshit in the blasting summer heat.
Anyone who says "x would be different" is spouting nonsense. The people might be different but it'll still be the same bullshit you'd have to deal with.
>>143414402
>Japan makes it seem like it.
No not really.
I was living in similar "town" when i was a kid, you basically knew everyone within 2km radius and all you did all summer was play with the others and shit, it was good.
Too bad when you hit like 12-14 its all boring you don't have anything to do there and wish you were living in a bigger city.
>>143414402
What the fuck is she doing?
>>143415197
The countryside I lived in was an island. The only way to get there is a bridge that connects to the main road. This takes about 3 hours to go from the nearest city to our island. But the fun part is you have to go to 3 different mountain, composing a series of uphills and downhills. And since that road was only build just to connect our island to the city, there are rarely vehicles on the road. My greatest dream is to buy a Subaru and fill that road some skid marks.
Also eurobeat.
>>143420989
> it's about bugs being literally everywhere, i
Bugs are everywhere anywhere, just sit on your deck and there's bugs, just wear bug repellent if it's that bad.
>t's about things trying to shit on you and your belongings
Birds will shit on you no matter where you live
>it's about having to travel god awful distances for simple menial things
woah just like real life American suburbs, hold on, I have to go to the store? Let me drive 10 minutes/walk an hour
> it's about being yanked off to help clean literal bullshit in the blasting summer heat.
>implying it only gets hot in the sticks
>>143419669
Since bolo knife is mentioned the most likely region would be Philippines since everyone else would probably have a machete instead.
>>143414714
That's some shit
>>143421102
>implying it only gets hot in the sticks
what? it's not like we have sun here or anything right?
but other than that, this guy is complaining about silly shit, minus the travel, without car it's a nightmare.
>>143414326
The part about spending your time going around and visiting people is, and it can get really comfy sometimes, but then there's also times when it gets extremelly boring.
>>143421135
>machete
No. It's a metal sharpened (not forged) to shape like a knife.
My uncle had a katana sized one, a one-handed one. So dumb but it was so cool when I first saw it.
>>143421102
>living everywhere is shit so might as well live somewhere that's the shittiest
I see your point.
>>143421135
>angry flipf/a/g hermit living in the tropical countryside
I find this mental image very amusing. Didn't even cross my mind to google the bolo knife.
>>143414326
I used to live in a town of 300 people. I was a kid so I just ran around with my friends in the empty lots, went biking. If you don't get along with the other kids around your age you have nothing to do so you make it work. Everyone knew what you were doing every day, gossip is a major pastime for the adults. A lot of things, even shopping is a major chore. We only had 1 store for a thirty mile radius.
I only lived there for 2 years after my mother's divorce and I've actually never been back although I still live about 5 minutes from someone I met there. So my knowledge of sticks life isn't so high.
>>143415387
Somehow I don't think that Sun would make the dirt in the last picture any appealing.
My biggest concern would be what would happen if you were to get seriously injured/sick. It seems a lot safer to not be hours away from a good hospital.
>>143415197
I gotta be honest, getting drunk and playing mahjong with old people sounds like my kind of jam.
>>143421908
Not when all they do is gossip. Every conversation will revolve around why you do not have a girlfriend. They will start to try to hook you up with their grandchildren. Eventually, they will just assume you are gay.
>>143421970
>They will start to try to hook you up with their grandchildren
I fail to see the problem here, m8.
I've lived most of my life in the boonies but there is zero communality here.
>>143421970
>>143421908
You can always just go with what anon did and get drunk enough to sleep with the livestock. That's probably decades worth of hilarity that keeps on getting circulated throughout the town with every passing generation.
>>143422101
They'd most likely be missing a chromosome or two.
>>143422177
Anime didn't teach me that!!!
>>143421546
You'd be surprised
>>143422191
It's not that subtle, if you pay attention, most people in anime are missing a chromosome
>>143422681
The comically big eyes and off-coloured hair is the first clue.
>>143414326
depends, in my town it is rather comfy to live. Fast internet, friendly people that would invite anyone to fucking dinner. And mostly it's just the good temperature.
But unless your a guy that hates sitting around basking in the sun being comfy then the sticks isn't for you.
Its gonna bore you to hell and would piss you off if you lived in a city before due to the lack of things you can buy.
But for it is rather good, since I get to sit around, sell some of the goods from my shop to the tourist, sit comfortably and browse /a/ from time to time.
>>143415367
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waS--1x9Sjo
>>143422101
That's a big bird
>>143422851
Looks like shit.
It is. Beautiful scenery, peaceful, people aren't crammed together, little traffic. Has all the essentials you need, and you can get everything else from Amazon. As long as you get decent internet, rural is far better than the city. Living expenses and crime are far lower too, and there is better racial and cultural homogeneity and thus aore haonious community. Frankly the city is for fools that have to work there or are deluded into thinking their life their is somehow more important just because the name is bigger on a map.
>>143422851
Comfy
>>143423151
I, too, was a nihilistic teen once.
>>143423220
And a weeb.
>>143421157
Its not that bad anymore, gommie terrorists were exiled, black magic practitioners are pretty much gone, the elephants and tigers were moved to national parks and as a result poachers moved on but recently with the discovery of thousands year old city ruins in the jungle we get some sort of cult wearing white trying to break into excavation areas to steal artifacts from the temple. Even piracy evolved since new patrol boats ,UAVs and radars hinder Somali style piracy they now have degrees and diplomas to join shipping companies using forged identity before poisoning the crew, moving the ship beyond navy patrol areas and stealing everything.
Some bizzare stuff still goes down in other region though for example a pirate invasion a few years back and by invasion I mean hundreds of armed men.
>>143423151
You should at least mention the malaria as well.
>>143423237
No, I am still that even now.
>>143423306
Maybe if you're in some shitty 3rd world country.
>>143414553
>only 32 girls to date
Who need girls to date when they have anime waifus?
>>143415076
Eh, still an acceptable alternative compared to grey concrete buildings.
City slickers fantasize about living in the boonies while village kids fantasize about the living in the city.
>>143415197
That sounds ideal.
>>143424177
Yep, the grass is always greener on the other side. Once you make a move to the city from the boonies or vice versa, you'll start to yearn for the other again over time.
>>143424177
Where do people from the suburbs fantasize about living?
>>143423306
That sounds like you are in a video game anon.
>>143414553
You think us city anons have better luck?
>>143424241
Apartment complexes.
>>143424177
Depends on which country really. Countries which have one big 'mega-city' and then 'the rest' tend to get alot less movement between them.
>>143415762
>Ticklefight with a schoolgirl that lead to some mild molestation
You can't just leave it at that.
>>143415367
So you're telling me all we need is a new coat of paint on the buildings and we're good to go?
>>143415973
Living the dream anon.
>>143415197
What an ungrateful little bitch
If you dislike social activities and prefer to indulge deeply in your hobbies in isolation, as I do, the sticks are a far better place. I imagine it would be the same for most /a/nons. The city is more suited to normies who like to intermingle.
>>143414326
Yes. There is nature in the areas outside the cities.
Surprising I know.
>>143421093
PEI?
>>143414326
Somewhat
>>143414326
Not in Canada that's for sure.
>live in rural area
>surrounded by dense woods and swamps full of fucking bears and coyotes
>nearby houses are mostly uninhabited cottages that only have people living in them for a few weeks every year, or are occupied by elderly retirees
>mosquitoes everywhere all the time
>satellite internet gets 10kb/s if you're lucky, usually barely works at all
At least the fishing is good, but it is very lonely, if you don't have a car to drive into town you're fucked.
Non Non Biyori seems closer to small-town suburban life than rural life.
>>143414326
There's more inbreeding, which NNB really only glosses over instead of giving actual focus.
>>143414326
I spent most of my childhood living in a tiny mountain town. Non Non Biyori nailed a lot of the dynamic of living in the country and made me feel very nostalgic.
>>143424177
I'm just from a medium sized-town, so city and country life always seemed fascinating.
Then I moved to a big city for university and learned what that's like first hand, and after reading all this, the countryside seems a bit less enchanting too.
>>143424799
Is that why renge is a bit off?
![2015-10-06 15_43_52-のんのんびより 第06巻_のんのんびより_6__044.jpg [44_162] - Honeyview 5.11.png](https://i.imgur.com/XejGSUH.jpg "2015-10-06 15_43_52-のんのんびより 第06巻_のんのんびより_6__044.jpg [44_162] - Honeyview 5.11.png")
>>143424799
>>143425007
Is she about to make her younger sister pregnant?
>>143424177
As someone who has lived in both, the city is much better. Rural life is pretty nice every now and then, for a few weeks or maybe months at a time, but the seclusion will drive you insane and it is extremely inconvenient having to drive an hour just to get pizza or some coffee and donuts or whatever, it makes you want to just stay inside all day because everything is so fucking far away.
>>143425129
How about you learn to fucking cook you lazy city faggot.
![2015-09-30 01_51_28-のんのんびより 第05巻_のんのんびより_5_040.jpg [40_164] - Honeyview 5.11.png](https://i.imgur.com/GmUBBJ0.png "2015-09-30 01_51_28-のんのんびより 第05巻_のんのんびより_5_040.jpg [40_164] - Honeyview 5.11.png")
>>143425123
I was stuck at Aomori(supposedly the home for flying witch) for hours while going to Hakodate. The whole place was pure white. It was super comfy.
>>143425242
Last I heard japan was filled with chink tourists
>>143425338
My chink parents want to tour Japan. They somehow found out I speak Japanese and are telling me to go with them. Fuck life.
>>143425175
I know how to cook nigger I grew up in the country, but you don't want to have to cook every single day, sometimes you just want a nice greasy fucking artery destroying lard burger every now and then.
It's not only the food that is a problem though, everything you need is at least an hour away by car, and you'd better hope you can get a job in town or you're going to be driving even longer than that every day. Want to hang out with friends? Better rev up that gas bill. Want to go drink? The only bar is an hour away and you're going to have to sleep in town unless you want to fucking die driving drunk down pitch black country roads full of wildlife.
Country life is absolute trash.
>>143425457
Not everyone here is a normie like you.
>>143424349
This, having everything you need within walking distance is a dream come true. Suburbs are isolating as fuck.
>>143425338
No idea.
I spent a year there just after the earthquake. I guess tourists were actively ignoring them due to muh radioactive. Another anime spot, can you guys spot the squid?
>>143425481
There is also no high-speed internet in the boonies, you get either dial-up speed satellite internet or literal dial-up internet if you're lucky enough to actually have a dedicated phone line running to your house.
>>143414326
That's not even living in the sticks. That's like...small country town USA. Living in the sticks is being poor and living off of tip jars.
>>143425412
>my parents want to take me to japan for free and see cool places
>fuck my life is so shit everythibg is terrible, crawling in my skin
Kill yourself kiddo
I have lived in a lot of different places and small town/semi-rural is best. You get little courts of houses mixed among small farms, wide open spaces mixed with some pockets of woods here and there, the town and basic shopping is only a five minute drive away but can be biked easily as well, you typically still get decent internet and some really nice skies. Cost of living is also pretty cheap and if you have a well pump you don't pay for plumbing.
>>143414326
Take this but add another mile of forest and farmland between each house and major area and you have the right idea for american rural areas.
The worst part about living in a moderately to heavily forested rural area is that spooky shit happens all the god damn time.
It's nice when you can sit on the porch and nap, then get up and take your dog for a walk and everyone says hi because everyone knows everyone, but then you're up at 2 in the morning one night because your dog is going batshit fucking crazy and you hear noises that don't belong to any animal that lives in the area and find out an eviscerated raccoon was thrown at your front door when you leave for work in the morning.
The country isnt bad, though probably depending on where. I think scandinavia is the best you're gonna get.
>>143425702
Very much this.
>sleeping with window open
>wake up hearing a scream for hell, after thinking of a demon I settled for some sheep being killed or something
also
>trying to sleep
>see the light of the movement-activated light outside
>the fact that there is something moving out there
>>143425736
>cold country
>>143425702
Fucking fox screams used to keep me up at night. And then there's coyotes howling.
>>143425702
>>143425800
>oh no an owl made a dumb noise i pissed my pants
come on
>>143425862
Better than loud street cleaners at 2am and the garbage truck at 6am.
>>143425893
It's easy to say when you live in the city, anon. But when you're surrounded by forest for miles without anyone around, it's pretty spooky to hear noises at night and to know that you're ultimately pretty helpless, emergency services will take a while to get out to the boonies.
>>143415076
>>143414326
i'm not sure why i saved this, but i think some anime village was based on this
>>143425947
Newfag
>>143425936
Once you realize like 90% of spooky noises at night are just foxes and owls doing something dumb, it really takes the edge off though
>>143425908
Better than random gunshots at 4 am
>>143425702
I'm personally more scared of news of insurgent groups laying low near our parts. When that happens I always have to travel around the mountains with my father's old M1911.
It actually calms my heart when the forest is lively at night during times like those.
>>143425853
>scandinavia is cold
>>143425481
>normie
Fuck off /reddit9k/
>>143425481
>normie
Kill yourself weeaboo.
>>143425412
Neck yourself retard
>>143415408
only go outside during noon when it's not overcast and wear enchroma glasses.
>>143425893
Nah, you learn what animals make what noises pretty fast, and so do pets. Your dog's not going to freak out because he hears a fox digging through the trash.
I've heard and seen shit I can't explain away as a fox or an owl, and it gets especially creepy when you're left "gifts" in the form of dead critters that have clearly been thrown.
>>143425736
how bout nz
>>143425702
>The worst part about living in a moderately to heavily forested rural area is that spooky shit happens all the god damn time.
I remember one time, I was about 13 years old, I was in the basement at about 10pm or 11pm and noticed there was a coyote watching me through a basement window, I could see its face and front legs. It really gave me a fucking fright, I ran up the stairs like a madman. Coyotes seem to be the number one cause of all the stupid spooky shit I experienced when I lived up north. Animal carcasses, crazy noises at night, scratch marks on doors, all from fucking coyotes, the bastards loved hanging out around our house at night.
The ever-present danger of spontaneous bear attack is pretty shitty too, I'd always carry a hunting knife with me when I went in the woods just in case. It always feels like something is watching you.
>>143425947
Going to visit that place in August. Shirakawa-go is the name of the actual village. Hinamizawa is the village from Higurashi, which was modeled based on it.
>>143426189
>he replied that means he's triggered and mad
>>143425853
Cold countries are the best.
I want to move to where its snowing/pissing rain all year.
SURELY IT MUST EXIST.
>>143425893
>An owl
>Not looking out your window at 6am after hearing noises all night like an animal is dying to see a deer finish giving birth.
>A minute later 3 coyotes come tearing out of the woods and tear it and the baby to shreds before they can stand up.
>Full grown bear sniffing around your shed.
>Foxes making the creepiest fucking noises all the damn time.
You'd probably piss your pants at the first large racoon that didn't immediately run from you.
>>143426018
>Better than random gunshots at 4 am
>insurgent groups laying low near our parts
What fucking war zones are you fags living in?
>>143425702
I wouldn't worry about it.
>>143426189
how new
>>143426232
>I want to move
Too bad you're fat, lazy, dumb NEET who'll never achieve anything in his pathetic life so you better just give up your hopes.
>>143426181
Owls and foxes make all sorts of aytpical noises though, especially when they get shocked and scared themselves
>>143426181
Don't worry anon. It's just boxcar Mike paying rent for letting him live in the space under your porch.
>>143426237
America
>>143426236
>>Full grown bear sniffing around your shed.
This is one of my worst memories from my childhood.
>>143426232
>I want to move to where its snowing/pissing rain all year.
Welcome to middle/north europe! We can guarantee 300 rainy days per year.
>>143426357
Imagine that but its a tent instead of a shed.
And you're inside the tent.
>>143426232
west scotland, they see a shitload of rain all year round
>>143426489
Scotland is also fucking beautiful, shame about their accent though.
>>143426357
>let dogs outside to take a piss
>suddenly a full grown bear sprints from the fucking treeline towards dogs
>scream my head off to get them to come back
>dogs sit there looking at me like fucking retards as bear closes in
>dogs start barking at bear
>bear simply passes right by them and runs away into the forest
>having literal panic attack thinking my dogs were about to get massacred
>>143414326
Kind of, at least in 90s Ireland. A lt of the stuff they do in the episodes remind me of stuff I did with my neighbours, all of whom were at least 2 years younger than me.
>>143426357
They fucking ruin your trash too.
>>143424241
Another home in the suburbs
Growing up in the countryside is fucking awesome because boundaries are completely different and practically the whole world is your playground, plus there's basically an entire population of other kids of varying ages all occupying the same big, wide world and you all constantly bump into one another, form impromptu groups, hang out and all sorts of stuff.
As you get older and the world loses that luster of mystery and newness, it stops being so grand. As a teenager, the lack of good places to hang out or things to do wears pretty thin, and as an adult there's not much of a difference between city and country life beyond the fact that there's fewer people to deal with, more work to keep your property maintained, and fewer luxuries.
I feel sorry for kids that are stuck growing up in cities or, even worse, in those sterile nursery suburbs that constitute the existential nightmares of salarymen and middle-aged housewives than done caught the feminism.
>>143426783
I tip my hat to you good sir.
>>143415197
Oh fuck off with that shit. It's been a year and a half already and you idiots are still posting that garbage? If I knew somebody was going to cap it then I shouldn't have blogged like a faggot in the first place. I would have even preferred it if you guys just questioned that story and called it fake in the original thread.
Shit.
>>143426976
Fuck off.
You guys need to fuck off to /co/. No one gives a shit about your normalfaggotery.
>>143426100
>>143426107
>Kill yourself weeaboo.
Do you know where you are?
>>143425853
Finland is best
>>143427020
Fucking gladly.
>>143426181
>>143425702
>>143425800
Shit like this is really fascinating to read about. I know it's probably easy to explain, but part of me likes the idea of there still being everyday mysteries in this world.
>>143426976
t. falseflagger
>>143424177
That's why yankees get rich and move down South, so they can buy up some family land a bank foreclosed on and lease it all out when they get tired of playing cowboy. Then you get perfectly good farmland that's ruined and fucks up the whole economy of the area.
>>143427329
The whole economy of the south has been fucked since emancipation, don't kid yourself.
>>143427358
You've just shown in 1 sentence how ignorant and uneducated you are.
The worst parts of the countryside is when monsoon season starts, especially so when typhoons come swooping in and just fuck with everything.
I've lost count how many times I've had to help the old folks here when shit strikes.
>>143427393
>hick talking about ignorance
Comedy gold. Why don't you go back to drinking hand sanitizer and collecting welfare?
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>>143414326
>fresh air
>comfy weather all day all year
>clean water
>everybody is friendly
>easy jobs unless you directly work on the fields
Yea, it's amazing. I'd love to move to the countryside but sadly in my country you can't do that unless you have a death wish. I visit every now and then though.
>>143427534
what country do you live in that's so dangerous?
>>143427534
>>fresh air
Sure.
>>comfy weather all day all year
Fuck no.
>>clean water
But not drinkable.
>>everybody is friendly
Hahahahahaha.
>>easy jobs unless you directly work on the fields
Like what? Delivering shit all over?
Are all city folks this delusional?
>>143427584
Colombia.
>>143427660
Well I doubt everyone who lives in the country is as literally parochial as you are.
Not everywhere is like where you live. I could hold my tongue but I had an exaggerated sense of how relevant my own experience was growing up like that, in the country so to speak. In reality it was only one very small place and anything true about it was not necessarily true about other small places, and what seemed so evident to me wasn't.
It's better to get over the idea sooner rather than later, really.
>>143427665
at least you don't live in paraguay
>>143427131
>no one gives a shit
>230 replies
>100 posters
Sorry bud.
>>143424241
If I'm any indication they dream about living anywhere else. Suburbs combine the inconvenience of living in the country and the drug problems and crime of living in the city.
>>143415197
This would make for a fucking hysterical comedic SoL. The shy girl would definitely have to be a recurring character though.
>>143428847
Nah man the shy girl finale is definitely the best part. Disillusion the audience by shattering the countryside dream with a dickwad MC, inevitably garner sympathy for the guy because of all the shit he has to go through, introduce the shy girl to make people expect that he's finally getting a break, and then finally break those dreams again when the viewers realize the MC is still the same old isolationist asshole from when the series started.
Shit's beautiful. Like an antithesis to all those countryside SoLs, even more so than Kuma Miko.
Barakamon s2 when
>>143415367
Better now.
>>143429632
Autism.
>>143426206
Why
>>143429632
Good job
>>143429632
Did you just spend hours doing this?
>>143429632
Autistic fuck.
Here's your school
>>143429403
Alright that's a good point, but he did say he hung around with her for a little while before she left so she should still be the main love interest throughout the show, with the finale ending with a bitter, melancholy farewell with so many things left painfully unsaid and the dickhole MC that represents just about 90% of /a/ choosing to go back to the aggravating, mundane life he's chosen for himself instead of snatching the happy end that was practically handed to him on a silver platter. AOTS material right there, it's like Welcome to the NHK but much less pathetic and more cynical.
>>143429632
>>143429683
>>143429707
>>143429956
>>143429974
>>143430000
Calm down autists, this pic has been here a long time.
>>143430073
Redirect my post to the original autist.
>>143430107
You think I'm going to find the original for you, autist?
>>143430171
Do it faggot.
>>143414326
Not as fun as NNB, but it's honestly pretty nice. If I could download at over 100kbps I'd never want to leave this place.
>>143430181
How am I supposed to do it, homosexual?
>>143429632
Nothing wrong with this, Do you have any of the villages?
>>143430218
With the power of friendship of course.
>>143430255
Oh yeah?
>>143430295
I believe in you.
>>143430300
I don't.
>>143430031
Fine. I'll agree only if she shows up during episode five or six. Fucking pitch that shit, man.
>>143424391
I want to hear this story too
