It's kind of funny to me that for a long time the people in cities looked down on rural people and life and touted the benefits of living in close proximity. When COVID hit, we saw a mass exodus from the cities and now people don't want to return.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/12/16/in-2020-f...
Urban people do not look down on rural people. It’s the opposite. Rural people are the most likely to hold negative opinions about people who live in other situations, and urban dwellers are the least likely.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/how-peo...
When a rural person comes to town, do the local urban people take a moment to shout something derogatory at them? If that happens I have never seen it.
"Flyover Country" is thrown about often however. Especially around election time and regarding how they are controlling to much of the country's politics.
1. Those who express disparaging remarks towards others do not need to utilize a specific term.
2. A common narrative is that urban environments/cities are mismanaged, possess dangerous amounts of crime, and filled of corrupt politicians.
3. "Flyover Country", in a political context, is generally a complaint about the structure of representation.
If we let the people who like to live in cities bunch up closer together (by legalising more density there), the rest of us have more space in the rest of the country. It's a win-win situation.
We need more of this! It seems so much of our public discourse is worsened by putting people and their opinions into firm groups, then assuming that anything anyone in that group ever says is a core believe of that group and then vilifying the group for that believe.
In eg Singapore rents are also up, but finding an apartment is just as easy (or hard) as ever. You just have to pay up.
I'm one of the ardent never-RTO crowd, leaving a 9 year tenure.
If existing laws and regulations allow competition, that is. Some sectors are severely locked down.