Being new to Paleo - this is a serious question:
Are Paleos against cities and humid climates? I like living on the outskirt of a city and going out to the country.... but I love having easy access to cultural events and the vibe of a city. I like both the country and the city. I also love the higher humidity climates.
Do y'all only like living in the country?
I would say one could easily get that impression from alot of the posts around these parts. At least the city thing (anti-culture)...not sure about climates.
Personally I don't notice heat or humidity unless its well over 100 deg. I haven't turned a fan on or anything this year.
It bothers me when discussions are about how dumb/wrong society is and so forth but then I have no nostalgia for sitting on porches after a hard day of tending cattle or something or even living full time off the land if that was even possible. I've lived on farms/woods and its not for me. Theres the harshness element which is something, but to me minor in comparison to the lack of things to do/lack of things that make wanting to be healthy worthwhile - so to speak. These have everything to do with humanities' amazing evolving positives in lieu of its mistakes.
I guess ideally if I had money I'd like a place in New York for the spring and fall, LA for the winter months..and some kind of summer and other vacation home that was a little more rustic where I could play in the dirt and kill things. At some point in my older years (provided the landscape isn't drastically dissimilar) I might like to have more of a Ted Nugent lifestyle, be gathering most of my own food and meditating and shooting guns and whatnot. At this point obviously cities have the highest concentration of like minded weirdos and intellectual and artistic activity and thats far more interesting/life-affirming to me than how unnatural it is.
Its occurred to me that being spoiled by our unnatural environments is one way ironically people manage to say healthy. Its true that people are out of shape because they arn't involved in the regular activity that would correspond with nature..but that activity also has a price in wear and tear..and was downright dangerous. Although its unsustainable, on an individual level for those motivated to make the right decisions...the current way of being able to easily acquire food per efforts as well as live, fornicate, and exercise at one's own will..actually seems to go along way to increasing health more than the limited exposure to various experiences in what nature provides.
Of course raising your own food is a great step/important for progress but in honesty but I probably wouldn't be doing that to a large degree right now no matter where I was living, so i'd rather be included in what the city has to offer. I appreciate the farmers I deal with regularly but I wouldn't want to hang with them.
