dennis@home wrote:


"Peter Scott" wrote in message
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dennis@home wrote:

Don't quite follow the last point. I don't see how I benefit from
cities. Did you mean by not having lots of houses?

You benefit from civilization.
There wouldn't be any broadband, etc if it weren't for cities as
there wouldn't be any civilization to develop them.

Sorry to add yet another comment but...

Someone just pointed out to me that the cities did not develop at all
until technological developments in the country enabled fewer people
on the farms to feed the growing city populations. So civilisation
started in the country (and some would say has remained there). Don't
believe me, just read a history book.

Why.
They don't agree with what you say.
After all we aren't talking about 2000 year old civilizations here,
unless you have evidence of broadband in the pyramids.

This is trying to hit a moving target. One minute you are talking about
civilisation, then when you start losing the argument, you change the
subject back to broadband.

As I suggested, just take a look at page 8 of:
http://www.isitfair.co.uk/Reports/Pu...licFinance.pdf

This is a message near the bottom of this thread together with my comment.

I look at your arguments rather like listening to the co2 deniers or the
Victorian Punch cartoon of the man in the zoo standing next to a giraffe
saying 'there is no such animal'. As I said, read a history book about
what enabled the growth of cities. Particularly why they started to grow
exponentially after the introduction of better farming methods 200 years
ago.

Peter Scott