One rational reason:  Wynton Marsalis doesn’t play (Whatever)sville.

Go ahead. Someone provide a rational argument that will convince me that human beings are sociologically, psychologically and physiologically better suited to living crammed together in concrete caves piled high upon one another, than in a peaceful, gracious country or small town setting where the cacophony and chaos that is city living is considered obnoxious and abhorrent.

City living has, admittedly, a FEW real benefits… comprehensive and immediate assistance in medical emergencies, for example.

However, at some point, many of us come to understand that even those benefits don’t outweigh the Quality of Life (QOL) that is found ONLY in rural living. QOL is not measured in decibels or money or power. We, for instance, left big city living 10 years ago and will never return. We’d have to be out of our minds to swap fresh air and water, privacy, peace and quiet, and wide-open spaces with nary another soul in sight, for the soot-filled, siren-infested, crime-ridden disgrace that our cities have become.

No more living like rats in a race to nowhere for us… but if that’s your bag, you’re welcome to it. In fact, STAY THERE in BIG CITY. We in the countryside would prefer if you do.

It’s a desire for rural idiocy.

Supports my case that America is not “addicted to oil”—America is addicted to Real Estate.