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People on here got really pissed at me once because I said I enjoyed when I lived in West Virginia for a bit. I guess liking hills is racist or something.
Mao was right for sending the dumb fucking city kids into the countryside. If you don’t spend enough time in nature you end up like that guy on Reddit who cries every time they leave an urban area.
You can spend time in nature in cities. That's the point of giant parks, nature reserves, public gardens, and the like along with cooling off the city itself and other benefits
It's not the same though.
what are the key differences for you
Let's put it this way: the parks in Portland are nice, but they will never compare to the nature immediately outside of Bellingham. Like, a bike polo court and some trees is nice, but when I lived in a place where I could drive to the north cascades it was just better. There's something about immersion in nature that is life changing.
i understand to some extent (i live in a mountain range for that reason), but I'm trying to understand the original point of the OP. Mao's campaign as far as I understand it was to educate urban kids on the labour of the countryside to lessen urban/rural divide where industry and consumption happens in urban places and raw resource harvesting of materials in rural places. but that's entirely different then heading into a mountain range to disconnect from modern society