How many people, when buying a home, seek out and assess the mean time to response?
Did you buy a home? Or even if you rent, have you checked? Depending upon city neighborhood, average response times vary widely.
Some city areas are hospital adjacent. Some are a mean time of an hour away.
If you haven't purposefully checked, then why not?
Some people live in 6 story buildings with (gasp!) no elevator. What of them? I assure you a stretcher up and down 6 stories is no better than a mere 1/2 mile walk on flat ground.
What of power outages in the city? Did you check to see if your building has a backup generator? Yes? No? What do you do if the power is out, and you're on the 35th floor? Yet many city buildings have no backup generator, even tall ones.
If one is to throw stones, take care not to live in a glass house. Or in this case, an apartment building.
Hmmm...Until recently I had an elderly relative living with me and I _know_ the difference in difficulty in getting them out with cleared snow vs not, and it's a lot.
Does that sort of thing (and hospital proximity, etc) matter to everyone? No. Or certainly it doesn't matter the same amount.
Bear in mind I advocated clearing with a snow blower a walking path. This is far cheaper than owning a truck and plow, and can be done very fast each storm.
Note, this is a thread about cost savings in rural circumstances.
But my statements about parallel situations stand. And about people evaluating things ahead of time, they just don't. Rural living has different risks, but city born risks are just as high. IMO, higher.
Just the additional smog and pollution alone are an issue. It's even hotter in a city.
I'm sorry about your incident, but I've seen 6 story buildings with no elevator. People live there to save money too. The stairwells are not conducive to a stretcher either.
So people save as they can.
All that said, how many people move when they get older, so they're closer to hospitals?
I get why you wanted to chime in, with a personal experince though.
Did you buy a home? Or even if you rent, have you checked? Depending upon city neighborhood, average response times vary widely.
Some city areas are hospital adjacent. Some are a mean time of an hour away.
If you haven't purposefully checked, then why not?
Some people live in 6 story buildings with (gasp!) no elevator. What of them? I assure you a stretcher up and down 6 stories is no better than a mere 1/2 mile walk on flat ground.
What of power outages in the city? Did you check to see if your building has a backup generator? Yes? No? What do you do if the power is out, and you're on the 35th floor? Yet many city buildings have no backup generator, even tall ones.
If one is to throw stones, take care not to live in a glass house. Or in this case, an apartment building.