I also live in small-town Maine and can safely say that these metrics: "age, health, wealth, gender, sexual orientation, language, education, technological proclivity" are all much better optimized by living in the city.
And you can also get tortillas that aren't garbage.
Holy shit. There's only like 700,000 of us. We're probably related.
Also, my point had nothing to do with optimization and everything to do with segregation. I would continue to argue that rural Maine struggles with age, education and wealth segregation even though we're racially not very diverse.
And you can also get tortillas that aren't garbage.