It might be 5-10 miles to the nearest neighbor. A single fast food place “in the middle of nowhere” is likely just in a center location to all those rural people. Which would mean people might only have to drive 15 minutes for fast food compared to an hour to the nearest place. So this saves gas.
Looking at the pic again, there’s even a lamp post for another lot between between where the picture is taken and the taco bell, and it looks like it’s from an elevated position.
Probably a hotel next to an interstate and there’s more civilization not in frame.
Like, I guess OPs problem is there’s just a silo (maybe water tower?) in the background and not a city?
It’s like the opposite of that reddit repost where the camera angle makes it look like urban hell, but it was really just a couple gas stations and a fast food place with nothing else for miles except greenery.
The US being so car-centric that it’s profitable to put a taco bell in the middle of a very rural area because people will drive to go there.
Do you not know how rural areas work?
It might be 5-10 miles to the nearest neighbor. A single fast food place “in the middle of nowhere” is likely just in a center location to all those rural people. Which would mean people might only have to drive 15 minutes for fast food compared to an hour to the nearest place. So this saves gas.
Have you never visited actual rural areas before?
No, they haven’t
So many people never even drive the 20 minutes it takes to get into the semi rural, let alone deep enough to understand something like OPs pic
Looking at the pic again, there’s even a lamp post for another lot between between where the picture is taken and the taco bell, and it looks like it’s from an elevated position.
Probably a hotel next to an interstate and there’s more civilization not in frame.
Like, I guess OPs problem is there’s just a silo (maybe water tower?) in the background and not a city?
It’s like the opposite of that reddit repost where the camera angle makes it look like urban hell, but it was really just a couple gas stations and a fast food place with nothing else for miles except greenery.
We get it, the joke is that Europeans can’t imagine this lack of density
We do have plenty of American fast food restaurants that are barely accessible by other means than cars.