Post by Admin on Jan 27, 2020 9:42:38 GMT -7
Escapees Flock Again To Rural America
Americans have always experimented with different ways of living. The Pilgrims, driven by religious persecution, traded the benefits of English civilized society to live on the hostile and unknown North American continent and attempted to live off the land. Nathaniel Hawthorne in "The Scarlet Letter" urged his wayward New Englanders to return to the days of the Pilgrims and later Puritans. When the farmers of the east were well into moving westward to the rich lands of the Ohio river valley and beyond, Henry David Thoreau advocated subsistence farming and one room homes in the now peaceful, New England forest.
For better or worse, communes, religious settlements and other experiments in social organization dot American history. The trend is still alive and well today. Many of our neighbors in rural Paradise Valley are refugees from big cities who came here seeking peace, quiet and a better way of living out their remaining years. Many do not find what they were searching for and are unprepared for the harsh weather. They often leave within five years for greener pastures.
But people still keep coming and the rate seems to be picking up in Paradise Valley. Land is getting more expensive and the best and biggest spots are scooped up by billionaires.
A well versed Forum reader sent us the following article regarding the growing movement of Americans from "tyrannical states" and dangerous, crowded cities to rural lands. The article is enlightening and surely you will see some of your neighbors in it.
Read the article here.
For better or worse, communes, religious settlements and other experiments in social organization dot American history. The trend is still alive and well today. Many of our neighbors in rural Paradise Valley are refugees from big cities who came here seeking peace, quiet and a better way of living out their remaining years. Many do not find what they were searching for and are unprepared for the harsh weather. They often leave within five years for greener pastures.
But people still keep coming and the rate seems to be picking up in Paradise Valley. Land is getting more expensive and the best and biggest spots are scooped up by billionaires.
A well versed Forum reader sent us the following article regarding the growing movement of Americans from "tyrannical states" and dangerous, crowded cities to rural lands. The article is enlightening and surely you will see some of your neighbors in it.
Read the article here.