Expanded Internet access, combined with an increased acceptance of remote and reduced-hour work arrangements, is making a retreat to the country more plausible than ever before.
at Lincoln Center. As I discovered more recently, I had many of the details in my presentation wrong. I described McKibben, for example, as living in a cabin. This was not true: he lived in a normal house. I argued that his move to the Adirondacks was not actually that risky, because he had a deal in hand for a book thatabruptly, didn’t come up with the idea for “The End of Nature” until after arriving in Johnsburg, and was surprised to later learn thatwas interested in serial rights.
But then, more recently, I began to change my mind. It started several years ago, when I came across a humble blog with the unusual name Frugalwoods. The site followed the life of a young couple, Liz and Nate, who were working standard office jobs and living in a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Like many in their situation, they shared a soothing escape plan—in their case, moving to a homestead in the woods.
The thread unifying these recent examples is the critical role of expanded Internet access. Liz and Nate’s property is remote: there’s no cell service, so if a tree were to knock down their lines their only way to attract help would be to hike over the hills and through the woods to find a neighbor.
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