This reads as if it’s written by someone who has bought into the imagined influencer sanitized idea of rural life which thoroughly ignores the _many_ reasons people move away from rural areas.
I mean, even just the idea that people outside of cities somehow have more “human spirit” is kind of strange and absurd.
Gosh, no. It's because roughing it actually sucks if your survival is truly at stake.
Right now you don't have to know anything about how to survive in order to survive. You just need to trade some of your time for money, somewhere, somehow.
Lack of opportunity? Poverty? Disease? Broken homes? War? Sexual/physical/emotional/spiritual abuse? To make new connections? To find a partner? To explore the wider world?
You can’t have lack of opportunity, poverty, diseases, broken homes, war, and domestic abuse in a city? I don’t get your point and the blind defensiveness.
If I’m not being a hypocrite I certainly moved to the city for the comforts of the modern world, but I’ve learned a lot since to learn that consumerism is wrong and there’s much that needs to be changed about capitalism.
