I Want Out Mommie

Maybe you haven’t noticed, but not so quietly the cities are starting to panic. With the appearance of COVID, many occupants of our crowded urban centers are now reassessing their lives. They’re slaves to high local taxes and carrying costs that allow them to live in these urban “high density killing fields”. If you think this is an exaggeration then you need to read about the lives of New York commuters over the past few months. Crowded into these pandemic death camps is not what intelligent people will choose to do. They are waking up to just how sick their environment has become. Maybe the majority hasn’t figured it out yet, but many of these slaves have. They want out of their urban gulag and COVID showed them the door. 

THEY CAN WORK FROM HOME….and home can be just about anywhere. They don’t have their ballet anymore….or their baseball…or their football….or the nice dining. Then why the hell are you there? Maybe it comes back, but what happens if real estate prices start to drop and you’re stuck in your gulag? What if you don’t own but rent? Then you have very little stopping you from getting out. Live on the beach. Live in the mountains. Live in the countryside and grow your own food. Plant nut trees. Plant fruit trees. So many options that give you the freedom to sustain and control your life as opposed to being crammed into a 800 sq foot 2 bedroom tin can apartment. 

Big changes coming for us and its already started where I live. The urban wealthy are moving into this area in hillbilly land buying lakefront mansions that had little chance of selling after the 2008 collapse. I think this going to accelerate as the evidence builds that COVID is not going away and will continue to negatively impact our lives. Those that stubbornly refuse to acknowledge change may wish they were the “early adapters” of this new dynamic, but Nature will decide for them. gl