We have lived south of Houston and east of Los Angeles, back and forth five times, since 1973. So when we retired we built our dream home 11 miles outside of the nearest large town. We are out in the boondocks. LOVE IT! Surrounded by trees, coyotes, deer, etc. If we don’t want to see other people out here, we don’t have to. Going into town is a town of 6000 people and one stop light... Heavenly!
What we see and hear on the TV about what is going on in the rest of the country is not familiar to us. It's like the news is about a foreign country, not the one we live in.