“As a rule, I have not been to a city over 50-70k people in many years and probably won’t again. Nothing there I want, nor need to see. I like trees, hills, and pastures, good folks, and open roads.”
All the best health care is in major cities. If you want to trust your regional medical quacks to do open heart surgery by all means. I will be at MD Anderson in Houston.
I have acres and acres in multiple places in the USA I don’t hide on them. Cities are full of Arts culture and foodie culture. Be a hermit frankly the youngers don’t care. I like to travel Tokyo is one of my favorite places on earth. NYC is too.
Good for you. Whatever makes you happy, that is called freedom.
I traveled extensively my first 50 years (military, work, and pleasure). Been all over so nothing much left I want to see, especially outside this country. I don’t eat much foreign/exotic food, beef and taters and greens for me (I like to know what I am eating). I like the quiet life and don’t really care if anybody, especially youngsters, care. I like dogs, horses, and cows better than majority of people anyways. I get up, work and spend my evenings and weekends doing relatively only what I want to do. The occasional trip to a small country dancehall for some dancing or round of golf. No more rat race, traffic, rude people, pop-culture crap, crime, or flight delays. Outside of work I am not on a computer more than 1 or so a week. Phone only when one of my kids texts/calls me.
I gym every day and am in better shape than most, but if I do get sick, I am not worried. Haven’t had a cold or flu (not China flu either, didn’t vax) for almost a decade now.
So, I am good. I hope you enjoy your endeavors. Different strokes for different folks. I’ve had my fill of the new culture here, progress, forced stress, and city stuff.