And they haven’t read the work of Nikiko Masumoto, an artist who is rethinking food systems while working alongside her family on their organic peach farm in rural California."
It's not just that she wants to live in a "rural area," she also is hell bent on turning her new "rural" home into just the kind of enlightened craphole she recently left behind.
Seventeen years ago I moved from NYC to a rural area outside a small town (<8000) in WV. In the last 2-3 years I’ve seen an increasing number of former residents returning. At the same time we’ve suddenly had a “unity parade” and a bill (defeated fortunately) to require some type of “inclusivity” in hiring. Now a 1% “city sales tax” is being pushed. It seems that what I was escaping has found me out.
Seriously considering just sprucing up the place and putting it on the market along with my boat, truck and other earthly posessions and taking my show on the road. The only thing that scares me is health care. I get mine through my retirement package and at 74 it is a priority.
She and her kind have totally changed my little bit of what was once a nice quiet conservative rural area. I don’t like it here anymore but where’s there to move to that hasn’t been changed.