Record Numbers of Americans Fleeing Cities for Rural Areas
March 6th, 2007Cryptogon readers? HA
Via: ABC News:
Chaotic and fast-paced, city life can wear you down and wear you out. From coast to coast, people are swapping their concrete jungles for greener pastures.
In what’s been called the “Green Acres” effect, Americans are fleeing the cities for the country in record numbers. Eighteen of the 25 largest metropolises saw more people leave than move in, according to a Census Bureau report released in 2006.
From 2000 to 2004, the three largest American cities — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — lost the most residents. The New York metropolitan area saw an exodus of more than 210,000 residents in those years alone, with a significant portion likely attributable to the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
One of the main reasons for the move is land. Real estate experts say the hunt is on, creating a boom in the rural real estate market.
“We are seeing rapid growth in the mid-Atlantic area, the Carolinas, Texas, and the Rocky Mountain area,” said Dan Duffy of United Country Real Estate.
Another reason is simplicity.
“Many folks are finding that moving into rural America makes it easier to simplify your life,” Wanda Urbanska, author of “Moving to a Small Town,” told “Good Morning America.”
Oh like Good Morning America is a news source. Sadly, it is for the phlebes that are hearing the drumbeat of catastrophe coming to America. Hmph. Send good morning America to this website: http://www.solviva.com/ so’s that all who are migrating to “rural” America can see how “great” it is to muck through the U.S. bureaucracy when one tries to live “off the grid.”
Duh, what’s a septic tank? a well? and god help us all – a freaking composting toilet. THERE ARE LAWS WHEN IT COMES TO RURAL LIVING – and WE MUST ABIDE. NO COMPOSTING TOILETS. HEIL.
I think maybe I’m insulting many people who do know what they are getting into when they want to move away from the cities. But I do have friends who have moved away from city life, actually never did get into Washington, D.C.: provided home schooling to their children, geow their own food,make their living making furniture and their lives have many blessings. But they have told me stories of how their genteel Virginian “neighbors” have tried to squash and squelch their lifestyle time and time again. N&D are fine with it all, but me, I can’t believe how those who have adopted a lifestyle of “doing it on their own” in the US are really fucked over by attitudes. Can’t wait to see how the “neighbors” in rural America “take it” when all the critters from the city start to move in – thanks to Good Morning America.