news.ycombinator.com• Mar 24, 2022• 1 min read
Ask HN: Should people move away from cities?“Everywhere is over. It’s not happening anywhere. There’s no point in city-chasing.” - Eric Weinstein.Since Covid, there's been a lot of talk about leaving cities and moving to smaller towns and the country-side. I also saw a growing interest in ideas like coliving, eco villages, and digital nomads.It seems to me that a lot of people are either looking for a change, or for community - and aren't finding it in the cities. The internet seems to have subsumed all of culture and everyone's energy, so that you're either in the rat race, working for the interests of the internet, or escaping to the country-side to farm potatoes. I'm wary of moving to a rural area, because I can't really see anything going on there either. Won't most people just become more isolated than they feel in the city?Of course, I understand many people are perfectly happy and have strong roots where they live, and many people who feel that living in the city is just... well, better. That's not what I'm talking about.