I’m sure there are a few of us, I left the NYC to move to a rural area to raise goats and make cheese and soap. I kept my job and work remotely. It has been a challenge. Keeping my job means i’m not completely connected here, or dependent on it to make a living. It’s tough to live in a new place where most of the people have been here for generations. I have a small child now so I hope he’ll fit in and find his community, in a way that I can’t.

Being relatively self-sufficient is its own blessing, though. Especially over the past few years it has been great to have food security and almost everything I need here or within a few miles.