I can see your point and agree this is probably true for the large majority of people. And most people don't want to live close to nature; it seems the large ma

I can see your point and agree this is probably true for the large majority of people. And most people don't want to live close to nature; it seems the large majority like being near cities and people, I'm just not one of them. :-D I'm not entirely sure that the dichotomy of high productivity city-dwellers/lower productivity country dwellers is true any longer though. I'm a dev manager/programmer working remotely, many of my neighbors are also in IT or construction and either work remotely or commute, and many programmers in our company also live in "fly-over" states in rural areas. Most also own chickens, have small farms, or raise competition animals. But I still understand and see your point, and I see the value in this for suburban areas. I suppose my mind went to areas more rural than the article is talking about.