Check out this classic New Yorker article. [1] Here's how it starts: "My wife and I got married right out of college, in 1978. We were young and naïve and unas

Check out this classic New Yorker article. [1] Here's how it starts: "My wife and I got married right out of college, in 1978. We were young and naïve and unashamedly idealistic, and we decided to make our first home in a utopian environmentalist community in New York State. For seven years, we lived, quite contentedly, in circumstances that would strike most Americans as austere in the extreme: our living space measured just seven hundred square feet, and we didn't have a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, a lawn, or a car. We did our grocery shopping on foot, and when we needed to travel longer distances we used public transportation. Because space at home was scarce, we seldom acquired new possessions of significant size. Our electric bills worked out to about a dollar a day." [1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/18/green-manhattan https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/18/green-manhatta...