A couple of things stuck out from the Harpers article - it's 50 below in winter in that area of cheap land in Colorado and you cannot leave your home unattended

A couple of things stuck out from the Harpers article - it's 50 below in winter in that area of cheap land in Colorado and you cannot leave your home unattended for any period of time or it will be ransacked. It's rugged living (compared to most Americans' lives) combined with a sort of self enforced stay at home isolation which can appeal to a segment of population that may have grown larger after our Covid experience, though I feel like the kids in that article would not have agreed with it.