I'm thankful to have access to a cabin that sits on a portion of the homestead my grandfather grew up on in what is now just a relatively rural area of the grea

I'm thankful to have access to a cabin that sits on a portion of the homestead my grandfather grew up on in what is now just a relatively rural area of the great plains in Canada. It's a pretty rudimentary cabin by modern standards, on a farmable, but not easily mass-farmable sizable hectarage. It has electricity, and a septic tank, but we haven't tapped a well, and bring our own drinking water, with a future possible rain filtration system. There's no wifi, but some spotty cell signal. Very good growing soil that doesn't tend to flood so badly, and gravel roads. This cabin, and brief camping/hiking trips, are a wonderful way to break from the city, but I'd never trade it for my rental in the city. I'll never likely own a home of any kind the way things are going, though it's never been on my mind until now anyway, and still I wouldn't live out there as my primary residence; even with a shower, even with good internet, even with a washer and dryer, and I wouldn't do it for the same reasons that my grandfather doesn't, some of the same that the author mentions. There are no nearby hospitals, there are not many nearby people to strike up a conversation with, and it's otherwise quite deliberately isolating; an experience that's fine for a bit, but only for a bit. Even car-dependent, seemingly anti-social suburbanites who hold up in their fenced-in backyards behind the McMansion someone built for them on former wetlands would eventually go crazy if they didn't have their neighbours around to complain about. That amount of time varies from person to person, it's easier if your hobbies or work don't seem to include any other people, until you want to give your crafts to someone, share your work in some way, or enjoy those that others have produced. Maybe that time is when you realize it's impractical for anyone in your family to visit you, or for you to visit them, even infrequently.