The loss of community, sadly, does not affect only the youth, but all people that have grown with the internet. This now includes older millennials like me. --

The loss of community, sadly, does not affect only the youth, but all people that have grown with the internet. This now includes older millennials like me. --- I have a silly dream that has been calling me for years now, and I don't know where to start [1]. We're all knowledge workers now, right? We basically just need electricity, a laptop and an internet connection to contribute to society. Is this not the time to start a movement away from the big chaotic cities, back into the calmer and more peaceful rural villages? I envision a future where "nature life" does not mean hippy living like the 1800s, but we can leverage our modern high technology to make natural life even better for us. For example, solar panels, low-energy devices and appliances, automated greenhouses/hydroponics, etc. Natural life also means community life. We are tribal animals, we enjoy being productive members of groups of < 50 people, where everybody knows each other, they have their own "culture" and way of doing things in harmony. In 2024, this doesn't have to mean warring with each other with rocks. Modern "tribes" are no more than communal and self-contained living and social arrangements. Basically, I have this unbearable call to settle in the middle of nowhere, with other people that have the luxury to live free of the shackles of modern society, to live like humans are meant to live: in the sun, in the grass, in a community but also with running water, fibre internet and green energy. I know some of us are starting to have the same need and we are at a point in civilisation where this is possible, so here's my shot in the dark, hoping to talk with and hear from the other unreasonable, uncivilised ones that just want to abandon the idea that we are meant to live in chaotic cities socialising mostly through the hellish babel that is social media. --- 1: actually, I know where to start. I am moving back to Italy within the next few months, and will seriously look into a place to settle and to make this a reality just for myself.