I couldn't agree with you more. I'm here reading hacker news in a rural town in Maine (a summer town on the coast, granted, but hey, it's winter ... ). I love

I couldn't agree with you more. I'm here reading hacker news in a rural town in Maine (a summer town on the coast, granted, but hey, it's winter ... ). I love your note about cities being stuck in the era they shine. That's brilliant and so unbelievably true. I love cities and urban environments. I grew up in Chicago and spent time living in our fair city (Boston) before moving north. But I settled up here to be close to family and to not let my ambition get to heady. You can wind up feeling really important and powerful in a city, and the discovery that barring 0.01% of the population you aren't actually very important or powerful will destroy you if that's what you built your life on. Instead I've built a life around family, farming and hacking (which incidentally, farming basically invented ... every farmer has their own solution to a problem).