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Research has shown that, while people in their 20s often leave rural communities, a higher percentage of young adults in their 30s choose rural communities, Schmitt-Wilson said. Still, most of the research on migration of young adults to rural communities focuses on "returners," or those choosing to move home to the community they were raised in, she added.
[...] The researchers found that while study participants were candid about challenges associated with life in rural areas of Montana—such as a lack of amenities and geographic and social isolation—they also highlighted a number of benefits.
"Those benefits included the quality of life they experience in their rural communities, including family-centered environments, low cost of living, unconditional support provided by community members, intergenerational friendships, increased sociability and unique opportunities for personal and professional growth available for young adults in rural communities," Schmitt-Wilson said.
If urban centers are in lockdown and their amenities are gone, would young people still choose city life or would places like rural Montana do?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by cykros on Thursday May 28 2020, @07:59PM (6 children)
You want to farm chickens, goats, and crops and expect it to take an hour/day? Perhaps as an average, where you may spend 4-6 hours a day during some months, and 15 minutes during others. In any case, I'd say you may be relying on a bit of robot farming too.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @08:43PM (2 children)
> relying on a bit of robot farming too.
Robots aren't grown, they're manufactured!
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday May 29 2020, @07:03AM (1 child)
Back in the beginning of the Great Depression, the "Dust Bowl Days", we called them, I planted eighty acres of robots. Just when the sprouted, a late spring deep frost killed them all. Has more seed, so planted a late robot crop. They came up looking mighty fine, till the bugs, locusts mostly, but some early Unix worms, killed all those. We only managed to grow one robot, in a sand-boxed greenhouse, to keep it from the harsh realities of nature, and blue screens of death. We named it "Bender". The rest is, as the say, history.
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Friday May 29 2020, @09:41AM
(Score: 3, Informative) by quietus on Thursday May 28 2020, @08:50PM (1 child)
I tend to an acre of vegetable garden, 2 glasshouses and, about half that size, a fruit garden. (Also, an additional 4 acres for keeping livestock, but that's in the past for now.) You might limit yourself to an hour a day during winter season, but these months (March to May, June) you do indeed need about 2 - 3 hours a day -- on average. Four to six hours would be ideal, and would be good enough to raise a pig for slaughter; keeping cows could just be doable too.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 29 2020, @01:11PM
You're doing it wrong. That's what children are for: chores.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @08:55PM
Some people using permaculture methods claim to be able to reduce the daily work to an hour or two... after 10-20 years of labor getting it working.