Right now I live in a former mining community in Nevada. But my wife's extended family is in a copper-mining community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Same kind of place. My wife also lived in St. Benedict, Pennsylvania, a former coal-mining community in Cambria County (southwestern PA). Same kind of place again.
Right now I live in a former mining community in Nevada. But my wife's extended family is in a copper-mining community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Same kind of place. My wife also lived in St. Benedict, Pennsylvania, a former coal-mining community in Cambria County (southwestern PA). Same kind of place again.
It's ideal if the place is 30 minutes to an hour or so outside a major city and surrounded by farms or a lot of public land. When looking on a map, look for the smallest possible dots for the towns. They should be surrounded by lots of empty space or green. Nearby mountains are good, because they collect water for you.
After a while, you learn to spot these places anywhere.
This is a lovely little primer. I feel like it’s harder to find in densely populated Europe, but then I stopped for a minute and realized even in tiny Holland we do have closeknit communities that beat the Covid propaganda. They managed to convince everyone in the municipality to basically never test. They had the best Covid numbers for ages! And now lowest vax rates. No doubt in my mind they will figure out the next crisis with aplomb. Not easy to integrate though, should we choose to move.
Right now I live in a former mining community in Nevada. But my wife's extended family is in a copper-mining community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Same kind of place. My wife also lived in St. Benedict, Pennsylvania, a former coal-mining community in Cambria County (southwestern PA). Same kind of place again.
It's ideal if the place is 30 minutes to an hour or so outside a major city and surrounded by farms or a lot of public land. When looking on a map, look for the smallest possible dots for the towns. They should be surrounded by lots of empty space or green. Nearby mountains are good, because they collect water for you.
After a while, you learn to spot these places anywhere.
This is a lovely little primer. I feel like it’s harder to find in densely populated Europe, but then I stopped for a minute and realized even in tiny Holland we do have closeknit communities that beat the Covid propaganda. They managed to convince everyone in the municipality to basically never test. They had the best Covid numbers for ages! And now lowest vax rates. No doubt in my mind they will figure out the next crisis with aplomb. Not easy to integrate though, should we choose to move.