Choosing life in the countryside over city life


By AGENCY

Recent surveys have shown that with their jobs showing more flexibility about being in the office, many people are considering getting out of the confines of dense cities and going elsewhere. Photo: dpa

One of the reverberations of the pandemic and resulting shift towards remote work has, for many people, been a reckoning with why they choose to live in an expensive city instead of the countryside.

Recent surveys have shown that with their jobs showing more flexibility about being in the office, many people are considering getting out of the confines of dense cities and going elsewhere.

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