[librish]

This is a great path, but I think it's easy to overestimate how many people are able to take it happily.

It's making a lot of assumptions:

- You have a good relationship with your family

- You have good friends who also didn't move away

- You are genuinely happy with the work you get to do in a town with more limited career choices

- Your location (area and population density) plus salary can support your hobbies

[ilyt]

It's probably easier now than 10 years ago with remote work opportunities.

But yes, that is a lot of stars that need to align

[ljlolel]

Also notably that onion article was published over 10 years ago in 2013. At least by 2020 (before remote work) that seemed impossible to fulfill given the increasingly competitive global capitalist system creating massive uncertainty (and causing taking pills and overdose) to everyone especially rural and those back home