Rethinking the Country Life as Energy Costs Rise

The Choice is becoming more well defined. A. Move back to the city, or B. Figure out how to make telework a preferred option.

The social costs of choice A could be huge…ie, major loss of asset values, tax base and so forth in rural outlying areas and an dealing with an unprepared urban infrastructure to deal with population influx. Will choice A result in more of the urban poor being pushed out into the country without jobs as reverse migration to the city pushes up proprety values in regentrified urban neighborhoods? Will the rural communities become places even more dependent on low income transfer payments? I like choice B much better.

Bill Gillis