Do You Have What It Takes To Leave The City?

After the dot-com crash, then 9-11, many urbanites have considered moving to the country. Would you make a happy country dweller?

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September 30, 2002, 4:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen


"[J]ust about every harried professional has dreamed at one time or another of living like the Schads. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, you hear a lot more talk of people wanting to chuck the urban life and invest in a little business somewhere -- a bed and breakfast, say, or maybe a small farm, winery, or weekly newspaper.... You have to be quite wealthy nowdays to start up a California winery. Wine-industry consultant Vic Motto notes that prime agricultural land in Napa Valley now goes for $150,000 per acre."

Thanks to Chris Steins

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