A few weeks ago, I was searching for some new, fresh information on urban living. I was mostly searching for some journals (Like the Journal of Urban Studies or something like that). But then I came across the Journal of Rural Studies. And I thought, "Hey. I could use this!"
I found an article with an extremely long title, “Lay discourses of the rural and stated and revealed preferences for rural living. Some evidence of the existence of a rural idyll in the Netherlands.”
Yeah. It's intense.
So, I read into it. It's a very interesting article about how many young people in The Netherlands are flocking to rural areas, and how it's hard to evenly distribute land between all of them because The Netherlands is a very small country. But the reason people were moving to rural areas was mainly because it's beautiful to them. In Europe, most major cities are huge and crowded, so going to a rural area is a very different feeling.
I was mostly surprised by the fact that there is such a high demand for rural land. Particularly in Western Europe, which is the place people think of when they think high-class metropolis (Why? Because there's Paris, Milan, Madrid, London, Amsterdam, etc.). And to be honest, the reason they want to move out of cities is something you'd hear from hipsters in the US...
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