Which shocks me. As someone who lives in a populated big city, it baffles me that people want to live in the cities. I do not see many benefits of it, maybe medical care here is a lot better considering there are many public and private hospitals all around me, so I agree that medical part is better here. But aside from that, life sounds a lot better as a farmer than what I am doing right now.
There are two reasons why I am not becoming a farmer, first is I have no clue how to farm, never seen how a farm is managed, never even played those farm manager type of computer games, so I am not a farmer because I don't know how to be. Secondly, it requires capital even to be a farmer, you see that as a low job, but the costs of a farm, is a lot. From tractors to seeds to other machinery, to buying a huge plot of land, many many things cost a lot before you make your first income.
In my case, I've always lived in a small town, having contact with big urban centers only on holidays and vacations. And by comparing both, I really prefer the big centers, because there is more activity, technology, different people, opportunities and contact with the world.There are two reasons why I am not becoming a farmer, first is I have no clue how to farm, never seen how a farm is managed, never even played those farm manager type of computer games, so I am not a farmer because I don't know how to be. Secondly, it requires capital even to be a farmer, you see that as a low job, but the costs of a farm, is a lot. From tractors to seeds to other machinery, to buying a huge plot of land, many many things cost a lot before you make your first income.
It's inevitably lonely to live in countryside. You will probably have contact with only the same people for your entire life, and in a very similar way, without much progression in life. Unless you are a farmer making huge income to travel to different places, I think it's too depressing...
But if you like the idea of moving from the populated big city, you can always try something new. Maybe you don't have to buy a piece of land at first glance. You can just travel to countryside for few days to observe how life there works, what people do there for a living and so on. Also, be prepared to have dust everywhere and for the wild mosquitoes, they can be quite annoying.
