We also learned about the "downshifting movement" where professionals who had become dissatisfied with the "rat race" and chose to give up on suburban "consumer driven life" for a quiet rural simple life. Basically trade potential earned dollars for personal fulfillment and growth.


We spent the next 18 months INTENSIVELY planning, researching, reading, visiting, and looking for a place where we could have build a simple ecologically friendly, organic food rich lifestyle.