Top Ten Reasons to NOT be a remote worker in a small town.
Dear Dad, I'm sure you are thinking, 'I told you so.' I realize when I squint angrily down the street, smoking a cigarette and drinking terrible coffee, I am doing my best Bob Carrico impression. Yes, we regret moving here. I know I used to brag about low price of beer, the fresh, clean, cheap, stigma-free tobacco, but that's about all this town has going for it. NPR featured a quaintly written, inoffensive article about younger remote workers moving to small towns to avoid the high cost of housing in big cities: Remote workers . They failed to point out a third of noir movies from the 1940s start out with this very premise. I have compiled a top ten list of reasons not to move to a small town: 1. You are still the same asshole you were in the big city. I think alcoholics anonymous call moving often, 'Going Geographic.' Moving wont fix your problems, in fact it makes most of them worse. As light as you p...