Benefits of “Spreading Out” and Having Nature Around You

With the advent of wireless Internet access, combined with cell phones and Internet long-distance telephone services, there is now less and less need for many workers to physically travel to work. Now many people can live virtually anywhere in the world, and still make a decent living. And that includes homes that are “off the grid” and yet maintain wireless Web access.

Indeed, now that there is less and less necessity for people to live in cities, there is little to prevent many people from moving to the country, where one can live “closer to nature” and also keep expenses lower. In places like the Big Island of Hawai’i, more and more people are electing to live independently. And it’s not always the “little guys,” living in small homes off the grid. The Boeing family of the U.S. mainland keeps an off-the-grid vacation home in Hawai’i, and as you might think, it’s far from rustic.

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