7 Reasons a Small-Town Lifestyle Can Make You Happier

7 Reasons a Small-Town Lifestyle Can Make You Happier
Rural living offers more than beautiful vistas, it offers a slower pace of life that lets people be people.asife/Shutterstock
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Almost every time my wife, Heather, and I used to go on vacation, we’d spend time during the car or plane ride home going back and forth about how nice it would be to live full-time in the destination we had just visited. By the time we got home, we inevitably talked ourselves out of the idea.

Too hot. Too cold. Too expensive. Too isolated. Too big. Too small. Too ... whatever. No matter the destination, we came up with a reason why it wasn’t realistic.

Jay Harrington
Jay Harrington
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Jay Harrington is an author and lawyer-turned-entrepreneur who runs a northern Michigan-inspired lifestyle brand called Life and Whim. He lives with his wife and three young girls in a small town and writes about living a purposeful, outdoor-oriented life.
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