A friend of mine decided to shake the dust of the city off his feet last year and migrate to a more rural area. Reflecting on the move, he seemed surprised at how much he’s enjoying the change. My takeaway from our conversation was that his life was fresh and new now that he had left the problems of the city. Having a community of reasonable people to live among wasn’t so bad either. My friend isn’t the only one who made such a change in the past year or so; Minnesota Public Radio highlighted the trend in a recent story titled “Ready for a change: Couples go all in on small-town life.” The article describes how James and Katrina Ball uprooted their children from the Cayman Islands to settle in the small Minnesota town of Battle Lake at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic so they could be near …