Why are you assuming it’s retirees? Yeah, we have a lot of those, but they’re also bringing their children with grandkids. Have a lot of people who are working from home, people wanting to homestead, people wanting to homeschool on farms, people wanting to get out of cities, people wanting to leave states with high taxes and restrictions, etc. So basically those scientific tests about what people value as QOL may have to change because what people are wanting are changing.
Off topic but this reminded me of last Thursday’s Summer Reading program at a local homestead where they have bought up a lot of acres of old stripped out coal mines that was basically dirt and rocks like those desert pics y’all like. They have in a few years turned it into good pasture land and raise Scottish Highland cattle, Alpacas, etc. They have solar power and well water. Loved it
