The CEO from Texas that is working off a relative's farm on a hill to get better cell phone reception is but one person learning to adapt to the changes from Coronavirus. There is no limit to human creativity in all of this by the way. People will tend to migrate now away from cities where rents are high because there isn't the income to afford that to more rural areas where there is less chance of dying from coronavirus and rents are much lower. One of the almost sure ways to get coronavirus is to ride on subways or taxis or buses worldwide now.
Riding on Subways, buses or taxis or other public transportation is sort of like playing Russian roulette with a gun to your head lately. It's not if you get coronavirus now but ONLY WHEN (if you haven't had it and survived it already.
This reminds me of the "Back to the land" movement of the 1960s,1970s and 1980s. I was a part of this movement in that I too went to Mt. Shasta bought 2 1/2 acres (without electricity there) and built an A-Frame and saved about 60,000 dollars in Rent over 5 years time while living happily there with my wife and 3 kids from 1980 to 1985.
Then like now was difficult economic times with about 10% unemployment then. So, we took our savings and bought land for cash and then sold one of our vehicles (a 1971 VW Westfalia Camper van and built the house with some of that money and also logged some of the lumber from our land which was covered with Trees and still is. So, we built an A-Frame that could withstand 10 feet of snow without us there because an A-Frame doesn't need people to shovel snow off it if it is built right.
The most snow we got at one time was about 7 feet of snow. When there was snow we had to park about 1 to 2 miles away and then my wife and kids and I would put on our cross country skis and tow our food and goods to the house on a toboggan and leave our 1974 International Harvester Scout II four wheel drive parked wherever we could near our house. We lived 10 miles from the nearest gas station or store then and used Aladdin Kerosene lamps and candle lanterns with mirrors to see and read with and we heated the place with a wood stove my father welded up for me made from a water pressure tank on the house he and I built between Yucca Valley and Landers on Yucca Mesa in Southern California. By then he didn't need the water pressure tank because he had running water piped into his house on Yucca Mesa by then from the county.
Before he had water piped in we had a 1200 gallon tank at about 10 feet high at first with gravity feed pressure to the old 1946 Spartan Trailer that looks aluminum like an Airstream trailer and then later to the house we built there. Then he added the water pressure tank to increase the water pressure in the lines for watering his organic garden there of fig trees, grapes and tomatoes and other veggies he grew organically there.
So, finally he welded up a wood stove for me to use in out A-Frame and we installed it next to a huge old clawfoot bathtub we bought. and then we bought a wood burning cook stove so we could bake bread and cakes and other stuff in the oven there. It was a good life with amazing animals like Deer and bear and fairy diddles (flying squirrels) and the like there and golden mantle Ground squirrels too.
And when there was snow we would go cross country skiing as a family or with friends nearby or in the city of Mt. Shasta and ski a lot from Bunny Flat down to 7 mile curve until the snow melted. It was a very good life from about 1980 to 1985 until we went back to the SF Bay area to buy another business and to get our kids into Junior High, High School and college. Now, all three kids have college degrees and are married and in their late 40s.
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