Because cities are not the best place to raise children safely necessarily. There are many points of view regarding all this and I can speak to some of them myself because I too, bought land in a remote place to home school my own older children around 1980 even though the back to the land movement actually started in the late 1960s. Our experience came when there were too many children at Sisson Elementary school that year so they moved the 4th to the 6th grades to the Junior High School. Immediately an 8th grader broke a 4th graders jaw because children that far apart in age don't necessarily get along that well if they are not related. So, in protest we removed our three children from school and bought land and moved remotely and used Independent learning modules to home school our children through:
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However, we also noticed that there are good and bad things regarding home schooling
one's children too. Over time, I saw how a suburban environment might be better over the
next 5 years than a too rural environment for raising children. A suburban life often incorporates
the very best of country living with the best parts of city living. Often there are better schools
in the cities and suburbs than in the country for example. Another problem if you are too remote
is that children don't have as much to do (even though gangs in big cities often are fatal to children there). So, trying to keep your kids alive to age 25 or 30 is a chore whether you live in the country or in the city. My cousin whose children are now 47 to 50 years of age said that he found the very hardest thing to do was to keep his 3 children alive from ages 18 to 25 years of age. I think this often if the hardest part of raising children too. So, I'm very grateful for example, that my youngest child is now 25 years old. This doesn't solve all problems of course but it goes a long way to keep your kids alive as adults.
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So, to answer the question in the title "Back to the land" movements are about quality of life and educated people who usually are more sophisticated tend to lead these back to the land movements that often start in cities and move to the country of whatever country they are in.
You need enough money to buy the land in the first place so this usually means people with a little money or some way to make money are participating in these back to the land movements.
However, because communes (even though many were short lived) were so much a part of the 1960s through the 1980s and beyond back to the land movement many people with no money at all often participated in the 1960s U.S. Back to the land movement.
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