Cities often bring "Sensory overload" which is sort of like if you are a soldier on a battlefield which brings a type of "City type of "almost PTSD that you can find in people which is addicting in it's own way.
However, it often is a "Death Knell to the Soul" of that person.
So, when I retreated from Los Angeles and San Diego Counties to Mt. Shasta for the first time in 1974 I realized that this was where I wanted to live in my life.
However, it was always a struggle to make money this far from San Diego, Los Angeles County or the San Francisco Bay area because I was used to this environment to make money whereas out in the country you have to usually make a whole lot less money.
However, that is a two edged sword too because even though you might make less money the quality of life can be so much better that you really don't mind making much money living somewhere really beautiful and remote from Big City Life.
However, I found also that I could live too remote like I did when my family and I lived 10 miles from the nearest Gas Station or electricity or phones East of McCloud, California on 2 1/2 Acres while we home schooled our kids for 5 years which was an amazingly wonderful experience.
So, as time went on the kids got to be (the oldest 12) and he wanted to go back to school so we bought another business in the Greater SF Bay area and except for moving to Hawaii for a couple of years and then Mt. Shasta for two years ending in 1992 I have lived mostly in the SF Bay area for many different reasons. So now, my life and ability to travel is quite nice even though I don't live full time in Mt. Shasta anymore. So, now I live on the ocean since around 1999 when we bought our last house in the Bay area.
The point is: "my senses developed the most the further I was out in nature for 1 or more months (sometimes) three months at a time without TV or Phones available then or electricity.
I found this incredibly healing and is one reason why I'm still alive at 77.
By God's Grace
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