I feel that everyone is talking about the glory of the countryside and how it should be re-branded and given the glory it deserves. Countryside itself has not lost its magic. The people just moved to city after their jobs and then the rest of the countryside people could not stand to be alone and be left behind of all the reasonable development due to small population. It is a shame. We don’t have enough population to populate the countryside so well that there could happen some sort of development. I hope that some day we will have a flood of people who come not as refugees by wars or economy but for the environment. We have so much nature and beautiful countryside that should be utilized but no-one can really do anything because nobody wants to live there.

Countryside definitely offers options for living. You can build your own house or if you don’t want to spend years in struggle, you can also buy a ready house package (in Finnish: talopaketit). I feel that everyone is struggling with the idea of doing something in the rural areas. By doing something I mean something to improve our nature and keep the rural areas up to date. Lately I have also noticed that a small group of people has started to move towards countrysides to work from there. The only problem in that is the poor internet and cellular connections. For most of our work, that is crucial. I could easily move to the countryside if I were offered a ready house package and a good spot of land somewhere where there is water around. For me to move, it would also require a high speed internet connection and a flawless cellular network. I’m not being picky but these are the things I need for work and that is a fact.

But now when even thinking about countryside, I immediately have some reservations. I realize that I might not fit in, there might be problems with the connections in future and what if I don’t find ‘the right one’ there? These are all questions that one that is planning to move to the countryside has to deal with.