Comment by gchamonlive

Oh I'm doing a similar movement. I'm a city boy and I'm trying to find a nice piece of land to buy in the countryside so I can plant stuff and raise chickens

> time in my life has passed and I’ve come to view them as maybe overhyped

It's overhyped for sure! But everything nowadays is overhyped. People treat technology as a panacea where it's just an extension of ourselves. If the self isn't balanced, nothing will be fulfilling (the meanings of a balanced self and a fulfilling experience I'm leaving intentionally open, because it varies from person to person).