So youre thinking about going country? Its time to abandon the frenzy of city life, drop the G from the end of your verbs and trade your Gucci for goats. You long to be in a place where business is done on a handshake, where your backyard is bountiful and where folks welcome you with warm apple pie and a smile. You want the simple life.
Over 1.6 million people moved to rural communities during the first five years of this decade. Several stayed. This migration continues reinforced by dozens of national and regional periodicals presenting sanitized country chic to millions of armchair rednecks. Having read a myriad of books and magazines about goin county, you are convinced it is for you. Why not?
Editorials immerse you with prose of serenity found. You are infatuated by the ideal of carvin your own nitch in the wilderness, collectin the morning eggs and whittlin on the porch swing each evening. Throughout the country, gentlemen greet women with the tip of a hat and a polite, Howdy Mam. You long to raise your children in a community where graciousness abounds while folks commune with nature in perfect harmony. With each flip of the page of County Cool Magazine...