Bankers In The Boonies, Goat Farms In The City: A New Topsy-Turvy World?

2 goats stare at camera as they stand on a green rooftop, a city in background
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Bankers in the Boonies? This writer first encountered it as a marry-in to the poor relations of a cottage-owning family. We got a snippet of holiday this year in a charming ‘shack’ (barely improved since the 1890’s) on Canada’s Georgian Bay. That enjoyable windfall happened because the London, UK based, banker, part-owner didn’t make it to spend time partying with a gang of old friends while working from ‘home,’ with only water access, thousands of kilometres away from his nominal place of work in a world financial capital.

For more on the topsy-turvy impact of COVID-fuelled advances that remote working may have on entire entire populations, here’s a story from Australia that details some of the up-ending possibilities that are emerging between urban and rural.

Airheads booking BnB’s in Australian beach country may seem unlike topsy-turvy — more of an excess of the same old, same old. But buried in the following article are the seeds of a potentially greater upheaval.

Will electronic commuting turn those so-far enduring mediaeval relationships between town and country upside down? The answer may turn on the issue of productivity. Can city folk do “work” better from a remote country location? Investigate further by ignoring an Airbnb red herring and focusing on those moving permanently to a rural paradise, in WORLD CRUNCH: How Airbnb Created A Homeless Crisis In An Idyllic Australian Town

Goat farms in the city? Turning the stick topsy-turvy and grabbing its other end, what’s the future of hard-scrabble farming to make ends meet in a hollowed out future city? Read more in iNews: Meet the urban farmers raising goats in the middle of Bristol: ‘Why wouldn’t every city in Britain do it?’