As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.
I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.
The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.
I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.