One day, I was working remotely from my small house in a neighborhood I didn’t like, looking through my window at cars crawling by through heavy traffic on the freeway, and I realized that my life didn’t have to be this way. I’d been putting up with a city I didn’t want to be in for far too long. My job is fully remote. Absolutely nothing was keeping me within commute distance of an office. I could live anywhere in the country that I wanted.