Many people romanticize the idea of picking up everything they have and moving to “the middle of nowhere” to escape the hellscape of modernity. As someone who lives in the middle of nowhere I can tell you with confidence that the illusion of escaping societal rot by relocating to a different place is just that: an illusion. The decay is present everywhere and no single location is immune to its effects.
The stain of modernity is ubiquitous.