In It, Not Of It

On a coffee in the South, content kale, and whether where you spend your week is giving you the perspective you think it is

I had coffee with a friend in the South who moved to their home state five years ago. They still work for a large Silicon Valley company, still travel constantly, and still technically keep California hours. And my friend told me they are calmer, better at being a parent, better at their job, better at everything, because they are not in the thick of “it” anymore. People hear where my friend lives and go, wait, you like living in that [RED] state? They respond, “Yes, it’s incredible.” Then they go and do more civic work in their hometown than most people I know do in the city they live in.