There are a limited number of go-to tropes writers use to describe how urban dwellers and rural dwellers experience life differently. There is always an urban-rural “divide”, a “fringe”, a “gradient”, or even a “continuum”. One was the dual of the other. Conditions are different. Urbanites have access to more services and opportunities but have to put up with less space. Rural dwellers get more space but are more exposed to population changes, fights for access to services, poor broadband, changing house prices, impacts of tourism, and land-use or cover flow changes.   Covid, combined with a housing crisis and an…

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