I left a big paycheck in Tokyo to start over in rural Japan. I didn't just want a new job — I wanted a new life.

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Levi Pells in the Japanese countryside.
Levi Pells felt more fulfilled in the Japanese countryside than he ever had in his Tokyo office.

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I'm a millennial who lives alone in a tiny house in the countryside. I don't feel like I'm missing out on city life.

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The exterior of a cottage in the countryside in the Netherlands.
Nikky de Graaf lives in a cottage in the countryside.

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I bought my first house in rural Scotland at 22. Housing is affordable in the countryside and I love it here.

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Painting of Glen Coe, a Scottish mountain.
Simran Kaur loves countryside living in Kilmarnock, Scotland, where she moved after studying in Glasgow for four years.

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