If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now Quotes

“Here there is space for families to play, grow, expand. Space that doesn’t exist where life is circumscribed by commutes and high costs and the presence of thousands, of millions of other people. If you keep a fish in a small crowded tank it will grow up stunted and tiny, never attaining its true natural size. Part of me believes that people are the same way, that we need space, room to explore and grow, a certain distance from our neighbors.”
― Christopher Ingraham, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

“One thing that we, as a society, don’t fully acknowledge is just how difficult, how taxing, how utterly exhausting and draining it is to care for little children. It is work, in the purest, rawest sense of the word.”
― Christopher Ingraham, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

“the prairie is a lot like the ocean. It’s broad and vast and flat and has a way of making you feel tiny, insignificant, but in a good way.”
― Christopher Ingraham, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

“The town was full of strangers, which is a key difference between a place with 13,000 people and one with 1,300. Social science literature talks a lot about third places, like coffee shops and libraries, that serve as community focal points. Places not home, and not work or school, where people can gather and feel like they belong.”
― Christopher Ingraham, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

“People living in cities pay thousands of dollars to psychiatrists, spiritual healers, and meditation gurus to learn how to cleanse their minds and achieve just a few moments of inner peace. Dick does it every year for a week in November for no more than the cost of a Minnesota deer license.”
― Christopher Ingraham, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie