what started your interest in the subject “hunting to change of places”?
Lola Kretova: I wasn’t planning to do this topic, she found me. Found when I changed the place of residence from Moscow to a village in the Taldom district. With me in the city and moved my psychological practice. At some point I started to think about her as a psychologist, as a researcher. The question that interested me: what lures the residents living outside the city?
I had a conscious decision to drastically change their place of residence. The moment came when I began to weigh life in a concrete high-rise building, I wanted to play, at will. About 15 years ago decided it was time to leave the streets, each by itself, and join spaces, where there is solidarity. So I was in Chekalin. It’s a small town, cozy, commensurate with the person. And what are the motives of other people changed the lifestyles from urban to rural?
Lola Kretova: If you ask people why they are leaving the metropolis, often hear pragmatic explanations. Talking about the fatigue life in cheloveinik about noise in the city and as a counterweight – about the fresh air and quiet in the village. But this is the first layer. If the person that called, to talk, then talking about something else. The desire to feel like themselves and not a programmed being, in which man turns into a metropolis. Of happiness to work in your garden, watch as he changes. Just look at the clouds on the field.
Yes, it is, perhaps, the most important in Chekalin I feel free. Free to choose classes – you can sit at the computer, and can Tinker in the garden, walk in the woods, sit on the high Bank of the Oka. Free from political passions. In the city when meeting with acquaintances, friends, the conversation must move out on political topics, and to me they are boring. And here about politics and do not remember.
Lola Kretova: Leaving the metropolis, a person loses the familiar environment of their communication, and this may be one of the major constraints of his suburban life. Gradually lost social connections that are important to his work, projects, the person becomes uninteresting town. The metropolis as a soulless mechanism embeds the person in his process, he becomes a cog. And who wants to feel like a cog? Leaving metropolis, people are going to get the opportunity to be themselves. That is very important: former residents of big cities are characterized by optimism, creative and social initiative, they often try to do something good in a new place. Until recently, there was a belief that the earth pulls people age. In part it is, Prishvin said: “in humans there are two moments of joy: one youth to leave home, the other in old age vernutsya home.” Yes, there are cases when a move young families. On the other hand, children who moved for the city residents there is rarely interest in rural life are drawn to the metropolis. Rural life is not able to meet youth educational interest.
And rightly so young that he was leaving! Small town, not to mention the village, limits the development of a young man, narrows the horizon. I believe that the young have to live in a big city – it gives a lot of impressions, emotions, knowledge. But you reach a certain age, and realize that people want more quiet, contemplative existence. If the person is still quite capable of working, then before him another problem – work. Yes, get fresh air, sense of freedom, but if it is not possible to make a living, much is lost.
Lola Kretova: In most cases, those who decided to leave, carefully think through how they will develop life after moving to a small town. If a person has confidence in a country life, his work is not a priority – it will somehow solve.
Quarantine powerfully emphasized the benefits of living in a small town or village.
Lola Kretova: it was Interesting to see how different Moscow and suburban residents survive the quarantine. The Muscovites had a lot of debates about whether there is virus or not, ironically, over fears, angry because of the impossibility to conduct a former way of life. And country resident other excitement: where to get seeds, how not to pick up urban plague, worried that the cold may have slowed the growth of cucumbers and zucchini. To dispute, irony and boredom is not reached.
Special theme is. Thanks to quarantine, I had the opportunity to see how my daughter Anya. The working day began in her 9 hours to 7 or even 8 PM. She prepared documents and participated in online meetings. And at the same time could take a break, soak up the sun. I think companies should consider this experience. Maybe some employees to transfer to udalenku.
Lola Kretova: In Western countries, working remotely until the quarantine was spread. But prospects there are uncertain: employers satisfied with employees who are on remote, then go back to a proven scheme – the office. If you appreciate the work on distance during the quarantine, some people worked like crazy and very quickly ran out of steam, while others were not able to build stand alone operation. For many fields to work online demanded more power than office work. But still, it seems to me, desire to change their lifestyle from urban to rural with years will grow. Employers will take account of this proceSS.
