Hiking in the hills / mountains is one of the healthiest sports there is, unless you already have messed up legs. Or other mountain sports, but at least those I do have additional risks of injury or death that most folks would find unacceptable.
Not everybody has easy access to mountains, but then we all forge our paths through life and at least at certain points of life we have some wiggle room to choose where to spend the rest of it. Polluted big cities may (or may not) bring more wealth but there is a cost.
I look from my balcony on a large forest which is natural reserve, begins right in front of us. On the other side of the village there is a 15km band of vineyards on steep hills. I go up and end up in wild hills fully covered in pine forests and actually OK for winter sports (planning to do skitour there tomorrow morning). I go the other side and its 100km wide lake with crystal clear water, highly swimmable in summer. Highway is few km away, 100m lower.
Coming to city makes me realize the various not OK smells I didn't sense when I was living there. Not regretting the move (but sure as hell hoping some part of work will remain WFH so its not just kids reaping benefits of living on a more healthy and overall better place)
Not everybody has easy access to mountains, but then we all forge our paths through life and at least at certain points of life we have some wiggle room to choose where to spend the rest of it. Polluted big cities may (or may not) bring more wealth but there is a cost.
I look from my balcony on a large forest which is natural reserve, begins right in front of us. On the other side of the village there is a 15km band of vineyards on steep hills. I go up and end up in wild hills fully covered in pine forests and actually OK for winter sports (planning to do skitour there tomorrow morning). I go the other side and its 100km wide lake with crystal clear water, highly swimmable in summer. Highway is few km away, 100m lower.
Coming to city makes me realize the various not OK smells I didn't sense when I was living there. Not regretting the move (but sure as hell hoping some part of work will remain WFH so its not just kids reaping benefits of living on a more healthy and overall better place)