Speaking of Cottage Core... I actually had to look the term up.
I find it amusing like all Nostalgia-based movements. Like "Wanting to go back to a slower, simpler time, no Social Media in sight" as one article explained it.
To put it bluntly: How to tell that you have no experience living in the country nor any knowledge of history without actually saying it out loud!
"Back to a simpler time", when you starved every second year because the harvest went wrong, your kid died of Cholera, and the cottage you are living in, as well as it's small fields, actually is a rental. You pay the rich guy in the Manor House by doing labor and giving him a third of your yield every year. Regardless if you are starving or not.
Cottage Core: Brought to you from the people who think Austen's books were documentaries. :wink:
Yes, living in the country can be nice, now, with good infrastructure, a nice wifi system, modern day pesticides (even organic ones), and you might only grow produce on the side anyway, driving 40 minutes to your office every day as your day job.
(I know; my parents have been living in a cottage since 1994, but I remember the horror in my grandma's eyes when they said they were moving there full time, because to her, cottage life meant poverty and sickness).
