Desperate to escape city life?

The dream of staying in a small city or town far away from the pressures, demands, stresses, pollution, selfish individualism and cutthroat competitiveness of life in a metro is soooo tempting.The dream holds out the promise of living in simplicity,without trying tooo hard to be better , smarter, richer and savvier.The idea itself seems as delicious as a warm chocolate cupcake. But how practical it is for most us to manage to achieve it with our livelihoods being restricted to cities and I truly don't know how much of this dream will hold good and deliver.Those of us who have lived in cities all their lives often tend to romanticise the small town life and forget that we are pampered creatures who are used to certain conveniences and ways of city life which we may find hard to give up. But that doesn't mean that the need to escape from the frustration of our surroundings, live more authentically without pretensions is not real.To be able to do that in the same existing environment means that we have strong emotional, intellectual and spiritual strength to be able to deal with the never ending onslaught of demands made on us.Its easier to escape to physical solitude to get some control over the stresses as compared to living in the madness of it all and achieve a modicum of psychological space of peaceful perspective on your life.