If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded The Commuting Life For A Little House On The Prairie

"Christopher Ingraham did what so many of us have fantasized about: After visiting Red Lake Falls, Minn. – the least attractive place to live in the United States, per an obscure government ranking he wrote about for The Washington Post – he said goodbye to big-city life and moved his family to the heartland. Of course, his spot in the heartland features temperatures that shatter thermometers in the winter then thaw frozen dog poop in the spring, turning his front lawn into a stinky mess. But after reading his book, which weaves high-level datasets with hilarious stories from on the ground in Ingraham’s new life, I could see the possibility of Red Lake Falls, and other small towns like it, making way for more coastal migrants soon."