I live in the city of Chicago. We have owned a second home in a planned community on an apple orchard in rural Michigan for a number of years. Suddenly during the pandemic lockdowns, a number of Chicago families who have homes there relocated during the shutdown. The advancements of zoom and accessible high speed Internet enabled this transition. A new lifestyle window opened as people discovered they could actually work, attend online school and live successfully from a rural location offering enormous lifestyle benefits over the inner city. On any given day, you will see Amazon trucks on the community road, delivering travel-friendly products. Food isn't one of them. Imagine what would happen if you could add this capability to communities like this? Lower cost of living, safer environment, outdoor lifestyle, hot food, and no deficit to city life save access to some cultural experiences? Transformational. Whole new frontier of lifestyle options....
Hi Robert. I came to the comments section to leave a very similar post! I recently moved from the suburbs to the more rural Catskills region of New York, enabled by the things you mentioned: high speed internet, improved cell service, plenty of FedEx/Prime delivery trucks, and - of course- a work from home lifestyle.
Most of the people moving here are from Brooklyn and NYC and I'm sure we'd all be down for some drone-delivered lattes! We lack the numbers for GrubHub/DoorDash/UberEats to operate here, but I'm sure the local food service establishments would love an opportunity to get more food to more people without having to expand their physical footprint.
I even wonder what it looks like to expand this service to local farms and producers. CSAs that delivery fresh produce on-demand... count me in!
Booke if you let this ferment for a minute all of a sudden you can see new local markets emerge that can be satisfied by our insatiable requirement for convenience. Or 'I want it now'. The closest pizza place to the house in rural Michigan is eight miles away. Delivery is laughable. What would happen to the Pizza business if they could deliver in minutes anywhere at any time of year. It's wild. Without the labor costs and trucks, delivery fees won't become such a two-way punishment like the GrubHub's layer of cost to consumers and operators. On the Internet end, Elon Musk's Starlink system is going to redefine everything for lifestyle choice. Super high speed at the fraction of current costs available literally anywhere with no punitive contract??? Geez.
I live in the city of Chicago. We have owned a second home in a planned community on an apple orchard in rural Michigan for a number of years. Suddenly during the pandemic lockdowns, a number of Chicago families who have homes there relocated during the shutdown. The advancements of zoom and accessible high speed Internet enabled this transition. A new lifestyle window opened as people discovered they could actually work, attend online school and live successfully from a rural location offering enormous lifestyle benefits over the inner city. On any given day, you will see Amazon trucks on the community road, delivering travel-friendly products. Food isn't one of them. Imagine what would happen if you could add this capability to communities like this? Lower cost of living, safer environment, outdoor lifestyle, hot food, and no deficit to city life save access to some cultural experiences? Transformational. Whole new frontier of lifestyle options....
Hi Robert. I came to the comments section to leave a very similar post! I recently moved from the suburbs to the more rural Catskills region of New York, enabled by the things you mentioned: high speed internet, improved cell service, plenty of FedEx/Prime delivery trucks, and - of course- a work from home lifestyle.
Most of the people moving here are from Brooklyn and NYC and I'm sure we'd all be down for some drone-delivered lattes! We lack the numbers for GrubHub/DoorDash/UberEats to operate here, but I'm sure the local food service establishments would love an opportunity to get more food to more people without having to expand their physical footprint.
I even wonder what it looks like to expand this service to local farms and producers. CSAs that delivery fresh produce on-demand... count me in!
Booke if you let this ferment for a minute all of a sudden you can see new local markets emerge that can be satisfied by our insatiable requirement for convenience. Or 'I want it now'. The closest pizza place to the house in rural Michigan is eight miles away. Delivery is laughable. What would happen to the Pizza business if they could deliver in minutes anywhere at any time of year. It's wild. Without the labor costs and trucks, delivery fees won't become such a two-way punishment like the GrubHub's layer of cost to consumers and operators. On the Internet end, Elon Musk's Starlink system is going to redefine everything for lifestyle choice. Super high speed at the fraction of current costs available literally anywhere with no punitive contract??? Geez.