The effect of (im)mobility on the way we live!
When I go on holidays, I try (and usually succeed) to get completely disconnected. No internet, no phone, no nothing… During my last trip to the Maestrazgo mountains in Spain, the effect was even stronger. There I could hardly connect to people. Not that the people there were not friendly or nice or interesting… there were just no people.
Most of the time when talking about mobility (this time in the meaning of going from one place to another, not the mobile network meaning), the real topic is immobility: the time spent/lost to get to and from your destination. But Maestrazgo is different. There it is the possibility to move that is the real topic. As soons as people could, they moved away from a region that had not been able to adopt to a changing economic landscape…
When walking through one of the deserted villages, I wondered if there will ever be an inverse movement? Will we be able to work from home in a more dispersed fashion, spreading the people & avoid spending time in traffic jams or on overly packed trains?
Looking forward to the evolutions that could make this possible :) In the mean time, you can have a look at www.go-mobile.be to know what your options are to go from A to B!
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