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A woman who gave up her stock-market job to open a rural CrossFit says the idea of a slow-paced life in the countryside is a myth

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman who gave up her stock-market job to open a rural CrossFit says the idea of a slow-paced life in the countryside is a myth ...
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Rigid gender roles are prompting women to leave rural Japan

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...
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24-year-old American lives on $1,700 a month in the Japanese countryside, pays $238 in rent: 'Things are a lot cheaper out here'

While working as a teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, Lexi Smith, 24, found herself dreaming of seeing more of the world and living a simpler life. "I wasn't quite loving the school system from having an ...
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Rigid gender roles are prompting women to leave rural Japan

Members of a university kanto club perform in Akita Prefecture, Japan. Tradition and religion dictate that only men are allowed to be sashite or pole carriers. Anthony Kuhn is NPR's correspondent ...