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Sick of politics? Move off the grid

Founded in 2019, the residents are less political refugees and more people who want to be left alone

| Megan Nielsen, Deseret News Medical emergencies are handled by a mix of volunteerism and luck — one shareholder is a registered nurse and performs house calls throughout the community, and another, a midwife, has delivered three in-home babies. Some residents vote in local elections, though not all; Utah’s universal vote-by-mail system, a boon to many rural communities, meets its match with Riverbed, where the United States Postal Service does not yet deliver mail. Shortly after returning to urban life, Thoreau published his chief political essay, “Civil Disobedience,” that marked him as a small-L libertarian, allergic to heavy-handed government and far preferable to self-reliance.

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