Leave the city. Buy a piece of land in the Mekong Delta, ten acres with a river running through. Build bamboo houses low to the ground, gardens, a kitchen that runs on wood fire. Teach people how to ferment fish sauce, how to wait for broth — real work that takes time and cannot be faked. Bring the old women down from Saigon to show the young ones how it’s done. Escape isn’t running. It’s digging in, deeper than Wi-Fi, deeper than rent.
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