Discussion: why do people want to live in the wild?

Your exam question asks you to discuss why people choose to live a life in nature. In your discussion, you are required to use at least two of the following phrases: for a start, despite, though, on the one hand, still, in contrast, for instance, consequently.

You are required to use one of the following texts as a starting point for your discussion: “The Wild Route: Leaving Work and Home for a Forest Life” by Sky Dylan-Robbins and “Wild at heart: how one woman and her husband live out in the woods” by Stefanie Marsh. The two texts present the stories of people who chose to leave modern life behind and choose an alternative lifestyle in nature. In this way, they also present different arguments for living in the wild. 

For a start, the texts argue that modern life often causes people a lot of stress and dissatisfaction. In “Wild at heart: how one woman and her...