Chuck Bryant

They want a simpler lifestyle.

They want less technology.

And we'll talk a little bit more about, you know, kind of some of the people that tracks because it can get very interesting.

Other people can get annoyed.

most people there probably just, you know, that's where they've always lived.

And so that's just the deal.

It's a way of life.

I think in 2016, there was an Italian graduate student named Gioffredo Collini,

who traveled there to study, like, the people and were like, you know, what's it like for the people that live there?

And he found, and this is a very small-scale study, it wasn't, like, the most robust scientific thing, but I think just walking around and studying and talking to people, he found that people seem to have lower anxiety there.

But it's different, you know?

They use maps.

They use payphones still.

Teens there do have things like iPhones.

They can't use them for texts or calls.

So there was one teen that said it's basically a clock and a calculator.

So I imagine calculator watches are very much in style still.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, that's one thing Anna mentions sort of at the end of her research was like, there was a while there where the Gulf was really big.

Like when, you know, for the longest time, it was like, oh, things aren't that much different.