Bill McKibben - Middlebury, Vermont (pop 8,545) Stephen Pinker - Boston (pop 655,884) Shannon Hayes - Warnerville, New York (the census doesn't know it, but Wikipedia says it's between Cobleskill, pop 4,678, and Richmondville. pop 2,513) Sherry Turkle - Boston Everyone thinks the way they live makes the most sense. I know someone who maintains Wordpress sites for a living. She has an English degree. Used to be a technical writer, but no one thinks a good manual is worth paying for anymore. When a problem an English degree and google can't solve comes up, she phones a friend, pays obscene consultant money, and bills her client for it in turn.We were noticing something interesting yesterday while dealing with HostGator (again) and the fact that there's a giant airgap of knowledge between "I have a Wordpress website" and "I can harden my website against Slovenian portscanners" and that airgap is largely bridged by people who are overeducated and overqualified. Nobody got a CS degree in order to keep their girlfriend's brother's cousin's website online, but there's a lot of that. And maybe if you live in West Virginia and maintain clients across eight time zones, you can make it work.