Only peasants long for home

What is best: City life or country life? Too many conflicts, discussions, and election campaigns in recent years have been about the cities against rural areas, ordinary people’s lack of faith in the metropolitan elite, and the metropolitan elite’s lack of understanding for the lives ordinary people live. Are Kalvø is tired of city people and country people not understanding each other. The skepticism is mutual, and it’s cultivated.

To find which life is the best, Kalvø will live for one month in Europe’s largest city, London, and one month in Norway’s smallest municipality, Utsira. In London and Utsira he will test various activities that are important for living a good life and find out where it is easiest and most enjoyable to carry out these activities. Where, in London or Utsira, can you get help immediately if you are ill? Or if you need to fix something at home? Where do you first make contact with people and talk to your neighbors? Where do you have the easiest access to a proper restaurant meal, a good concert, a swim, fresh air, a nice talk, total peace of mind, a secret poker game, wildlife, minorities, homebrews, new friendships, a partner, local humor that no one else understands, essential groceries, or the mayor?

Who is actually the “elite?” Who are the ordinary people? And do we really want to be ordinary? And where do we have our roots? When are you truly yourself? Where are you actually at home? And is any of this really important? A truly funny book, and a book that makes you wonder if it might actually be possible for you to live somewhere completely different – and actually like it.