Call it a measured gamble. A group of Kansas natives had an idea in 2016 to move back to their home state, but with all the amenities they had found and enjoyed in faraway urban locales. Now seven years in, their bet is paying off in the small community of Humboldt, population 2,000, located two hours east of Wichita, and two hours southwest of Kansas City. “My wife and I were looking for something different,” said Paul Cloutier, a designer who grew up in Wichita but was working in the technology industry in northern California in 2016. “I remember asking myself, ‘is technology really making the world better.’” Cloutier is a partner and co-founder of A Bolder Humboldt, a dynamic group of people that states its goal as “reimagining and rebuilding our 165-year-old rural Kansas town for a new generation…”
Source: Hays Daily News