No smartphones, no WiFi, no....vacuums?In a world that’s increasingly more reliant on cell phones and smartphones, residents of one U.S. town manage to go about their days without using a single mobile phone. And they like it that way. Just west of Washington D.C. lies Pocahontas County. Home to 8,000 people, this is where the National Radio Quiet Zone is located - 13,000 square miles where mobile phones have absolutely no signal whatsoever.
Residents in Pocahontas County live their lives much like most of us did decades ago - without smartphones or any other type of wireless technology. Even vacuum cleaners are banned in the area, as their motors can interfere with the telescope’s operation.Not all modern equipment is banned though, and internet is available as long as it comes from a cable and not a wireless router.This inadvertent social experiment shows that people can still interact and live full lives without having their heads buried in their phones all day long. What’s more, there are residents who have purposefully moved to the area to escape the technology-filled lives they used to live and turn to a more quiet way of life - and they say that the experience is an overwhelmingly positive one.
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- Option 1
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