I wish technology could go away and we all go back to living like this

Did you live like that during your childhood?

That’s a hot wife

They look a heck of lot more healthier than the typical American family.

What part of their lifestyle is low-tech? They live in a well-constructed, durable wood house, they have cultivated the land around it, they have modern amenities, fresh strawberries, everything a human could need.

Which tech guru promises you fresh strawberries? I guess Bill Gates might, but he's a fraud anyway. He don't know jack about growing strawberries, no matter how much land he buys.

Western "tech" would want them to have an Alexa controlling the lights and other silly crap. That's not tech

I mean, you possibly could live like that if you really want to. Do you live in the US? The option would be to move to a rural area, get into homesteading, permaculture, try to live a natural life. You could grow as much of your own food as possible and rear chickens. A lot of people do it.

Apologies if you're trapped in some kind of situation where you can't do that (caregiving responsibilities nearby, etc).

If you can't move, I guess you could try to incorporate aspects of that kind of lifestyle into your life wherever you are. So grow a herb garden in a window, if you have a balcony use that, go to a communal garden or allotment. Change your diet to all natural products, learn more about cooking, get into canning your own food or making pickles. Buy more plants for your home and spend as much time outside as you can. Limit your time online. Get rid of a smartphone if possible and use a dumbphone. Get a job in nature.

Also just want to say that's a tourism video so the reality might not be exactly like that, to put it mildly.

You can live like this if you want to. First steps, just get rid of as much tech as you can. You don’t need home Internet, streaming services, etc. That eliminates a fair amount of cost and stress. Do more low stress exercise like walking to pass the time and read books for entertainment.

Got a suburban yard? Then you can do some vegetable gardening. Join a local CSA or hit the farmers market. Get a chest freezer and buy protein in bulk. Learn to cook and bake.

Ditch the gym for good old fashioned body weight exercises and calisthenics.

Get to know your neighbors. Host gatherings. Go to church. Avoid malls. Drive a reliable vehicle with minimal tech. Stop chasing trends and clout.

Essentially, these Russians are just living like Americans did 80-100 years ago. Consumerism is a disease. Technology is not a cure. Where we have gone off of the rails is that the technology that was supposed to make our lives better and easier became another way to brainwash us into buying stuff, settling scores, and seeking shallow validation. Life isn’t easier today, just much faster and with greater pressure to accumulate things and then show them off. That’s why we are so stressed out and divided.

That’s it? A family cooking and gardening in the summer?

I was expecting more. That’s easy!

Get a library card.

get books on cooking and gardening.

Follow those steps and turn off the screens.

I’ve lived in 7-8 states all with different climates and with some work you can garden anywhere.

Check out land in Oregon outside of a major city. No one lives in Oregon! Land is cheap, water everywhere. Gardening there is the easiest thing in the world. Literally throw seeds on dirt!

Weird wish for someone that works at Microsoft. Guess what, this is YouTube even this family is pretending to be more happy than they are. Just like all social media. You yearn for a time and situation that has never existed.

You mean a family cherry-picked for a photo in a laudatory article looks better than average elsewhere? No … really?

You make a great point. Our tech gives us things we don't need and never asked for.

We have so many "updates" and "apps" that are considered great breakthroughs but are actually just trying to compensate for the otherwise crumbling society.

We never needed this stuff and never asked for it.

Having a non-toxic house (chemicals, asbest., lead, radon, formald., etc.) would be a good start for most Americans. But instead we get apps.

Having good food made out of real ingredients would be great but instead we get a free refills, bottomless fries, and all you can eat shrimp poppers with ranch for $4.99.

Having a strong, fit wife and kids who aren't on their phones all day would be 1000x better than putting a million women into the porn industry and 100 million young men on the other end of those apps.

The trade-off was not worth it.

Yes, in the olden time things sucked, but they sucked and they were real. You had eight kids and three died. Your house was like 900 square feet but you owned 400 acres of land.

Now young people live in apartments and have no kids but they take their cats for walks on a leash with hopes of binge-watching some good shows when they get home. What kind of life is that?

I’m more of a 90s to early 2000s man myself. It’s so peaceful without a smartphone and social media. I still love technology, wireless stuff, and Bluetooth etc. but the smartphone has been kind of damaging imo

Yeah but then we couldn't communicate on this message board

You mean trolling?

No one’s forcing anyone to use social media.

Ha ha ha, the average life in Russia sucks compared to the US. You fell for an advertisement.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Phones, internet, social media enables more comparison, even of done subtly or unknowingly.