The Devil Wants You to Move

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Lifestyle, Health & Family I am online looking at a house for sale at 45 Wetzel Road, just outside the old town of Macungie, Pennsylvania. The house sits chockablock on a little-used tertiary road and is a remarkable historic stone home set on approximately 6.7 acres. It has "exposed stone, massive timbers, wide-plank floors and deep window openings [that] speak to the home's origins" way back in 1793.

How it works

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What to take from it

I say this is the devil speaking because such speculations feed into the natural American wanderlust, which is not necessarily a good thing for us or for our families. Contact Us Tap into The Wellspring daily Spiritual direction, encouragement, and edification in your inbox every weekday. It is in the Lehigh Valley and is surrounded by mountains—fishing, hunting, skiing.

Example or evidence

• Together, we make a tribe committed to rebuilding and preserving, protecting, and projecting our families and the great Greco-Roman-Christian West through the ages.
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• Rod voted that he would live in a small number of states all below the Mason-Dixon line.
• His comment box became a charming give-and-take about readers' love of their state, region, town, but also about other states and regions and towns, speaking of our natural wanderlust.

Details worth keeping

It is not cheap, but neither is it out of reach at $749,900. The internet is full of such longing for houses and property far away. This first came up on my friend Rod Dreher's Substack.

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