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A 55-year-old traded in his corporate job and 3,500-square-foot house for a tiny home in a village at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Despite a post-move cancer diagnosis, he says he's never felt freer

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Blue Wells' tiny home in South Carolina. Courtesy of Blue Wells Blue Wells and his wife sold their Atlanta home and moved to a tiny-home village in South Carolina. Shortly after the lifestyle change, he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Despite his diagnosis, he says he's freer and happier than ever before. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ronald Wells, who goes by Blue, about moving into a tiny-home village in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, and his life there now. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. I moved into a 600-square-foot solar-powered...
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