“Thanks to the ubiquity of the Internet, many professionals can work from home in the countryside while their main
office remains in the city”(paragraph 2)

How does this sentence connect to the author's central claim?
Use textual evidence to support your response. Write your
answer.

From the passage:

And yet for all the appeal of cities, the 2018 census shows
that small towns and rural communities are experiencing
significant growth. There is a trend of younger adults, in
their thirties and forties, moving back to their small
hometowns or striking out on their own in the country.
Thanks to the ubiquity of the Internet, many professionals
can work from home in the countryside while their main
office remains in the city. Some of these trendsetters are
leaving their city jobs behind to try to earn a living by
farming or crafting goods by hand.

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explanation:

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

the use of “as” in the example to draw the resemblance. some more examples of common similes are given below. common examples of simile. our soldiers are as brave as lions. her cheeks are red like a rose. he is as funny as a monkey. the water well was as dry as a bone. he is as cunning as a fox. simile introduces vividness into what we say.

it should be

hard work gives a person a sense of satisfaction; likewise, it to pay the bills.

so the punctuation is not correct.