Thousands of young, urban Mongolians are trading in their city lives for new homes in the countryside, bucking a demographic change in recent years that has seen hundreds of thousands of people giving up on traditional nomadic customs to pursue a more grounded -- and financially rewarding -- life in the city. Chagdgaa Battsetseg, a former skincare entrepreneur who now herds goats and keeps bees in the countryside, and livestock herder Khurtsbaatar Enkhbilig, say they made the shift amid severe air pollution and traffic woes in Mongolian capital's Ulaanbaatar, adding that they were also driven by a desire to provide a healthier future for their family. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES