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You betcha.
Moved from a 900-sq-ft home on 1/3 acre to a 2,000 sq ft home on 60 acres.
Went from making $80,000 a year to $25,000. BUT - we can afford to live much better here. I have my horse, cows, chickens, and I just went to the butcher and bought a neighbor's home-grown, 240 lbs of completely processed pig for $283. That's hams, roasts, bacon, ribs, and sausage for a whole year. They also threw in 50 lbs of backfat from several pigs that I am rendering for lard (mother nature's Crisco) and I have already sold some of that lard (although most of it I keep). We'll pay less for the steer we took in to be processed - another 250-300 lbs of steak, roasts, short ribs, brisket, and burger, all grass-fed, all from our own property and hand-raised. Beef for a year. Bought 125 fruit and nut trees from the DNR to start our orchard - at $.85 apiece. Am raising my own vegetables and chickens. We have a symbiotic lifestyle; everything feeds everything else; the manure feeds the plants, the plants feed the animals. We cut our own firewood for the woodstove for free to help get it off of other peoples' property so we don't spend on heating.
There's no traffic, there's no hustle and bustle, there's no one wanting to spend hours and hours of my life that I'll never get back, trying to get me to do for them. Out here, we do for US - no one else. Next year we're going to start raising bees. We trade what we have and what we can do for what we need. The water is pure and sweet, the air is fresh and clean, the people are few and friendly, the kids are polite and well-mannered, funny and fun and intelligent, and everyone minds their own business.
Most people can't or won't live like this. Our old neighbors and friends still insist that we'll move back. We won't. We eat better, live better, and choose not only what we do with our time but with whom we associate.
Sounds like a little piece of heaven to me! What you've described is how I grew up. Loved it then and would love it now. Closest I've come, as an adult, is five years off the grid in No. Idaho. That was quite the adventure and I'll never regret doing it.
Yes, no regrets on making the move. If I hadn't, the nagging "what if" would always be a question in my mind. Did it, done it, experienced it ... next.
You betcha.
Moved from a 900-sq-ft home on 1/3 acre to a 2,000 sq ft home on 60 acres.
Went from making $80,000 a year to $25,000. BUT - we can afford to live much better here. I have my horse, cows, chickens, and I just went to the butcher and bought a neighbor's home-grown, 240 lbs of completely processed pig for $283. That's hams, roasts, bacon, ribs, and sausage for a whole year. They also threw in 50 lbs of backfat from several pigs that I am rendering for lard (mother nature's Crisco) and I have already sold some of that lard (although most of it I keep). We'll pay less for the steer we took in to be processed - another 250-300 lbs of steak, roasts, short ribs, brisket, and burger, all grass-fed, all from our own property and hand-raised. Beef for a year. Bought 125 fruit and nut trees from the DNR to start our orchard - at $.85 apiece. Am raising my own vegetables and chickens. We have a symbiotic lifestyle; everything feeds everything else; the manure feeds the plants, the plants feed the animals. We cut our own firewood for the woodstove for free to help get it off of other peoples' property so we don't spend on heating.
There's no traffic, there's no hustle and bustle, there's no one wanting to spend hours and hours of my life that I'll never get back, trying to get me to do for them. Out here, we do for US - no one else. Next year we're going to start raising bees. We trade what we have and what we can do for what we need. The water is pure and sweet, the air is fresh and clean, the people are few and friendly, the kids are polite and well-mannered, funny and fun and intelligent, and everyone minds their own business.
Most people can't or won't live like this. Our old neighbors and friends still insist that we'll move back. We won't. We eat better, live better, and choose not only what we do with our time but with whom we associate.
Nope. I would avoid moving back to the hometown any day and wish I would've thought it through better.
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