Will Americans flee the cities and repopulate rural America? (buildings, shed, communities)

[Kansas Twisters]

Originally Posted by blisterpeanuts

I would so love to live on 100 acres far from any city. But my wife loves the city equally as much!

I CAN'T RESIST, sorry. GREEN ACRES is the place to be!

[Kansas Twisters]

Originally Posted by augiedogie

I hope you are all right. I'd hate to see our lovely small town and rural county ruined with more people.

The problem might not be the people so much but the silliness they bring with them from larger cities?

[Dave_n_Tenn]

Originally Posted by Kansas Twisters

I CAN'T RESIST, sorry. GREEN ACRES is the place to be!

Farm livin' is the life for me
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside

[nowhereman427]

Originally Posted by happily retired

wait till you people actually look at what 50 acres, 20 acres, 5 acres actually looks like. I had vision of grandeur when we started looking- then i saw the barns and 2-3 tractors and pickups- then all that fence and the fact you would be a atv go barrow sugar from your neighbor

then 20 acres omg i am not moving that and dont want to lease it out to someone who gets rights to be on the property

then 10 and home depot does not have a mower big enough

then 5 - hell i will be cutting grass and weeds all day every week - and what about the weeding - nope i dont want another pig, chickens, quail, turnkeys been there done that

and i am not a save to the dirt

THOSE acres look worse when they are on fire.

[hotkarl]

Say what?
20 acres of mowing?
Who clears 5, 10, or 20 acres of land and makes it all lawn?
I want acreage as a privacy buffer. Keep all the looney toons away. You have the acreage but you only need to clear maybe a 1/4 acre or so right around the house. If that.

[nowhereman427]

Originally Posted by hotkarl

Say what?
20 acres of mowing?
Who clears 5, 10, or 20 acres of land and makes it all lawn?
I want acreage as a privacy buffer. Keep all the looney toons away. You have the acreage but you only need to clear maybe a 1/4 acre or so right around the house. If that.

That's right, you need acreage to keep distance and space away from others. It all goes together.

[nalabama]

But you also always want clear fields of fire. Assuming you have a defensible position.

[pikabike]

Originally Posted by hotkarl

Say what?
20 acres of mowing?
Who clears 5, 10, or 20 acres of land and makes it all lawn?
I want acreage as a privacy buffer. Keep all the looney toons away. You have the acreage but you only need to clear maybe a 1/4 acre or so right around the house. If that.

Same here regarding buffer space. We have 40 acres but do not mow any of it. A little bit of weedwhacking to trim tall native grasses right near the house is the closest it gets to mowing.

There is plenty of other land work to be done, in the form of clearing deadfall, brush, and weeding invasives. But no mowing.

If someone grows HAY to sell commercially, yep there’s lotsa mowing!

[nowhereman427]

Originally Posted by nalabama

But you also always want clear fields of fire. Assuming you have a defensible position.

tHIS IS TRUE.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by nalabama

But you also always want clear fields of fire. Assuming you have a defensible position.

There is also a track from band Big Country, Fields of Fire.