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I know the feeling. I grew up in what was a small town in central NJ where everybody knew everybody. Until Urban Sprawl came from big NYC developers. Buying up and buying out families land to put in a sprawling development of McMansions and people still buy them today. So there will always be the group that thinks they are better off than you.
I don’t understand how the bolded sentence relates relates to the rest of your post. Who thinks they are better off than you?
Well, there are many posts in various threads from working class rural people complaining about how big city people move to a rural place and build big expensive homes, and then complain about the 'local yokel' mindset and their way of doing things; and yes, many of these people seem to that one's financial net worth is the sole determinant of how "better off" someone is. (And this last part also applies to some NOT wealthy people, too.)
I don’t understand how the bolded sentence relates relates to the rest of your post. Who thinks they are better off than you?
People that buy bigger houses than they need to prove to the world "we are doing great" while putting themselves in massive dept. with an Escalade in the driveway. The people that can maybe afford all that by stomping on people to get it, like putting their name on everything they own.
People that buy bigger houses than they need to prove to the world "we are doing great" while putting themselves in massive dept. with an Escalade in the driveway. The people that can maybe afford all that by stomping on people to get it, like putting their name on everything they own.
How do you know how much home one needs??
How do you know they are putting themselves into massive debt??
"The people that can maybe afford all that by stomping on people to get it" ?????? So people who have money have stomped on those without???
People that buy bigger houses than they need to prove to the world "we are doing great" while putting themselves in massive dept. with an Escalade in the driveway. The people that can maybe afford all that by stomping on people to get it, like putting their name on everything they own.
In our township the grid power goes down at least once every month. We are used to it.
My well runs on my solar power system.
Though my wife wants us to also have a bison hand pump.
We have well water and septic system. When power goes out, we have 10 three gallon water jugs for washing dishes by hand, drinking and cooking (wood stove) water. Landry can be done at a laundromat and we have a porta potty and camper for those needs. No problem. A little inconvenience but wouldn’t trade it for city or suburban life.
We have well water and septic system. When power goes out, we have 10 three gallon water jugs for washing dishes by hand, drinking and cooking (wood stove) water. Landry can be done at a laundromat and we have a porta potty and camper for those needs. No problem. A little inconvenience but wouldn’t trade it for city or suburban life.
You don't want city sewer service or a water company to deliver tap water to you?
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.
We have 6 acres of which most are trees to dampen noise, keep the wind at bay, for habitat, for privacy as you mentioned and because we like trees. We have some nice 150 year old cedars, hemlock and for trees. The neighbors seem to enjoy cutting theirs so we just plant more like fast growing red cedar and native birches.
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