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Originally Posted by Taz22
It sounds like you found the perfect place and good for you.  The thing about here, is I didn’t do enough due diligence on the area first and there was no way to know how my spouse would feel about the rain. He’s really miserable and all winter long, he looks out the window at the rain and sighs.
Your situation sounds perfect, but everyone doesn’t get perfect on the first or tenth try. Bucolic or pastoral, yes, I get it. Unfortunately, you can’t live on views, other things like neighbors or drive distance come into play. I agree with you about tract housing, sometimes the houses are so close together, they may as well share a roof. It’s a shame to see nice land being built on. They’re building another warehouse few miles down the road, a payday loan and more gas stations will probably follow and what was pretty farmland will go downhill fast.
I have a few ideas about moving my chickens, even bought some wire dog cages to put them in. I recently found out they’ll need a health certificate for the new state. The horses would be hauled by websites where you put in information on your current and future state and number of horses, then get bids from haulers. I even thought about going to the future state to house hunt, bring the dogs and board them there, so we wouldn’t have to deal with moving them later on.
Yes, definitely serious about the horses, the youngest is twenty, the oldest is thirty five. I’d be too worried about who and where they’d end up to ever think of selling them. Anyway, I’m happy to PM you and bounce other ideas off you and also hear what you think. Advise is much appreciated. If I could find someone to split the driving, it would be great. Spouse and I will be taking separate vehicles, he’ll drive the truck, I’ll probably rent a van or RV to bring the birds. |
My knowing this land was “it” was predicated upon a few things:
1. I was raised on the dairy farm my brother now owns.
2. I have been so very fortunate to travel to many states in my lifetime and have been gifted with the ability to mentally place myself somewhere and ask me if I could envision living there for a long time.
2.1. I have lived in several places (including SoCal’s Low Desert area
, short term out of necessity.
3. This was the last piece of land we looked at before we had to fly back home. The realtor couldn’t find the road, lol. Soon as I laid eyes on the place, I told the realtor I didn’t have to walk it but we did anyway. We were signing papers for the bare property in a Denny’s, minutes from the airport with not much time to spare, lollol.
I knew what I wanted and what it should feel like to my senses. To this day, every time I have to drive to town, coming home still “feels like the first time” as the old Foreigner song goes
4. You are a terrific horse mom to have got your horse to 35. He would probably be better served with you taking a full week and hauling him and his buddy cross-country yourself.
I lost my coming 27 yr old TWH to major colic in February, which left my 28 yr old TWH the Last Man Standing. Thru a stroke of Fate, I found a long 26 yr old retired show jumper, Dutch Warmblood, but he was 2,100 miles away in SoCal. The lady paid to have him shipped here for retirement via KC Transport (google them).
Except for some issues from a long show jumping career, he is a strong healthy horse. He arrived here March 31st and boy was I glad for my 60+ years with horses. He still ended up losing ~75#, his ulcers flared big time and he went completely off his feed.
He is doing great now, but my point is that he rode three days (with one overnight off the van) on an air ride van and he still ended up in a bad way. Had I not known what to do and had I not had the cushion of the sports medicine vet and the vet/chiropractor to help me —- well I doubt I would have lost him but his recovery time would have been a lot longer and more miserable than it was.
Moving cross-country is a lot to ask of a 26 yr old much less a grand fella of 35. If you could do the driving and take a full week, or longer if he needed it, and bring his buddy with him, I feel like he would make the trip much better
PM me and I’ll tell you where I’m at, vets, farrier’s, hospitals, stores, doctors, etc.
. I think you might be better off, in terms of purchase, looking at foreclosures if you folks can do some work yourselves.
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