I think I might welcome this one, as long as she's not a libtard.
Posted on 12/03/2009 8:51:57 AM PST by FromLori
In June, 40-year-old Shane Dawley and his 36-year-old wife, Rhonda, uprooted themselves and their four boys from their suburban Atlanta rental home and bought an old five-acre farmhouse in Ogdensburg, Wisc. Their goal: Flee the rat race and adopt a more self-reliant lifestyle amid the troubled economy.
While urban and suburban real estate is still generally under pressure, the rural market is holding up better in many areas, thanks in part to buyers such as the Dawleys. Sometimes dubbed "ruralpolitans," these city and town dwellers are looking at land as their new safe investment, one they hope could prove more stable than their jobs and 401(k)s—and provide a better lifestyle.
Motivations can vary, but typically there are three groups: young people buying land as an asset or investment, with vague hopes to live on it someday; exurban commuters who have jobs in big towns or cities but want to escape the sprawl; and back-to-the-land types who want to dabble in hobby farming. While the 76 million-strong baby boomers eyeing retirement represent the largest ruralpolitan segment, they're being joined by a growing contingent of 20-to-early-40-somethings freshly imprinted by this recession's pain.
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Great...the liberal loons will be invading our space soon.
Ping
Wouldn’t Diana like to read this? I can’t recall her freeper id, it’s something like, “Diana from Wisconsin” but I don’t recall her exact moniker.
A 5-acre farmhouse? That would even be big enough for my family! I wonder how many bathrooms it has?
Sadly, in many parts of the West, it has already happened.
rural living ping
Paragraph 1: Name of family/individual, Name of City, What family/individual did.
Paragraph 2: Family/Individual's did this because (enter motiviation).
Paragraph 3: Statistics indicating that this behavior is (enter percentage)increased from (enter previous time period.)
I looked at it as good because my property value is holding up and I think they would find the neighbors not willing to put up with that crap anyway.
are these folks gonna live by my motto “i have a shotgun, a shovel, and 30 acres. do not annoy me.”?
Farm livin’ is the life for me...
I doubt that many of them will last for the long haul.
I would think she would I wonder if it is
Diana In Wisconsin
Not sure that is just what pops in my mind having noticed since I live in Western Wisconsin myself.
If you show em the shotgun I would hope so lol
That reminds me, I need to order Mad Libs for Christmas gifts!
And yes, I’m tired of the formulaic, and usually pointless, “journalism” too.
Good article yesterday
“Don’t Californicate my state!”
I think I might welcome this one, as long as she's not a libtard.
I doubt that many of them will last for the long haul.
They will say, "We left the big city because of high taxes, regulation and crime and moved here because everything is so much better...Oh, wait, my neighbor has a pig on his farm, that smells...we need new regulations to make sure he can't keep pigs near people's houses...and a new board to determine what other regulations we need...and I'd like to go to the zoo...What, there is no free zoo?...We need to raise taxes to fund zoo...and a theater...and a theater company...and a symphony...and we need free housing for poor people and soup kitchens and...wait...why are all of these poor people coming here and causing crime...this place sucks...I'm moving somewhere else!"
I have to admit, I come from a really long line of white people who did just that. We gave the financing of the revolution a try, decided we were ready to “move on” and headed for the land grant that paid us for our services. We only came out to fight in the wars and retreated to the hills. That was then, and this is now.
Appealing as that lifestyle might be, consider this. You can find the most remote retreat imaginable and have a meth lab next door. The Hatfields and McCoys down the gravel road AND there are no shortage of nutburgers who still shoot their wives and girlfriends and blow their brains out in the woods down at the country mom and pop confectionery.
Your children can wind up marrying some inbred imbecile who has never worked an 8-5 lunch-bucket job, much less finished college. Folks, there's no place left to hide. We either face up to the fact we have problems, suck it up and deal with them or it won't be safe to live anywhere on the planet. We've already seen how the isolated, ignorant, superstitious Afghanis and Pakistanis, et al. live and what they've managed to produce. Let's all grow up and make it work where we are.
You'd be amazed how many tomatoes, cukes and peppers you can get out of a patio garden. Maybe we can keep the Easter chickens we got for pets and raise our own eggs.
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