[CottonBall]

“So a lot of the information that is being sent out is saying the Ozarks of Missouri & Arkansas, or maybe the Appalachians.”

We decided on the Appalachians. And I’m so glad I did!

Although it is hard to find anything here in the east that is very rural - even far from city centers and in what you would think is in the middle of nowhere, there are houses. I guess that comes from being civilized for centuries, vs out west.

[The Duke]

A couple of years ago I relocated from the big city to a "Mayberry-like" small town in rural NW Tennessee. Around here newborns are brought from the hospital in camo pattern blankets, and they take their hunting, gardening and canning quite seriously. Driving around one sees at least as many Confederate flags as US flags.

I've got 40 chickens out back and 20 more under the lamp in the basement of my 100-year-old rural "mansion". My front yard is in the city, and my back yard is outside the city limits. As many people on my street have chickens as not, and my neighbors have sheep.

It's taken a lot of getting used to, but it's not a bad life.