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For $2 million, I'd sell.
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10/15/06, 09:28 PM
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Fantasy69maker, Hillsidedigger, Farmgoddess, toomb68, Tallpines....
I think some of you are missing the point of my question. I'm not asking how much would you sell your homestead for. I am asking how much would you have to be paid to live in the Big City.
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10/15/06, 09:34 PM
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no amount of money would make it worthwhile. i don't care for money that much. there might be something else you could tempt me with, but i don't know what it is. 
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10/15/06, 09:34 PM
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Metropolis? No way, not since the real Superman died... 
Seriously, I wouldn't want to live in town. I didn't want to be there to begin with, I sure don't want to move back. On a temporary basis, I could survive, espeically if I knew a bigger, paid off version may be coming out of it. But to move and never come back? Nope, I don't think so!
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10/15/06, 10:03 PM
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just shoot me...i mean it.
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10/15/06, 11:14 PM
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 NOTHING could get me to live in any city, I mighy consider spending a week there for say.........hmmm, forget it.
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10/15/06, 11:30 PM
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Once we make it out, we will not move back. We may move around but never back into hell's doorway (any metropolis without a way out quick)!
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10/15/06, 11:45 PM
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No amount of money could get me to live in a city. I don't even want to live in a town. Money isn't everything!
The only thing that could get me to live in a city (and it would still be with reluctance) would be if God showed me VERY plainly that that was where He wanted me to serve Him.
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10/16/06, 12:02 AM
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I'm on a farm, not exactly homestead but close. 
Money isn't the thing for me. A pile of it don't matter.
One could make it miserable for me so that I would want to move to a different farm. That is what happens around the 'Cities - or a big city. Rules & regulations, traffic, loss of markets, etc. One could do that to me.
But offer me money to just buy me out? What good would that do me? I'd just want to spend it on what I have - so why would I bother?
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10/16/06, 01:27 AM
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But offer me money to just buy me out? What good would that do me? I'd just want to spend it on what I have - so why would I bother?
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what he said...lol.
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10/16/06, 02:07 AM
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How coincedental. DH's bosses have bee trying to talk him into moving closer to commute into Seattle, then closer to the I-5 corridor. The last offer was a promotion if we'd move to Snohomish county. They offered to negotiate the pay raise if we'd agree to the move. To buy there what we already have here would cost 4 times as much. The company isn't willing to to pay us enough to live over there.
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10/16/06, 04:32 AM
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BasicLiving very eloquently stated what I've said many times. I know people who are living in a pressure cooker to make big money, dreaming of the day when they can retire to the country, have a few acres, a garden, some chickens, maybe some goats and a couple of pigs. My thinking is I'd rather make less money, and live my whole life in the country with my garden, chickens, etc. I was fortunate. My family lived this way when I was growing up, my wife and I started this life when we got married 24 years ago, and we wouldn't trade it for anything. There is no figure high enough to get me to move to a city.
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10/16/06, 06:11 AM
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I'd sell my homestead for, say, $300,000 but only if I could move to another homestead with similar qualities.....close to town, lots of land, no close neighbours.....not very likely gonna happen!
Would I move to the city? NO WAY! Not even for a million dollars! My horses are my life, I would NOT leave them behind! I suppose that sounds stupid, but some things are more important than money.
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10/16/06, 06:25 AM
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I read this question to Cale and he said, "What would we spend the money on in the city?" We seem to find plenty to spend it on here though!!!!!
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10/16/06, 06:36 AM
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I was just in Philadelphia a month ago. Nice city. It was fun to see all of the wonderful old buildings..the historic places..eat in little hole in the wall restaurants (GREAT FOOD) and be somewhere where there are obviously folks from many cultures and other traditions. Just sitting in the car while waiting for my son to pick up the tux's for the wedding.."people watching" was a blast!
I spent many wonderful years in Boston, and Portland, Maine..Saint Louis and Fort Worth..I LIKE big cities..fascinating places to visit.
Having said that..if someone walked up to me tomorrow and said,"Lesley. I'll give you a BILLION dollars tax free cash, but the catch is you'll have to select any major city in the world and take up residence in it for the rest of your life." I'd be very upset about that..VERY upset..and pray that none of my grown children would never find out that I said "NO".
As someone else already said, there's much more to life than money. I want to live mine on my own terms as much as I'm able. For me, that means living where I can hear the crickets at night..not sirens..Living where I can have a cup of coffee on my own porch and be in awe of the dew sparkling as if it were millions of tiny diamonds strewn on the grass..being able to watch a few hawks soar overhead..sleep with my windows open and not have bars on them..raise a few chickens and have my "garden on wheels" and a little orchard. Money doesn't feed my soul..nope.
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10/16/06, 06:38 AM
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Now wait a minute, folks. I would move back to NY. Or maybe a BIG southern city (Not atlanta) No west coast. For a few million. I would love to pay someone else to grow everything for us. Great. YOU muck out the hen house. I have lived in most of the big cities in this country, excluding the west coast. I loved it, no car to worry about, plenty of people to talk to, if 1 ticks you off there are 25 million others around. Walk everywhere, or take public transportation if it's too far. A "energy savers" delight. I would have to have enough to be able to buy all the natural stuff I like, non bleached stuff and organic food. And good water. This girl is too smart to drink city water.
I would lpve to live in Tokyo for a while, all those pretty lights and everyone fawning over me. (they love tall white women)
I don't mind concrete. I know how to deal with it so I do. I guess I learn to adjust.
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10/16/06, 06:40 AM
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I am with you, Lesley, except the Portland thing.....waaaaaaay too many liberals, I would go postal after a while.
But Philly is nice. Lived there for a few months in '90.
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10/16/06, 06:44 AM
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No amount of money could get me to move back to a big city. Or even a little town. After living in Kansas City, Nashville and Los Angeles, I equate Big Cities with self destruction (suicide in a way) and would rather take a gun to my own head. It'd be a lot quicker and without the fear.
Better half turned down a job paying 6 figures a couple of years ago because it was in Memphis. I have to bribe myself just to go into town (pop 3500).
Now, since I'm such an anti-social person (at least according to my adult kids) someone could pay me to move farther away from civilization and I'd be more than happy to oblige.
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10/16/06, 07:06 AM
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We live on 80 acres of hard scrabble rock, on a ridge, at the end of a dirt road- 2 and 1/2 miles from the nearest paved road. No mortgage! This is heaven on earth. Why would any body (including myself) accept any amount of money to leave heaven? If you're not in Heaven then it must be Hell! 
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10/16/06, 07:42 AM
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Here's MY deal. You pay me a 100 billion dollars. I go to the fringe of a major city that is a ghetto and BUY all the broken down crack houses and then I'll pay to tear them all down. Crush all the brick. Burn all the debris. Let it all grow back to nature's way. Then after 10 years I will move there!
Is it a deal?
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