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10/21/06, 09:32 PM
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For me, life is more about living than money. What amount of money is enough to give up your life?
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10/22/06, 05:15 AM
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I'm afraid it wouldn't take one single dime to get me off of our place . . . .or rather, to get me off of this place would only take breach of bank payments to which the bank would escort me off!!!
I'll die here if I have anything to do w/ it!!! =)
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10/23/06, 10:14 AM
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I never lived in a city, hopefully never will, but for enough money, say, 500,000 a year, I'd be tempted to try it for a while.
Can I live in the burbs?
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10/23/06, 12:17 PM
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Location: ME
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I am reading this thread, thinking man you guys are the reason I RAN out of NC when I was 18. There is more to life than dirt!
What if civilization goes the other way? What if the farmland is protected and you are told to live in cities? The way the dems are going, they will force everyone into socialism, tell them to live in communal groups and only let a few people farm. Will you die then? I was just saying before I am flexible and can live anywhere. I am only living this way because of the poisons in the grocery store.
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10/25/06, 07:31 PM
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Home is what you make of it. My husband and I have learned to be happy wherever we are, rich or poor, city or country. While we love homesteading more than any other way of life, we are also enjoying our life in the RV. And of course we have 60 paid for acres whenever we wish to return to it.
Living in an RV allows us to be together while we chase the big bucks... and we don't have to live in a city, we park wherever we find a nice quiet place nearby in the country  .
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10/25/06, 10:10 PM
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Location: Carthage, Texas
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For me to give up my place and move to the city.... hmmm... there'd be a few conditions...
first....I'd have to be recognized as Lord and Master of the Universe, He Who Must Be Obeyed, without hesitation.... no red lights, stop signs, peasants should bow down before me... yada yada yada...
seeing as my #1 requirement won't ever fly, reckon I'll just have to stay put in my own little kingdom...
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10/26/06, 10:38 AM
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I wouldn't do it for any amount of money, but I may do it next year for love ...
Of course, I will still have to have a patch of land in the nearby countryside to escape to ... 
It's funny to think I'll be living in the suburbs again, though, after spending most of the first half of my life trying desperately to escape them! 
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10/29/06, 10:52 AM
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I wouldn't do it for any amount of money, but I may do it next year for love ...
Of course, I will still have to have a patch of land in the nearby countryside to escape to ...
It's funny to think I'll be living in the suburbs again, though, after spending most of the first half of my life trying desperately to escape them! |
 Ok, after the initial shock went away, at least you'd be in the burbs. Can you live without cows?
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10/29/06, 10:55 AM
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Location: Northern Minnesota
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Originally Posted by Cabin Fever
If I hear one more person call "soil" dirt, I am going to blow a fuse!
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I'd have to change my bumpersticker to say "soil worshiper"...
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10/29/06, 01:19 PM
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I don't care how much money is offered, we wouldn't take it. We've lived in the metropolis (Dallas/Ft Worth) and we're not about to do it again...no way, no how.
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11/03/06, 07:24 PM
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I thought of this thread again as we fought our way 75 miles from the city. I posted about it on my blog, if you are interested in reading about it http://backtobasicliving.blogspot.com/
There is NO question in my mind that I would not give up one square foot of our homestead at this point. It is our dream, and I can't WAIT to get out there full time - and I envy those of you who are there now.
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11/04/06, 03:14 AM
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tryna be His
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: In a small town Western ILL
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Right now, I'm living in a dorm on a college campus in Western Illinois. I HATE living in the dorm, and cannot wait to get out of here! I miss cooking for myself, and having my own bathroom. I live in a town of twenty thousand people, half of which are students, and I love it. My hometown is about forty thousand, and not near as nice a place to live. I have found some very wonderful people with which to associate myslef, and back home I couldn't make friends to save my soul. I am quite happy to live in a smaller town, as that's as close as I can afford to get to the country in my current state. My goal is to find a place here in town someplace to have a yard, so I can grow a garden next spring. Wish me luck!
Michelle
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