What age did you move to the country?

October of 1947, I think........Went off to Purdue(that's still country, isn't it?) and then lived as a surburbanite until 1983, when we moved here. It's sort of country and I call it home.

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41 and 44!

Was born at home, way off in the country, so I guess all my life.

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Is this why Mr. Rogers said, "Will you be my neighbor"?

Grew up in the country but could always ride bikes to one-little-league- diamond towns.

Similar to jassar, we have not gone yet, but have a plan to move in about two years. We'll be 52 and 45 when we go.

BTW - the blog looks good. Best of luck to you!

Did it twice.

First time was in the early days. Moved around a bit (small town stuff in Southern Oregon) before my parents settled out in the brush when I was ten.

Left for college, and spent the next fifteen years or so in one town/city or another, and then returned to the brush (on the other coast) in my mid-30s.

I loved the convenience of town life, but when you;re used to space, you're used to space.

I get the underwear at the laundry line bit. When we were looking at property down here, I gauged our options using the "pee test" ... If I couldn't find a spot to pee, near the house, where I couldn't see a neighbor, then they were too close for comfort, and we moved along.

I'm 43...hoping to make it before my 44th B-day next year. Not sure, though. BUT of the people I grew up with most think I'm already "in the sticks", lol. I grew up in the suburbs of a BIG city (starting begging to move the the country by the time I was 6). Now I live in a small town....closer, but not the country....but we can smell the cows some days, lol.

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Grew up there, left at 18. Lived happily in cities for years. Moved back at age 48. Living happily in the country.....

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Birth through 9 years, on a small farm in TN, then I came here (AL). Lived "in town" except for a couple of years here and there until I was 40 when we moved out here...been here ever since.

Wouldn't trade it for anything!

52 hours old they tell me.

Lived in a small down with woods all around then in a smaller town with woods all around in college.

Bought the place I live now in the country when I was 27. Paid off when I was 40. I'm 53 now.

Lived in the country off and on till I was 18, joined the Air Force, moved away and finally at 50 and 1200 miles north from Texas, just bought 5 acres, with house, two mature cottonwood trees (one half dead) and 4 acres of undeveloped land with about half of that with a mix of young Aspen, maple, pussywillow, and loads of sand burrs. Need to sell a couple of houses for the commission to buy a decent truck.

3rd GRADE! Been in the country mostly, ever since!

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I must have been at least a week old. Back then mothers weren't allowed out of bed for days, and kept in the hospital to rest up if they had other kids. I was the youngest of 9.

Still live in the same county even though I lived for a time in both big cities in Alberta.

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All my life...and I hope I die in my own bed.

Hank Jr. used to sing a song about sending him to Hell or New York City, 'cuz it would be the same for him...well, I'm kinda that way about any city...cannot stand it, won't tolerate it.

I was around 7 the first time my parents moved rural. It was two of the best years of my childhood. The second time I was 12 and they bought a rural home which became home until I was 29. After 22 years in pergatory AKA town, I met my future husband and found myself a country girl this time for good.

We bought our homestead 4 years ago at the ages of 55 and 58 and our only regret is that we didn't do it sooner

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Well beyond the age of consent..

5 years ago at 41

39 years ago at age 34 my wife and I bought a 40 wooded parcel with a drilled well and electricity to the property. Nothing else on the place but oak and hickory trees. We've since surveyed it, fenced and cross-fenced it, cleared about ten acres and have a large garden area, four dozen fruit trees, seven outbuildings, a concrete floored shop, and three separate dwellings all of which house family members. It's been a busy almost-forty years.

From conception

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