09/03/04, 08:28 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: maine
Posts: 555
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nc mountians
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Originally Posted by brural
I live on the east coast in a suburb. We have 41,000 people in a city of 15 sq. miles. It's AWFUL. Everything is very expensive here. Hubby works 5 minutes from the house and I'm able to be at home.
I haven't been down town in 3 months - I go shopping every six weeks and and try to do errands less often.
On a positive note, we do have a lot of "services" here - hospital 4 minutes away, good schools, local Y and the ocean. But hubby's money comes in and goes out.
I have a veggie garden and am going to expand that next year and I'm baking everything and working on not buying any processed food. I'm also thinking before I buy things that have been "marketed" to me.
We have a plan to pay the mortgage down and save until we figure out where we want to move rural and also what we can do to earn money. I'm thinking of starting a soap business - art soap. Hubby is still trying to figure out what he wants to do, he'd like to do something different. Because we have kids, we do want to be rural, but within a reasonable distance to a hospital. I know I have to have electricity(hubby's interested in solar) and a flush toilet. I don't want to live in a development - NOT! I don't want a "fancy" house just one in a quiet area with lots of land.
If anyone knows anything about the following areas, I would love to hear:
Mountains of North Carolina
Blue Ridge area of Virginia
Montana
We want to live in a climate that is slightly warmer than the northeast at winter, but NOT hot, not lots and lots of people. We like to kayak, so water would be nice - lake o.k.
We will be taking our first family vacation next year and have thought about going to montana - not sure - have to check cost. We decided that where ever we go we wanted it to be a place we are considering moving.
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**** Iam from madison co NC in the mountians. land prices have gone up alot, and the econimy is bad, the stores are closing down and people who have lived there all there lives are selling out to rich retires. It is a place of great people who know how to survive on the bare side of life. I bought a farm there in 91 and made 4 times it's worth in 2002, but now the basic living expences are so high the people who bought my farm are thinking of selling. A bulldoze operater with 10+ years exp is getting 8 dollars an hour. a loaf of bread is 2.20$ THis is some 30 miles from the hospital, if you go deeper in the mountians it is harder to find tillable land and few people who can afford to buy any thing you make because they make every thing for themsleves. you should see the mountians, it is the most wonderfull place to be but very poor.
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