Rural Bashing?

[Mace Canute]

.......Preference is preference. There is no need to justify or validate it.

This is the best reply in the whole thread. :thumbsup:

 

[check]

I've never heard of anything quite so crazy. To the man - all my friends wish they could live in the country as I do.

For us it is different. We live in the big city, but we go to the cottage in the country very, very frequently. My city friends and acquaintances all consider us to be very very lucky do you have a place in the country!

 

[Larry Caldwell]

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[Redneck in training]

My wife is a (former) city girl. When we moved to our property in 2004 she was quite apprehensive. The night is dark, the coyotes come to check on you, there are all kinds of noises and critters in the woods. When we bought the land it was overgrazed and kind of baren. We walked on the top of the ridge and I told her look in the valley. This place has great potential. Thirteen years later we made it into a beautiful place. We planted several thousand trees. Many of those are big enough that our house is not visible from the road anymore. She put a lot of hard work and soul in the place. If I would tell her to sell it and move to the town she would say: Over my dead body.
Like one of my good friends used to say: If you can walk from your house naked and pee from your front steps then you can claim that you don't live on just acreage but you live in the country. And my wife add and have no tan lines.:laughing:
And another thing is if you live in the country you can always go to the city but if you live in the city you can't go to the country unless you own land.

 

[Birdhunter1]

I had a relative that did that for a while until I convinced her that I live like a king and in fact I am King on the farm whereas she lives under the king and has to get permission, permits, tags or whatever before doing or owning anything. However at my place I had chickens roaming the yard and eggs in abundance, a large garden full of fresh vegetables and a freezer full of organic meat that never once saw a commercial feed yard, butcher shop or whatever feed supplements people complain about these days.

I convinced that relative I lived like a king then I was labeled a racist, bigot, sexist and likely to beat my wife because I was a gun owner....... happy to say I disassociated with that cousin 5 years ago and publicly no longer claim relation.

 

[MountainWoods]

Rural Living

My wife is a (former) city girl. When we moved to our property in 2004 she was quite apprehensive. The night is dark, the coyotes come to check on you, there are all kinds of noises and critters in the woods. When we bought the land it was overgrazed and kind of baren. We walked on the top of the ridge and I told her look in the valley. This place has great potential. Thirteen years later we made it into a beautiful place. We planted several thousand trees. Many of those are big enough that our house is not visible from the road anymore. She put a lot of hard work and soul in the place. If I would tell her to sell it and move to the town she would say: Over my dead body.
Like one of my good friends used to say: If you can walk from your house naked and pee from your front steps then you can claim that you don't live on just acreage but you live in the country. And my wife add and have no tan lines.:laughing:
And another thing is if you live in the country you can always go to the city but if you live in the city you can't go to the country unless you own land.

I like this. Only when the leaves are down can you see an outbuilding at our next neighbor to the north, and from our pond (about .2 miles southwest of our house) you can see a neighbor house about .5 miles to the south. No other neighbors are visible at all in any direction. We can walk out of our house in any direction for quite a ways before anyone would see us with the leaves down. Even further (about 1/4 mile east) during other times.

We have 187 acres with the house positioned nicely for privacy. We didn't build it that way -- we are the 3rd owners. But I'm glad it was built where it is. Elbow room!

 

[Soldier415]

A lot of my friends could not understand for the life of them why I would move from built up CA to rural VT.

My reply is usually "Out here I can ride my lawnmower around naked while firing a rifle into the air and yelling MERICA! and there is no one to care"

 

[Industrial Toys]

Like was said, preference is preference. What some people brag about, others couldn't care less about. I know people that need theaters, restaurants and night life. Not talking raccoons! I'm hungry at the moment and going into town. Not a decent (and cheap) place to eat breakfast!

I must admit, I'm a bit jealous of seeing pickups in the city with their perfectly clean frames and under bodies. Unlike mine, living miles off the beaten path on a gravel road.

 

[PJSprog]

My Wife and I both grew up in the same small city (40K-ish), but also both had relatives on farms. The property we live on now was her grandparents small farm. My Mother's side of the family were all farmers, so I spent most weekends outside of the city. I always envied that life style, and spent most of my adult life wishing I lived in the country. I finally moved to a small town (800-ish) at age 39, and to her farm when we married 4 years ago. It took me 47 years, but I finally made it.

Most people, when they find out where I live, seem to impart that same kind of envy. I work in deepest, darkest, North St. Louis City, and even the people here usually respond with some manner of, "Oh, wow, that must be really nice living out there." We had a band BBQ last summer with my acoustic trio bandmates, and it was the first time they had been out to our place. One guitar player looked around after a couple of hours and said, "OK, now I get why you live way the f*** out here. This is awesome."

Beyond some good-natured ribbing from my best friend - who likes to make Green Acres references whenever something farm related comes up - I don't know that I've ever heard anyone actually bashing our choice of rural living.

 

[k0ua]

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