Rural Bashing?

[4get gto]

This is what I see when I step out the front door. I snapped this (poor quality) pic just a minute ago for the sole purpose of this thread. I wouldn't trade this for a cityscape for anything. We love it here!

Edit: those are the Catskill Mountains.

If you were a spiritual man you look in the distance and see how far you can really go. Love it!

 

[Garandman]

We live in the city, though truth be told it’s a neighborhood of single family homes near Boston Harbor.

Rural folks don稚 bother, but Suburban dwellers make me crazy and the folks who commute into Boston for work probably eat their young. :dance1:

When we bought the place in NH, I said to the RE agent, ?So, you going to make fun of the new people from Boston, once we leave?

?Lord no! There?s a long list of locals ahead of you!? :laughing:

 

[WoodChuckDad]

A lot of what you are hearing from people who talk down about your lifestyle is fear. They know one way of doing something. If you move them out of their comfort zone they have a visceral reaction. When they talk to you about where you live and what you are doing they apply that situation to themselves and they have to shoot it full of holes to validate themselves. They fear change. fear making a mistake. fear living away from people.
I work in the city in an office. Everyone I work with knows that on the weekend I am in the mountains, working on my farm. They ask what I did each Monday because they are interested. It isn't something they want to do but it is different and interesting. They says it sounds like a lot of work....they are right. It is nonstop work. And the most gratifying thing I have ever done. I flew my drone last weekend and got pictures of my homesite, after it had the footings put in for my house. I made that the background for my work computer......and had a coworker stop by to see the picture....a mountainside with a clearing and a house. While shaking his head, he said "You are in the middle of nowhere."
I just smile. I did the city living for years. Then I "escaped" to the suburbs, only to slowly discover that I was in a carefully crafted prison.
When I am in "the middle of nowhere" I feel free.

 

[shaeff]

If you were a spiritual man you look in the distance and see how far you can really go. Love it!

Thanks!

 

[MountainWoods]

Middle of ...?

A lot of what you are hearing from people who talk down about your lifestyle is fear. They know one way of doing something. If you move them out of their comfort zone they have a visceral reaction. When they talk to you about where you live and what you are doing they apply that situation to themselves and they have to shoot it full of holes to validate themselves. They fear change. fear making a mistake. fear living away from people.
I work in the city in an office. Everyone I work with knows that on the weekend I am in the mountains, working on my farm. They ask what I did each Monday because they are interested. It isn't something they want to do but it is different and interesting. They says it sounds like a lot of work....they are right. It is nonstop work. And the most gratifying thing I have ever done. I flew my drone last weekend and got pictures of my homesite, after it had the footings put in for my house. I made that the background for my work computer......and had a coworker stop by to see the picture....a mountainside with a clearing and a house. While shaking his head, he said "You are in the middle of nowhere."
I just smile. I did the city living for years. Then I "escaped" to the suburbs, only to slowly discover that I was in a carefully crafted prison.
When I am in "the middle of nowhere" I feel free.

I hear you and agree to what you're saying.
Except one tiny thing. When I'm out in the country I call it being in the middle of Everywhere. When I'm stuck in the city, I call that being in the middle of Nowhere.
I know. That is backwards of what most people say. But then, living rurally is already "backwards" from what most people do. So I'm consistent.

 

[bspeedy]

My finding is - most guys are jealous of where I live and would move there in a minute. Some - not all - ladies are a little scared of the critters, the dirt and the lack of people.

My guess is that the naysayer guy is married to a woman who has 'convinced' him that the country life is no good.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

This is what I see when I step out the front door. I snapped this (poor quality) pic just a minute ago for the sole purpose of this thread. I wouldn't trade this for a cityscape for anything. We love it here!

Edit: those are the Catskill Mountains.

Anybody who sees that view and doesn't understand why you would want to live there is a fool.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

My finding is - most guys are jealous of where I live and would move there in a minute. Some - not all - ladies are a little scared of the critters, the dirt and the lack of people.

My guess is that the naysayer guy is married to a woman who has 'convinced' him that the country life is no good.

It has been my experience that most women do not want to work. They want comfort and the fruits of success. Country living involves a lot more maintenance than city living does.
YMMV

 

[PJSprog]

It has been my experience that most women do not want to work. They want comfort and the fruits of success. Country living involves a lot more maintenance than city living does.
YMMV

Plenty of men like that these days, too, unfortunately.

 

[fatjay]

Everyone has their way of doing things. My coworkers don't understand rural living, but I don't understand city living. They'd come with a "Hey, any cows wander into your yard?" to which I'd reply "hey, anyone randomly key your car?" and "Hey, how many tractors do you have again?" and I said "Not enough, but at least I don't have to park on the street".

We've been going back and forth for years. He just chooses to not go outside. Ever. I guess if that's your outlook, you can get by until the crime, noise, and pollution start coming in your house.