Mine and Not Yours.

[Big Barn]

My grandparents bought a trailer in a trailer park in Lake Land, FL back in the 60's. Most of the people in that trailer park were Hungarians. Most were from Chicago and surrounding areas, like South Bend. That trailer park was EXACTLY like any other Hungarian neighborhood you'd find in any midwestern town. They made it just like home, only no snow.

Your post brought back fond memories. When I was little, Dad had a bunch (8-10?) young Hungarian men working on the farm. They were a great bunch of guys and I think they were perhaps all friends before they emigrated to Canada.

I need to look for old photos....

 

[ultrarunner]

Years ago while working in Vermont I was travelling past a little ice cream stand surrounded by fields. It was that time of year and they were spraying liquid manure... perhaps there was no overspray onto the ice cream shop but I never stopped there.

Visiting my Grand Parents Dairy farm and some of my friends from California came for a week... it was interesting to say the least.

One day the farmer down the road was spraying liquid manure and my city friends were outraged... said there should be a law against that or at least warning signs...

I kind of laughed and was asked what's so funny... the two of them were into the Green Movement and Organic Foods...

When I explained the farmers here are Organic and don't use chemical fertilizers or pesticides there was a moment when the dots connected...

 

[MossRoad]

Visiting my Grand Parents Dairy farm and some of my friends from California came for a week... it was interesting to say the least.

One day the farmer down the road was spraying liquid manure and my city friends were outraged... said there should be a law against that or at least warning signs...

I kind of laughed and was asked what's so funny... the two of them were into the Green Movement and Organic Foods...

When I explained the farmers here are Organic and don't use chemical fertilizers or pesticides there was a moment when the dots connected...

 

[Jstpssng]

^^
It wasnt the manure I took exception to; it was the ice cream shop which had to have gotten some off-target movement during the activity.

 

[ultrarunner]

Manure from dairy can permeate...

We were out walking and one of the farms were in the middle of milking... these are small family operations high in the picturesque alps.

My friends wanted to get some pictures and asked if it was OK...

So they went into the stable posing with the cows and calves and petting the cows... they had a great time feeding handfuls of grass etc... when we left they discovered they smelled like cows... we were going to the city that night so a change of clothes was in order.

Oh... they saw me backing up when one of the cows lifted it's tail... it wasn't long before they realized why!

 

[Thomas]

ultrarunner
Oh... they saw me backing up when one of the cows lifted it's tail... it wasn't long before they realized why!
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Hope you told your friends don't walk behind cows that are hitch in the barn after being out in early spring time green grass field.

 

[ultrarunner]

The first time out is exciting for sure... even the old milk cows kick up their heels!

My brother was 6 at the time and cut across the pasture the first week when the cows were out... he had a long stick with him as was common when taking the cows out...

Anyway one of the cows made a beeline towards him and we were in horror seeing it unfold...

My brother tried to get out of the way but the cow kept charging... the next part was amazing... He stopped turned and stood his ground and at the last moment smacked the cow across the head with his stick whick broke into many pieces from impact...

The cow just stopped not knowing what to make of it and my brother calmly walked away saying it took him all day to find that stick.

The old farms were such a part of daily life that people often went by the farm name when asked where are you from... hiking through the woods I would get stopped on occasion but all I had to do was say I'm from such and such a farm and all was good... sometimes to the point of the farmer saying they heard the grandkids were visiting for the summer... this was before phones and internet so most news was exchanged after Sunday morning church service.

 

[sodamo]

Visiting my Grand Parents Dairy farm and some of my friends from California came for a week... it was interesting to say the least.

One day the farmer down the road was spraying liquid manure and my city friends were outraged... said there should be a law against that or at least warning signs...

I kind of laughed and was asked what's so funny... the two of them were into the Green Movement and Organic Foods...

When I explained the farmers here are Organic and don't use chemical fertilizers or pesticides there was a moment when the dots connected...

Luv it

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Wow !!!!
What are you guys all up tight about?
I see no problem at all!!!

You have nailed it!!!

Why can't you townies leave your townie ways behind, when you move out into the country??

I once had a cityiot ask me, "how come the folks out in the country don't like us?" That was a hard question to answer truthfully!! He just didn't get it!

Thank God I was smart enough to buy the farm I grew up on, and I'm not surrounded by cityiots!

SR

 

[Citydude]

Well the great migration has started. My neighbor sells real estate and sold 7 properties to people from California just last week.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Well the great migration has started. My neighbor sells real estate and sold 7 properties to people from California just last week.

They're everywhere! They're everywhere! We even have a group on our "Neighborhood" website of folks from California..."Caliokies" I call them. Have had experience with them before, when my company bought a small California company and moved their R&D folks to OKC. All they did for a while was complain and hide from tornadoes, but after about three years you couldn't not have moved them back under any circumstances.

 

[ultrarunner]

Well the great migration has started. My neighbor sells real estate and sold 7 properties to people from California just last week.

Very true... both of my brothers with their wives visited property... one looking around Sisters Oregon and the other Idaho... both already know people there.

Two docs just bought their retirement spreads... old farms again Oregon and Idaho...

Depending on how people feel about elections there could be a stampede... or not.

Several have already said they will be away election week... simply don't want to be in SF/Oakland...

One is making plans for Idaho and I asked why as she and family regularly participate in protests and demonstrations...

Maybe maturity brings different prospectives on things... or maybe looking to abandon ship.

Cities hit very hard in part due to density...

The last 3 years it has been AZ destination number one but have not heard much this year..

Only hope it's not the same as when Americans travel abroad perpetuating the Ugly American which I have seen first hand.

 

[Big Barn]

Well the great migration has started. My neighbor sells real estate and sold 7 properties to people from California just last week.

My biggest fear living in B. C.......Californians would move in and we may not even notice!

 

[Jim Nelson]

I have a real good friend who moved from Ca. to Texas about 5 years ago and in a short time fit right in, now he cusses the Californians moving in at least as much as the native Texans do.It all depends on the person and what kind of baggage they are packing along. Out here in rural San Diego county the people moving in from Orange county catch a lot of grief when they want to bring in their O.C. ways and change the status quo.

 

[ultrarunner]

There was a time when TX was the promised land... not saying no longer a destination because know plenty in Austin/Round Rock...

Attitude and stepping up done carefully is a good start.

The gravel road to my place in WA is shared with me at the end.... mentioned I planned to get rock to my neighbors and if it would be OK to fill potholes with any left over.

Mom was 82 at the time and couldn't wait to get out with a wheelbarrow rake and tamper each morning...

All I can say is she was more than welcomed and in 3 days knew more people than I did...

Some would stop and she would say she grew up on a family dairy farm and we were in...

 

[Doofy]

Well.... Finally home from my Florida project. Was leaving the house this morning with wifey and the girls to go for a ride; sure enough at the end of the driveway there was my new neighbor who hasn't seen me since he moved in. I had the window down so it wasn't hard to give him a big wave; he didn't even acknowledge my presence... simply cut into his driveway with nothing as much as a head nod. Some people just aren't friendly or neighborly. It'll be the last time I wave, that's for sure.

I'd tell him "GOOD MORNING", "I SAID, GOOD MORNING!" with a bullhorn from about 6 feet away. Rudeness has become the norm.

 

[beowulf]

I have a real good friend who moved from Ca. to Texas about 5 years ago and in a short time fit right in, now he cusses the Californians moving in at least as much as the native Texans do.It all depends on the person and what kind of baggage they are packing along. Out here in rural San Diego county the people moving in from Orange county catch a lot of grief when they want to bring in their O.C. ways and change the status quo.

It is not necessarily moves from state to state that draw local attention. Thirty four + years ago we moved from Los Angeles to the Sierra Nevada foothills in central California - a major change of environment and culture - sold the Benz and bought a pickup and tractor. People wondered about us, and likely talked about us, but we have settled in nicely - mostly to ourselves, though with kids in school you do meet and mix with people.

Interestingly, the first real close friends we made up here were one couple from Los Angeles and another couple from San Francisco - connections there were through our kids and theirs. Like us, they love the rural life and work hard to maintain it - we brought our work ethic with us. There are also many up here whose families have been here for generations. Many types, many lifestyles, many opinions, and a range of 'homesteads' that range from genteel country to what I would characterize as proprietary junkyards. We are mostly content to stay home and enjoy our bucolic lifestyle - rarely mixing with more than our two close couple-friendships. With 90 acres we really have no neighbors and neither cause nor see waves.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Well...I guess I can tell my tale of woe here! and get some good ideas or thoughts.
We've been here 40 years, know everyone around. Two years ago I bought adjoining property and same time had new neighbors move in close by.
Now...tell me THIS isn't weird?!?
Wife and I are hanging clothes on clothesline (yes...we still do that) when we notice a truck going down the road...stops...guy gets out leaving motor running, door open! He walks the 300 ft or so up to us, saying "where's your still?". No introduction, handshake, etc. "Uh...say what? Who are you?" I ask. He says his daughter and son in law bought place next to us. He goes on to say he used to be a farmer (he appeared to be in 70s) and wish I could show him around place they bought. So I said sure, he says hop in my truck. We ride over down to barn. "What is this, what is that?" he asks pointing to a disk harrow, cultivator, spring tooth harrow, etc. I'm thinking... this guy was a farmer?!?!?
Anyway, I go back home, I'm working on my new fence. This kid comes flying up on an ATV on my land! and says "can I hunt?".
I've never laid eyes on this kid before. No introduction. Simply "can I hunt?". I said..."who are you?". Turns out I know who his parents are, don't know them well, they live a mile or so away. I said, well, I don't hunt and I'd have to talk it over with my boss.
Bottom line is, when I was a kid (50s-early 60s) we were taught manners, about trespassing, basically what to & not do, etc.
Modern people (most) are rude and disrespectful. They like noise (loud music, cars-trucks-atvs-motorcycles)...they don't like quiet serenity. To us (wife & I)...it's just weird. I don't believe our grandparents generation thought the same of us. We were different yes.
So back to Chuck and original post, the guy was fine in my opinion. He didn't or couldn't have known who's who. Then he did introduce himself. We should be so lucky here!

 

[3Ts]

I think TV and air conditioning have contributed greatly to the isolation of people and lack of interaction. I remember when we did not have a TV or air conditioning. We'd spend the time outdoors or sitting on the porch. In town, we'd sit on the front porch and talk to the neighbors who were sitting on their front porch.

 

[Frankenkubota]

I did meet my neighbor in Oregon soon after I moved into my place, mostly 5-20 acre site so lots of separation.

He introduced himself to me, looked me right in the eye and said, I知 not real neighborly, I keep to myself. I bet my life he was growing weed. Not another word, for 7 years. Fine with me, no BS There.