turnkey4099
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Washington does. I don't know if it is state-wide but our county (Whitman) even has a brochure to be handed out by the real estate agencies explaining the law and some of the drawbacks about moving into the country.
You know your neighbor's visitors are from the city when...
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Washington does. I don't know if it is state-wide but our county (Whitman) even has a brochure to be handed out by the real estate agencies explaining the law and some of the drawbacks about moving into the country.
Egon
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Back when the Chargers may have been set for different jolts. And when the battery got discharged the jolt got less.
hawkeye08
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... and then they complain about high prices for beef in the store. I just read where the US is allowing more meat imports. I also read that China owns some feedlots and is shipping meat to China for processing and then shipping the processed meat back to US for sale. It is cheaper to process in China and ship both directions than to have it processed here. Lots of red flags about that..
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I had a dog that knew when the battery in her shock collar went dead. When it was alive she behaved like an angel. When it went dead her behavior magically started declining.
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It depends on the circumstances.
I used to rent the granny cabin out back, to students from the university 10 miles down the road. One condition was that the rental was only for the school year and the cabin would be available for my guests through the summer. This got me final-year Seniors who wanted to experience country life for a year before they graduated and went on with their city lives.
The tenants were all decent kids but I feared sooner or later one of their guests would do a "hold my beer and watch this!" idiocy when I wasn't around. As a landlord with substantial liability if something went wrong ....
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roadhunter
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Interesting.
There are lots of feed operations in Greeley CO and the hipsters in Ft Collins always complain about the smell.
I guess I never thought of farming/ranching as a nuisance but I can see how that would be a problem where farming meets development.
There are lots of feed operations in Greeley CO and the hipsters in Ft Collins always complain about the smell.
I guess I never thought of farming/ranching as a nuisance but I can see how that would be a problem where farming meets development.
hawkeye08
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When some city folk neighbors were building a new rural loghouse 23 years ago, the farmer that farmed the surrounding land was disking the wheat stubble to get ready to plant the next year's crop. They told him he had to stop because the dust was causing problems with their staining and painting of their log house. The farmer stopped on their land and moved on to other land and never came back to theirs. They had to scramble and try and find a farmer willing to take their land on. Farmers talk among themselves, so all the local farmers stayed clear... finally a farmer took it on a few years later and planted grass for hay. Those city folks never adapted to rural and sold out. New owners understood farming so had no problems.
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Back in the 80's when the southwest side of Fort Wayne was being developed, a local doctor built in a addition next to a small hog farm
They did not like the "aroma" and went to court and the farmer won, but I think eventually it may have caused him to go out of business because he did not last long after the case
They did not like the "aroma" and went to court and the farmer won, but I think eventually it may have caused him to go out of business because he did not last long after the case
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The big assault on traditional farming here is the newcomers who rip out the traditional, 100 year old apple orchards to plant premium vineyards. The real estate folks who sell these properties to the newcomers tell them owning a vineyard for a weekend getaway place will make a 'Statement' to their friends back in the city. Most of these small holdings aren't economically rational, that isn't the point at all.
I finally this year had to fence my orchard. As all the neighboring land got converted and fenced I had become the neighborhood zoo, deer everywhere. The replacement trees I plant each year weren't surviving. We put cages around the new trees but this year the deer learned to climb on and crush the cages. So when the new neighbor fenced his parcel, we gave up and did ours at the same time. This really is the end of an era, these orchards were unfenced and in many cases farmed jointly, for over 100 years.
The real estate lady managing my new neighbor's place told me 'fences make good neighbors'. My argument that we've all been good neighbors forever made no impression on her. She's from New York. The prior RE agent who sold that parcel to the prior owner 10 years ago was from New Orleans. He told me I had to participate with him on paving the quarter mile easement out to the highway because that parcel was unsellable facing a dirt road. I refused. I don't intend to sell this place in my lifetime, I don't care what its market value might be.
Summary - city people buy these 'one-horse' old, small family farms then completely destroy the ambiance they had found attractive. To create a place they might only visit several times a year. Then move on, in under 10 years, to destroy something else.
I finally this year had to fence my orchard. As all the neighboring land got converted and fenced I had become the neighborhood zoo, deer everywhere. The replacement trees I plant each year weren't surviving. We put cages around the new trees but this year the deer learned to climb on and crush the cages. So when the new neighbor fenced his parcel, we gave up and did ours at the same time. This really is the end of an era, these orchards were unfenced and in many cases farmed jointly, for over 100 years.
The real estate lady managing my new neighbor's place told me 'fences make good neighbors'. My argument that we've all been good neighbors forever made no impression on her. She's from New York. The prior RE agent who sold that parcel to the prior owner 10 years ago was from New Orleans. He told me I had to participate with him on paving the quarter mile easement out to the highway because that parcel was unsellable facing a dirt road. I refused. I don't intend to sell this place in my lifetime, I don't care what its market value might be.
Summary - city people buy these 'one-horse' old, small family farms then completely destroy the ambiance they had found attractive. To create a place they might only visit several times a year. Then move on, in under 10 years, to destroy something else.
