Its Official, I am tired of living in the city.

[schellie69]

I have lived in town for 10 years now and I hate it more each day. I have chickens and a rooster my garden in the bark yard. That is my little piece of country right now. All of us my DH and kids and myself want to get a farm so bad. I want to be able to stand on my front porch and not see another house. I am just not cut out for living in a city.

 

[GarlicEater]

I love living out where I do. I just learned people can't keep poultry inside the city limits of Gilroy. Not even hens or I guess, little quail or anything.

 

[debilorrah]

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Are you kidding me? In GILROY??? Isn't Gilroy nothing but a bunch o stinky farms??

I live in an odd city. 5 minutes from just about everything and I can have 130 chickens/ducks and 8 large livestock. Nothing on either side of us but an empty lot, but we can see neighbors houses easily. Not close enough to spit on, but close enough to holler "HEY I NEED SOME SUGAR!".

 

[Heckel's Hens]

We own a rental house in a cute, but boring, suburb in the South. Great amenities, new house, and about 0.2 acre. It was an awesome starter home, but where we live now is completely different. Just a few miles outside of a major hub, our "neighborhood" is one of th eonly places still zoned agricultural around here. So there are farms, small farms and homes built on land that used to be farms. LOL Our street has houses on every 1-2 acres. Great neighbors, yet still that feeling of peacefulness. You just can't reproduce the freedom and nature found out here.

 

[Teach97]

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Hollering that in some areas could get a person in trouble!

 

[SarahBeth9394]

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Hollering that in some areas could get a person in trouble!

Especially if you yell that in Hooker.


After a lifetime in the city I've been in a tiny town for the past 5 years and I love it. The kids really like it here as well. Hubby wants to move closer to the Metroplex but is all for the outskirts where it's nice and rural and we could get an acre or so.

 

[newfoundland]

I was born in one city and grew up in another city. The closest we ever came to nature was a walk in the park. I always hated it but the constraints of work gave us no choice but to carry on living there. We brought up our family in the suburbs, but after many years they became more and more developed and felt crowded.

When I retired 2 years ago, we sold up and moved out to one of the countries most unpopulated areas, a small farm house and 6 acres. No neighbours for quarter of a mile or so. We love it here! We relish the peace and quiet, and even the isolation during the winter snows.

We have 3 horses, our poultry, dogs, cats, son and daughter-in-law's 3 pygmy goats and a vegetable garden. Before we moved here, we barely went out in the garden, only to cut the grass etc. We always felt on view, because of the close proximity of neighbours. Now we are out most of the day, weather permitting. My advice to everyone who is in the position we were in two years ago is, never give up your dream!

 

[Dunkopf]

The country way of life is great. We live on a hill and even though it's windier than other places the view is great. We all have 8 acre lots and are surrounded by some 35 acre lots and then the original 1000 acre farms that were here to start with. There are allegedly requirements for inspections on buildings over 200SF. Haven't been bothered with it yet.

Moving out here was strange. Lot's of learning curves. Proper fencing and construction techniques. Getting the soil ready to grow something was a 4 year process and still going strong. New things constantly popping up.

If we lived in the city or suburbs the kids would be exposed to a whole different set of problems. Our whole K-12 only has 440 kids or so. Big compared to some areas out here. Small enough that gangs aren't an issue and the only drugs are a little Mary Jane and of course beer and ciggs. Most people know each other on at least a nodding basis.

Of course we're far enough out that the commute is a killer and between that and the foreclosure levels our homes have all dropped by about 1/3rd. Gotta live someplace though and rentals are just as high as the mortgage payment and I have put 8 years of hard work into this place. They don't make land anymore. I think I'll stay.

 

[teach1rusl]

DH is a project guy, so I sure can't imagine him stuck inside some big, fancy house on a postage stamp lot w/tons of restrictions. He'd be stressed, depressed, and stir-crazy inside of a week. I'd seriously bring that old tractor down and make restoring it your project...riding it around your fancy neighborhood afterward is purely optional

Take it back to your family place as a show/parade piece. Then buy yourself another old tractor (or old car) and start your next project. Find something you enjoy doing that reminds of your homeplace.