Stepping towards the farming dream!

[preppy*hippie*chick]

Do you remember how Old State Road was? Everyone had gates on their driveways with big KEEP OUT signs. Used to crack me up. You know, Delaware county has been the fastest growing county in Ohio for the last 15 years or so. The schools and post offices can't keep up with it!

 

[Chicken Fruit]

preppy*hippie*chick :

Do you remember how Old State Road was? Everyone had gates on their driveways with big KEEP OUT signs. Used to crack me up. You know, Delaware county has been the fastest growing county in Ohio for the last 15 years or so. The schools and post offices can't keep up with it!

Yes! lol, oldstate is a mess now. All those new developments, orange road is unreal. What irritates me is that for my whole life we drove down cheshire to 23 and then went into delaware that way. Well I went back for grammas funeral and had to go to delaware. So I went down cheshire.... and ended up lost in a housing developemnt WTH?! kings was gone, and cheshire had been diverted before reaching 23 and they were still fixing the road... I had no idea where I was.

I remember growing up, and in the 80's during that little lull in the economy I remember my parents and grandparents talking about how amazing it was that delaware county had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation.

It never slows down. I think Olentangy has the hardest time keeping up with all the new students- they have like 7 elementarys now... can you imagine? Powel put in a new highschool before we moved that had a WENDY'S IN the school. Only in ohio. Only in powel lol.

I have to go out there in June, its always bitter sweet.​

 

[English Chick]

Fingers crossed for you!! can't wait tilll Monday.... my home is over 200 years old, they have their problems (lots) but you can't beat the true character of really old houses... charms warts and all (including bats!)..... don't forget to let us all know how you get on!! good luck and massive hugs...........

 

[preppy*hippie*chick]

Yes, do let us know & sorry for kind of hijacking your thread.

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

Oooo I hope you get that loan! What a steal!

My husband and I currently live on a 4 acre farm in RI but I have visions of at least 60 acres in the middle of nowhere somewhere and building a dome house and dome barns

Someday!

 

[ruth]

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I agree EC - I wouldn't change a thing about the "character" of our old plantation home. Often at night, as I'm turning out the lights and heading up the stairs to go to bed, I think about the many peope who were born in this house, lived in this house, and died in this house. This property was in the same family from 1790 till 1974 and though this wasn't the first house on the property it has been here for over 100 years and most of the people in the cemetary outside were born and/or died here. It's a running joke with DH and I that everyone in this town was either born here; grew up here; played here; visited here or died here. You just don't get that with a new house. I love antiques for the same reasons.

So love your new (old) home, quirks and all, just be prepared that it isn't the same as a modern home and you'll do great.

 

[Rosalind]

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+2 from me and DH.

I live in a 300 year old farmhouse, 2500 sq. ft. Houses were built with slightly more thermal mass in the early 1700s, so my heating bills aren't quite so bad as all that, not if we run the woodstove religiously. But in winter, the master bedroom and the den are the furthest from the woodstove, and waking up at 5am to frost inside the windows, and lukewarm coffee because the coffeemaker can't keep it warm enough...not fun. The main thing is that you have to be handy around the house. 100 years old isn't so bad, but contractors out and out refuse to work on my house, sometimes for any money, sometimes for less than six figures. I think that was what surprised me most, that lots of contractors refused to work on it because of the age and because it would require an actual engineer's plans working to blueprints rather than to the regular building code. So, be prepared to do a lot of repairs on your own. I think I spent about $1000 on power tools so I could do my own repairs, till all was said and done. I hired the plumbing and electricity done by pros, but DH and I do all the finish and basic carpentry ourselves.

 

[SophieLain127]

I would love to have a house that was 200 or 300 years old. Especially one that has a cemetery on it. I've always wanted to live in a house next to a cemetery..( I know creepy, but they are just so peaceful). I'm also looking in surrounding states but so far ohio seems the cheapest. We've considered if we get a lot of land to put in our own cemetery so when our family passes we will have them near us.

I sure do love all this planning aspect of this. I sure hope I can get a house...lol.