Where is a good place to live?

[Livinzoo]

I'm really getting sick of the hot and dry GA summers. You really can't grow anything here unless you irrigate them. I was hoping this year would be different. But today I noticed my corn is drying out So I told my boyfriend when we can afford to buy our own land to farm (right now we are using his grandmothers) I want to move someplace less dry. I really don't like winter but I will take a few more cold days for less hot and dry days.

I don't want to move too far away. His family is all here in NE GA. My parents are in Eastern NC. My mom tried to convince me of moving there but I have heard they have some odd laws regarding hogs there. Something about you have to have a certain thing to collect their waste. Now this may be more focused on factory farms but I'm not certain.

So where should we move that meet these requirements:
Close to GA and NC
Gets adequate rainfall to support crops without additional irrigation
Allows pasture hog raising and breeding
Not to long or cold of a winter
Not a very expensive area
Hopefully someplace that we can eventually live off the grid
Of course have to be able to have goats and chickens too

Will also have to coincide with other plants that our employer owns, but they are nationwide.

Give me some ideas!

Thanks

 

[Sillystunt]

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Welcome to florida....lol

 

[Judy]

Look at Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky. Maybe Virginia, but I think it is more expensive.

 

[bigkford]

When you find out please let me know. I live in Ohio and we have had alot of rain but we get dry spells. Winters are way to cold and toooooo long. I am a freeze baby. Just put my thermals away last week. We were in the upper mid 80s today we are 63 with rain off and on. I don't think their is a happy place for weather.

 

[JewellFarm]

I would suggest Tennessee or Virginia. It's not expensive to live in Virginia. We have a 5% sales tax and no crazy animal laws that I am aware of. Northern Virginia may be higher for cost of living and such, not sure, but I am in SW VA.

 

[English Chick]

. there is always the UK.........

 

[Davaroo]

Close to GA and NC
Gets adequate rainfall to support crops without additional irrigation
Allows pasture hog raising and breeding
Not too long or cold of a winter
Not a very expensive area
Hopefully someplace that we can eventually live off the grid
Of course have to be able to have goats and chickens too:

Wow, pretty stringent list. Someone on the gardening forum was complaining that Charleston, SC has gotten so much rain that her garden has flooded, so maybe that's an option.

There is also a dividing line between NC and SC, that separates their weather. I don't know the official term. But my son lives in Statesville, NC and he says it rains there - when it isn't here in SC.

Where is a good place to live?

Of course, the obvious answer is: "Wherever you are."
Sometimes you have to learn to like and improve what you already have, not look for greener grass. Just a thought.​

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

We are in Eastern NC, near Greenville and Washington in Beaufort County.

The hog laws you speak of are for commercial operations and that is the for the waste water ponds and how they have to apply the "liquid" lol to the fields. When they spray the brown water is has a very "earthy" smell.

In our area the land goes for about 10K an acre for cleared land, wooded about 6K, low lands much much cheaper. Alot of the old family farms are slowly breaking up

and being sold.

Steve in NC

 

[charmed one]

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$10,000 an acre..holy crap!

We gave around $2,000 an acre and I thought we could've done better. Goes to show you all of the diversity in the areas we live.

 

[mamagardener]

How about the appalachian mountains?