1w ago

Peace and quiet.

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A decade ago my wife and I quit our jobs packed our kids and stuff and moved 7000kms to our now rural homestead. Our closest neighbor is 2km away. Town and groceries is a half hour drive one way. We have a huge garden and laying hens. We raise our own chickens for meat as well as quail and rabbits. Our kids hunt and fish and play outside. Like we did when we were kids.
It's fucking amazing y'all.
- Our closest neighbor is 2km away.
  ahhhhhhhhhhhhh that sounds great
- A 30min drive to town is perfect. That sounds incredible.
  
  If I'm any more than a 15 minute walk to my nearest grocer I consider it hell. Fuck needing to pay insurance, maintenance, and gas costs just to be able to perform basic chores.
  Needing to waste an hour just to get groceries sounds so dumb.
  
  The point is they don't need to go into town often. They have everything they need on their land. Different people prioritize different things and have different wants.
  
  We don't need to go to town. We grow almost all of our own food for the entire year. We don't need movies or bars or restaurants or even....shocker...full time soul sucking jobs. though we do work for some cash flow. We have the internet and piracy, friends with back yards and basements and we can cook just fine, in fact I used to be a sous chef in a former life and is much of the reasom why we produce our own. We live on less money as a family of five than most single people do. Around ~$25,000/Canadian a year. A family of five.
  Our impact is minimal compared to yours I bet, considering all my families food with the exception of a few items comes from the 250 acres of land surrounding my house and we care for that land to ensure we minimize the impact from our agriculture practices as much as we can. We use no motorized equipment and farm using regenerative practices.You probably don't know or care what that means though. Our farm encompasses 1/4 acre. The site where our 3 bedroom home for, again a family of five, sits and is the size of an average "lawn" or "yard" here.
  That land also feeds my sister's family (4 adults who live in the city four hours away) and my father's (2 adults). We also provide to our local food bank all season long and barter a lot with our neighbors.
  And you wonder why there are monumental societal rifts between rural areas and urban. It's because of people like you who "know better" but have zero actual knowledge or experience to back it up. Just blathering mouthpieces full of nonsense.
  
  Nice fucking assumptions asshat.
  Not like I literally went to college for wildlife conservation and have done entire reports on regenerative agriculture practices. My favorite is multispecies rotational grazing to help incorporate the whole ecosystem into how we cultivate the land. Though, my education spanned much more than just agricultural practices and more on ecosystem health and sustainability on macro scales.
  I know much more than you think. I don't really give a shit about your little bs rant. A lot of the bs you go on about are much deeper societal issues that are not unique to rural or urban life but the very fabric of our interconnected society as a whole. I don't care about how little money you live your life on. Needing money is a much larger societal issue that needs to be solved and everyone fucking off into the woods to start their own individual homesteads is not how you make a functional society.
  Yes, modern city life has issues and industrialized society is environmentally harmful, especially suburbia, but everyone living isolated plots is not sustainable in the slightest. Just because you and your family are able to do it doesn't mean that everyone can while the entirety of society facilitating the existence of people wanting to live so spread and distanced from each other is causing massive resource drains and itself causes environmental harm in the externalities of facilitating it on a structural level.
  As much as you like to imagine you live apart from society out in your little fiefdom, you're still very much a part of it.
  
  And you draw assumptions as well. I assure you I am a part of my society and fight for the things I believe in. You seem to know me so well you likely already are aware of that yet at the same time you don't care at all.
  I'm glad you studied It's a smart thing to do. It's a shame you are so knowledgeable yet so bound to a system that does not work for anyone and wastes the vast majority of its food in the name of capitalism. Your high horse seems to have lost its legs.
  We can walk the talk and we do, so we're pieces of shit for actually doing it. Shake your head.
  I even got my ass off the couch yesterday and voted against fascism in Canada, though I don't believe in the party or person I voted for. I'm probably a piece of shit for doing that too.
  
  Yes, I live in a society. Such a profound statement. Almost like that's the goal so I put my effort into changing that society instead of thinking I'm so much better for having removed myself from it.
  
  I live rurally so I have removed myself from society? You have some interesting ideas. Incorrect, assumptive ideas but ideas none the less.
  
  conserving a whole lot i bet with that short walk to your local.

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