 Observation on the country-life maintenance Story: Since my father died I moved to countryside where my parents have a home. They bought this land about 20 years ago in their mid-30. The gravitated towards country life very early: own house, land, garden with flowers and vegetables. And throughout this years built a big house (theirs "life project"), big greenhouses that are small family business and bought a separate land piece and build a stables for 3 horses on it. My mom owns 2 horses. 13 comments
So, that's just for the "basic" maintenance. Plus horses: feed everyday + clean the stables (thanks god I've found someone to do this for a little money). Again that's only MAINTENANCE. It's impossible to live without a car here. Have to drive to the shop for ~10 minutes one way + much higher gasoline expenses. And the communications are not in "full comfort zone". Had to spend ~ 1k$ ordering all the water filtering stuff (it will be hard for mom to carry bottled water). Redpilling city tech boys&girls watching Luke Smith and thinking about buying a big piece of land and moving there to live with trad husband/wife. Seems like I'll have to find a guy for all this lawn-moving + some other stuff jobs after I will fix, setup and rake all the other stuff here. There's really a lot of thing to do. Recently 2 pumping stations broke. Had to carry them to the repair station and pay ~100$ (thanks god it was cheaper than it could be). I don't have a job right now but I can't imagine how would I work a "standard" job (9-6, driving to the office in the center of the city) given a lot of stuff do to here all the time. My main goal in to set everything in a way to minimize maintenance time + money in the future. It will take ~ 2-3 month honesty. And now I don't have a car, only mom has. We share it and it's very inconvenient. And what if I'd be married and had kids? Carrying kids to a (good city) school + sport or something educational every day + wife or me going to job. That's automotive slavery.  @shegeley living in a country side can be a pain yes, but I like it because potentially you can be fully autonomous. Your own food, your own water, your own electricity and so on, but it is harder in many aspects. Compared to an apartment it is much easier to own bigger place in a country side. What do you mean be independence exactly? Living in the city I can take a cheap taxi a public transport, a bike or a car ride (if I have one) to the place where I need. So even if the car or bike breaks there are still options. In countryside your are much MORE depended on car for example. Of course you can do some basic maintenance (oil + filters change etc) but I doubt that you can repair broken engine so easily. So it seems for me that you are even more dependent on tech+supply chain @w96k and growing your own food... That's a dream too. I mean growing food for real for the whole year for a single grown man is really a lot of work. Even more for the family. You can grow only basics: potato + garlic, tomato, onion etc. And they are usually cheap You'll still buy meat, fish, bananas, berries, mushrooms. milk, cheese etc. That's tasty and more expensive than the basics  @shegeley I think one of the main reasons for living in the country is that you don't have to work a 9-6 job to make for living. There are options, like agriculture, herding animals, but also remote jobs if one's lucky to find one. I agree there's a lot of maintenance that needs to be done though and that it can be expensive. On the other hand I bet property prices in the city are much higher, even rent can take up a large chunk of one's income, so there's that cost that's lower in the country. Whining about country living continues. Had a power outage for 33 hours. 80% of the meat and fish section is defrosted, soaked and expired. 8 years old lawn mower broke. Had to pay 320$ for the new one. 😠yesterday had a little time to think and write down all the country house todo items: repair, inventorize , buy and install, threw out, sell, clean and etc. |
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So, observation is the cost (time AND money) of living outside in the given setup + maintaining all the communication (electrical, water, gas, septic, etc) is just incredibly bigger than living in the city.
I have to mow the grass for at least 10h a week to keep it in place. That's just some idiotically spent time when I could be coding something cool (or anything other "productive" like creating something, not maintaining the existubng) or just resting. And that's plus gasoline & oil cost.