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Slodave
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# Posted: 21 Jul 2012 02:34am
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Just wondering Who else here yourself or wife/husband, was raised on a ranch/farm etc ?
I was raised on a small 18 acre ranch myself (cows chickens etc) and i have never liked living in the city for the last 13 years.. I think there is a connection between how you grow up and your desire to build a cabin/homestead etc.
Its kind of sad our old ranch used to have NOONE within about a mile or so of our property. Now it has a huge subdivision to the south and another to the west lol. north and east are a dry riverbed. And there is now 4 houses built on our old property. UGGG
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rayyy
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# Posted: 21 Jul 2012 06:32am
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Like Johnny Denver say's Thank God I'm a Country Boy!I have had to live in town 3 differant times in my life time and hated every minute of it.You know when you can hear your neighbor snoreing,That's to close for me.I don't even reconize the house I grew up in.It's been remodeled and added on to so extensively.I do reconize the trees I planted as a kid,though.Big mature shade trees now.I'm tickled pink to know I'm back in the country for good now.Much happier.
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Gypsy
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# Posted: 21 Jul 2012 10:49am
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This is a very interesting question; I grew up in the city, but as a family we went camping every summer, so I've always enjoyed being in an outdoor setting. I lived in NYC for about 10 years, back in my 20's, and back then if you told me I was going to own a cabin one day I would have not believed it, because back then I loved the city lifestyle. I guess getting older and remembering how nice the quiet, peaceful slower pace of being in the country really just finally got to me. At this point, when I am at my "real" house, I freak out when I hear neighbors talking or laughing or just being out in their yards; I guess I'm just at the point where I'm ready to enjoy nature, my privacy, and peace and quiet.
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naturelover66
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# Posted: 21 Jul 2012 01:14pm
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My hubby and I were both raised in the burbs/ city.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 21 Jul 2012 01:25pm
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Same with Mr. Troll and I-both the burbs. However we camped all the time when I was growing up-took our trailer all over the country and Canada. When we went away to college it was in a small town and I remember thinking "poor kids here...what do they do for fun?" Well that town grew on us and we now live out in the country but still near there. Funny thing is...after living here for 30 years it is starting to feel too crowded for me...that is why I love the cabin!
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Rifraf
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# Posted: 21 Jul 2012 02:14pm
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I grew up on a farm , moved to a city at 17. I did enjoy the city when I was young, I was Awestruck at what was available and so close by all the time. I was also excited to go to the school there and meet soo many interesting kids. My town we were all pretty much the same, working kids on our parents land we all knew the same trades and had the same interests so it was very nice to break away for awhile and meet other people.
Since then I have traveled a lot, and lived in medium to large towns. The older I get the more I want that slow and private lifestyle again. i chose land in the country but only a 40 minute drive to a larger town so my kids can have the best of both worlds.
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Sustainusfarm
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:54pm
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I grew up in the burbs as well and my parents took us traveling all over the country in their 1979 VW bus! I love the cabin but I will NOT under any circumstances ever sleep in a tent again!!! NEVER! I say NEVER! My partner Jason grew up in the country in the far northern reaches of Wisconsin...there he tells me they used to jump on the trains as they went by to catch a ride into town!
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:44pm - Edited by: trollbridge
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Quoting: Sustainusfarm ..there he tells me they used to jump on the trains as they went by to catch a ride into town!
What adventure!! I just road my blue Huffy bike w/ the banana seat everywhere I needed to go...and then when I turned 12 my 10 speed made pedaling even easier. But I always missed that banana seat!!
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Bevis
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2012 09:39pm
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I was raised on a working farm/ranch. Up by 5 to get my morning chores done before school. Weekends we were up and out in the pastures...riding checking, repairing fences. Working cows, mowing and baling, and stacking hay.
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Bevis
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2012 09:42pm
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We moved to town when I was 14 as we got into playing sports. I was amazed at the things to do in town. But it was noiser than the country life. Plus I just couldn;t go hunting anytime I wished either.
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naturelover66
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:28pm
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My huffy bike was teal with a banana seat!!! Those were the days.
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neb
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:40pm
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I was raised in a small town of 400 people. It really was no differant then living in the country. I spent all my time on a farm and ranch and was a very good placed to be raised. Outdoors was what it was all about. Working hard and hunting fishing and do many outdoor activities. I couldn't imagine living in a city but not trying to run any body down if they have. If you have lived in a city it is all you know!!! I wouldn't change one thing about living in a small town. I know that I may have missed out on many things the big city offered but I couldn't live in a city.
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TomChum
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# Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:04am - Edited by: TomChum
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I grew up in the outskirts of a town of 25,000 in Hawaii. My dad never liked having neighbors but we didn't know any different. But just past a few houses was, sugarcane fields, the jungle, rivers, beaches, where we played all day every day. Every morning we woke up to roosters crowing, and waves crashing on the beach. Bicycles, BBguns, dirtbikes, surfing, cars, and a nefarious form of agriculture. I wasn't interested in working hard. Then my mom wisely talked me into getting off the island to attend college in the late '70s, which didn't go over so well because I didn't want to work at school either. I spent a couple years on the family wheat farm and then went back to school, got an engineering degree and turned into a workaholic, but lately have been weaning away from that. I've visited, but never moved back to the islands.
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tsvoyager
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2012 04:08am
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I grew up in a rural city of 19,000 now 25,000 but moved alot in the late teens and early 20's mainly to big cities (Memphis TN, Norfolk VA, Jacksonville FL) and hated it. I camped with my family when growing until dad was gone most of the time working. I got involved with scouts in my early teens and as a leader in my 20's and never looked back wanting a place in the deep woods. When we bought ours chunk the nearest neighbor was a mile down the road. However now I have neighbors 300 feet away on east and west and another across the road. but it still offers some solitude as they are vacation homes and we are seldom all there at the same time. Unfortunatly (in some ways) a Navy buddy bought the place next to mine and now lives there full time and thinks when we come up it's party time as he's stuck out in the boonies everyday. All I wanted was a place I can go up to, to get away from everything and everyone for a few days at a time.
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silverwaterlady
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2012 05:05am
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Wow TomChum how wonderful to grow up in Hawaii! Which island? Hawaii has a very special place in my heart and soul. I've spent quite a bit of time there and got very sad when I had to leave.
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TheWildMan
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# Posted: 20 Oct 2012 02:04pm
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grew up in the country, son of a couple of abusive and incompetent hippy back to the landers (as my father always said, since you can't buy slaves to do the hard work, have kids and make them do all the work, i learned country skills while they went bancrupt buying city toys on credit that no country person would want)
anyway, as a kid the biggest town only had 2 family owned diners, an Ames department store was where everyone got everything, and the good jobs were in crops, livestock, or timber. when i was 7 we got a mcdonalds then a jrecks sub shop, a few more family owned places, when i was 12 cable came to the area. despite that the jobs in the area were still in farming or logging and the area was sparsly populated everyone craved the big city conviniences, farms on the outskirts of town were harrassed to close up, suburb housing was built, urban sprawl spread out on the bigger roads filling will chain resteraunts, fast food, big corporate stores, wally world, etc but most putted along a few years and closed up shop only to have another built soon. despite the low populations, everyone wanted big city stuff that could not be supported. logistics of getting inventory here caused a lot of companies to leave, small town feel is replaced by boarded up stores stretching out for miles, the youth are all leaving since there are no jobs outside the same old farming or working at fast food places. everyone got greedy for the stuff our small country population could not support, now with the ressesion its righting itself, things are ballancing back to what we can support. unfortunatly it cost us several grocery stores and i have to travel 3 towns further to buy anything besides beer and chips. and those farms i mentioned were fined for the manuer smell, zoned to forbid tractors, and underhandedly forced to shut down, now theres a sub devision on it with a golf course. other farms and a wetlands were turned into a super wally world damaging a nesting ground of endangered blandings turtles, and several historic houses were seized under imenent domain to help expand a car dealership.
as a note we have enough wally worlds to support a customer population of 2 million, but the biggest town has only 11,000 people and a total population of 200,000 in the 4 counties that are within a 200 mile radius, farms that can be turned into stores are seeing tax rates double and a lot are forced to go under. cost of progress, i left for a 10 acre cabin/homestead in the hills away from it since i was disgusted with the way things are going
sorry if this sounds like a rant, the farm to subdivision topic hit home for me
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