Nice post but rural living is very expensive. Have you lived in the county? You have higher traveling costs, your own well to maintain, more expensive equipment. If you have more than one acre an affordable push mower won’t do the job. Snow removal on a long driveway to consider. Sure there’s a single wide in uncle rico’s back 40….
Expensive? Not necessarily. Higher travel costs yes. Food and other supplies require good planning or they could get expensive. Wells typically go decades without any issues. Mowing? There is no city ordinances or HOA. Why mow more than a small lawn? Let the rest go natural. Snow doesn't exist where I'm at. The main advantage to rural life is the things you aren't required to do. My lawn is presently out of control because I have better things to do. I'll get to it later, and nobody will care. My home improvement projects can drag out as long as necessary with nobody but the wife to complain about the crap on the front porch.
You make some good points of course, but having to maintain a well and mow the grass do not figure as grievous problems to me, I myself would put up with it gladly if it rid me of this city...
I was thinking more about rent and groceries for living costs.
Take this example I just researched now, found a job posting for a ranch in Ronan, MT (Montana is like dream level for me..), around 15 bucks an hour, not bad.
Said ranch is a mere 3.5 miles from town, heck I'd walk that, or just get a bike, no fuel/car expenses ,in said town I found an lil apartment for rent at around 180 bucks a week.
So you see, this situation above would be a DREAM for me, and it actually exists, there is such a job, and you can rent an affordable place in town, took me 5 minutes to find this, there are sure to be hundreds if not thousands more examples like this that the OP could take advantage of.
Nice post but rural living is very expensive. Have you lived in the county? You have higher traveling costs, your own well to maintain, more expensive equipment. If you have more than one acre an affordable push mower won’t do the job. Snow removal on a long driveway to consider. Sure there’s a single wide in uncle rico’s back 40….
Expensive? Not necessarily. Higher travel costs yes. Food and other supplies require good planning or they could get expensive. Wells typically go decades without any issues. Mowing? There is no city ordinances or HOA. Why mow more than a small lawn? Let the rest go natural. Snow doesn't exist where I'm at. The main advantage to rural life is the things you aren't required to do. My lawn is presently out of control because I have better things to do. I'll get to it later, and nobody will care. My home improvement projects can drag out as long as necessary with nobody but the wife to complain about the crap on the front porch.
This. Cheap it ain't. Need a tractor with PTO for maintaining more than 5 acres, those start at $12k used. Well pump blows, $3k.
Alas no...
You make some good points of course, but having to maintain a well and mow the grass do not figure as grievous problems to me, I myself would put up with it gladly if it rid me of this city...
I was thinking more about rent and groceries for living costs.
Take this example I just researched now, found a job posting for a ranch in Ronan, MT (Montana is like dream level for me..), around 15 bucks an hour, not bad.
Said ranch is a mere 3.5 miles from town, heck I'd walk that, or just get a bike, no fuel/car expenses ,in said town I found an lil apartment for rent at around 180 bucks a week.
So you see, this situation above would be a DREAM for me, and it actually exists, there is such a job, and you can rent an affordable place in town, took me 5 minutes to find this, there are sure to be hundreds if not thousands more examples like this that the OP could take advantage of.
Again, that's just what I'd do...