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["Gloria Morris" <gloriamorris59 AT gmail.com>]

On 6/20/07, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> "Marcee, you're right. The single biggest mistake people make when
> buying rural property is moving into a community of people where they
> just won't fit. Carefully check out the people before you buy the
> land. Subscribe to the local paper. Visit and talk to everyone you
> see. Attitudes and values will become apparent. Never expect that you
> will be able to change the local mindset."


My last homestead started out great, with like-minded neighbors. Over the 16
years I lived there, the area changed dramatically. It Yuppified and
Citified. I became a lone hold-out, surrounded by those with whom I did not
fit, by those who did not see a tax increase they would not happily embrace
(my property taxes more than quadrupled, but my property value barely
increased), by those who wanted to bring the city with them. I am once again
blessed to live in an area with like-minded people. My new homestead is
located in an ideal place for homesteading, and there are like-minded people
all around me. It is wonderful to live where you fit in, and miserable to
live where you don't. One simply cannot put a price on that. Good neighbors
add great value to life.

Gloria