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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The definition of "rural"
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:13:52 -0500

Other than being distant from perishables my homestead doesn't provide, like good cheese, I don't miss the proximity to shopping. I can find almost anything I need or want on eBay for less and have it delivered to my doorstep, and enjoy cutting out the middleman and reusing or recycling something.

So, after 7 years of homesteading, I would now say I could not live without a connection to the Internet.

In retrospect, the other thing I might put on that list is a place where there is some evidence of like-minded people. Two of the three couples with which we socialize have moved/are moving thousands of miles away, to be closer to more people like us. They underestimated the social isolation a rural life can bring. Again, if we didn't have the Internet connecting us to our friends, we might not be able to handle it either.

--Sage


On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:33:39 -0500
Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:06 AM, <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

This is how my city friends determine our "rural-ness": we
are 75 miles from the nearest Starbucks.

--Sage
Way Out in Texas

Access to shopping is something I hear friends around here talk about. Even before rising gas prices. It would be most interesting for we homestead listers who have homestead property to make a list of the ten most important things to us regarding location of home. I suspect that criteria changes after one has been in a place for five or ten years.

The only thing I seriously do not like about Heartwood is biting insects. It is notable that insect population was not on my criteria list in 1976. If it had been . . . ?



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