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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Gene, I have a serious question.  Missouri is beautiful, water is plentiful, 
land is reasonably priced.  But, the land that interests me is always in 
out-of-the-way places, like Zanoni.  

What do you do for culture?  My wife has lived in the city her entire life.  
Where would she make friends with other women.  I can stay alone, if left 
alone to my own devices, and not care.  My wife goes to strabucks, and to the 
museums.  She is not as bad as many women, but, I just can't see her being 
happy without a group of women friends with which to do stuff.

I own a piece of land near willow springs.  I'm looking at another piece, 
now.  But, I'm not sure I,m being realistic.  Maybe I should try to find a 
place in a small progressive town.  But, what I really want is to be 
completely off the radar.  I don't even want a G-d d*amn address ......bobf

--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Lloyd Kahn's latest
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 4:13 PM
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:48 PM, bob ford wrote:
> 
> >   The problem , many times, is building inspectors
> stomp on creative  
> > ideas.  I know they are there to make sure the habitat
> is sturdy and  
> > safe, but they tend to bind you to ways of which they
> are familiar.
> 
> Homes built by owners on rural code-free property are as
> sunlight to  
> darkness compared to urban tract homes.
> 
> One of your criteria for finding rural property should be
> low taxes.  
> Low taxes are strong indicators of minimal bureaucracy. In
> my chosen  
> county in Missouri there is no code enforcement for the
> simple reason  
> that the state does not provide funds for same and we
> county voters  
> would never assess ourselves to create such a loss of
> freedom.