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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Bev, I think you are not understanding just how rural I want to be.  I used 
Zanoni as an example becuase it is quite a drive to gainsville, which is very 
small itself.

  I was raised outside of a small town in the rural South.  My mother had a 
cousin who lived in town.  She might have spoken to her twice in fifty years, 
other than at funerals.  Rural people can be clichesque.

  How large is the town near you?.  When you first moved there did you know 
pwoplw already? Like if you or Ron had family there, that makes a difference. 
 

I want to live in the real "woods".  I think my wife could handle it and only 
go into town once a week, if she made a few friends to visit occasionally.  

I'm not knocking rural lifestyle. I 'want' 
a rural lifestyle.  I'm just trying to figure out, as a couple, how we would 
fit in , make it work, and have pleasant lives as we become older......bobford


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] rural friends was: Lloyd Kahn's latest
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 5:30 PM
> I think the same is true in any small community.  There are
> plenty of 
> ways to meet people, if that is what you desire.  I think
> it is a 
> fallacy to think that one needs lots of people around to
> meet lots of 
> people.  That is city brainwashing, thinking those of us
> who live in the 
> boonies live in isolation.  It's the same bias as those
> who think 
> homeschooled kids don't get socialized.  It's the
> same bias as those 
> city creatures who have never seen the Milky Way and are
> terrified of a 
> dark night.
> 
> Don Bowen wrote:
> > All I can go from is my experience in the Ozarks. 
> There is a health food
> > store in Ava that has twice monthly organic gardening
> meetings.  I stumbled
> > upon it one Saturday while waiting for someone else. 
> I casually met a
> > couple there that I ran into again at a farm tour
> later.  At a pioneer show
> > I meet the woman who runs the store as she was showing
> how to cane a chair
> > and was invited to a monthly discussion.  The local
> chapter of the Sierra
> > Club has almost monthly float trips in summer.  Given
> a little time and
> > inclination I know I could have meet many people.
> > 
> > I also meet several people there that were friends of
> Genes.  One in
> > particular could become a great friend to my wife, I
> really want those two
> > to meet.
> > 
> > My wife is a lot less interested in moving to Missouri
> that I am.  She likes
> > shopping and the Starbucks drive through.  She grew up
> poor on a 5000 acre
> > wheat farm in Washington and knows all about living on
> a farm and having to
> > do with little and considers living even a small piece
> of that life
> > returning to poverty.
> > 
> > In our early years she made almost all our bread, made
> clothes for herself
> > and the kids, canned and preserved all summer long. 
> Now she is a special
> > education teacher and says all that stuff is behind
> her.
> > 
> > Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> >
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
> 
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