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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

DH and I had an agreement and a 10 year plan.  We'd live where I absolutely 
love (the coast) and buy a house that would ideally grow the equity to buy 
land.  Then we'd buy the land and move a tad more inland.  He HATES any kind 
of cold.  I absolutely HATE the heat.

So, we bought the house.  We tripled the buying price.  Sold the house but 
then couldn't buy where we wanted to because of the dweebs from LaLaLand and 
Silicon Valley who had sold their McMansions for ridiculous prices and 
started bidding wars on land.

Now we have the land.  We have the heat he wanted and I did NOT, but we have 
the land.

The city boy (from Mass) is happy with the heat AND the land has become 
contagious.  If we go to the "big" city or even the small city (Eureka), he 
gets buggy and can't wait to get back to peace and quiet!

I guess you have to find someone who isn't ridgid.  He got what he wanted 
and has come to love what I wanted.  In fact, he's become the original 
scrounger.  He gets livid now when he sees people wasting things that he 
could find uses for <g>  Last time we made the quarterly haul to the dump, 
he came out fuming!  Someone had dumped a bunch of odd size 2x4s.  The local 
dump won't allow you to remove anything and I'm surprised he didn't crack a 
tooth he was gritting his teeth so hard <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 

> Guys, educate me on this.  I have never known of a
> couple who went into
> homesteading where one was a devotee and the other
> indulged it for the sake of the
> relationship that did not end badly.  Either the people
> split up or else they
> return to the urban life with the ex-homesteader
> miserable.
>
> Know anyone?