Husband Wants To Move To The Country

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Does he want to eat a lot of peaches?

Peaches for me.

They come from a cab from a man in a factory downtown.

Should be …from a can…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a five acre property with a three bed two full bath house in the Shenandoah. Once the kids are in college we'll be out there likely more than half the year if not 75% of the year. It's beautiful. Backyard is the Blue Ridge Mountains and the River.

How much did this cost you? And how much would it cost today (if that’s a different)?

And are you afraid of leaving it empty (squatters etc) until you can get out there?

[Anonymous]

I live on 2.5 acres in a place where we can be in to DC in 30 minutes (more like 45 in rush hour). You don't need to move the WV if you don't want to just to grow produce and have a few chickens.

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Anonymous wrote:I live on 2.5 acres in a place where we can be in to DC in 30 minutes (more like 45 in rush hour). You don't need to move the WV if you don't want to just to grow produce and have a few chickens.

That's true. I know a guy in PG County inside the beltway who has 1.5 acres, a greenhouse, and about 50 chickens.

[Anonymous]

He could also volunteer at CSA farms or urban farms (Common Good City Farm in DC for example) to learn skills. There is also a master gardener extension certification he could look into to develop skills before taking the plunge.

[Anonymous]

My recently deceased grandmother in Dublin had chickens, a blackberry patch and a vegetable garden all in a rowhouse backyard in a working class neighborhood.

If he asks for a pig though then its definitely immediate divorce time.

[Anonymous]

I’m in CT on 2 acres about 1.5 hour away from nyc - it’s doable but …why spend months growing something and dealing with bugs when you can just get it for .50 cents at the store lol

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Live the dream!

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Anonymous wrote:We live on .47 acres and have chickens and a big garden that provides a surprising amount of food for us. The garden can be a real PITA though - birds eat the berries, caterpillars feast on the squash, cukes, collards, rapini, etc. And foxes have eaten our chickens.

My point is that you can do a lot to grow food on a small plot, and it could be an interim step to figure out how much you can tolerate all the work that goes along with trying to separate from the grid. But if your DH is looking for space away from neighbors that's a different thing.

This. It is actually rather hard and icky work growing your own food. Have him read Little House in the Big Woods for a taste of what is really required to be self-sustaining. It’s no joke.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd divorce him. I'm not even kidding. I barely tolerate the suburbs when I go there and am so relieved to get back to a major city. I am crawling out of my skin in rural areas. This would be a total deal-breaker for me.

Horrors. Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Tell him to just have an affair.
Men are seriously so annoying.

[Anonymous]

Step 1: Figure out how you feel about this plan.

Until you know what you want, any advice you’re going to get is worthless. It doesn’t matter if other people think growing your own food in the country would be fun or ridiculous. It only matters if you want to do it or not. So, do you?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in CT on 2 acres about 1.5 hour away from nyc - it’s doable but …why spend months growing something and dealing with bugs when you can just get it for .50 cents at the store lol

.50 cents? Most produce these days cost way more than that. Organic costs even more than that. Most conventional vegetables these days coat at least $1. That can add up if you eat a ton of produce for a family of 4. Inflation prices are only getting worse. People are barely going to be able to afford even things like cucumbers.

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My husbands brother lives in Texas and grows his own food head round. They don’t have chickens but they have a very large vegetable garden that spans about half an acre. They don’t buy any produce from the store anymore. They can or freeze everything once the season changes. Both of them love doing it though. I don’t see ah issue but your husband doesn’t need 2-3 acres to have a vegetable garden. Get half an acre of land and start small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. He doesn’t want to become a farmer and own animals or anything. He is talking about growing some of our food like produce and possibly getting chickens ( for eggs). He is fine with not getting chickens, but with the cost of living and inflation, he thinks it would be cool to be able to grow our own food. It wouldn’t be enough to fully live off, but we would be able to save money and grow our own food that we know is healthy.

He is not talking about living in a super rural area either. Most of the suburbs we looked at don’t offer more than .25 acres of land. He thinks moving to a place a little more rural but by the city or suburbs would be cool.

We are not wealthy but we make good money and he won’t quit his job. He works from hone and can work from anywhere most of the time.

Well the it’s not really the country then. Give it a try. Maybe rent a weekend place to see it out.