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How to do it PROPERLY
- diamond lil
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LOL, the only thing I envy is the cellar.
"However, by living off the land and using solar power, they manage to survive on just $12,000 (£9,600) a year."
Me and the Brambling live on less than that.
"However, by living off the land and using solar power, they manage to survive on just $12,000 (£9,600) a year."
Me and the Brambling live on less than that.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain~anon
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Me too.Brambles wrote:LOL, the only thing I envy is the cellar.
"However, by living off the land and using solar power, they manage to survive on just $12,000 (£9,600) a year."
Me and the Brambling live on less than that.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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"However, by living off the land and using solar power, they manage to survive on just $12,000 (£9,600) a year."
I have to say for people who live off-grid, that's a very expensive lifestyle.
Last time I was unemployed I could just about make do on Job Seekers, (if you ignore the mortgage payments), so about £4000, but then that includes all the utility bills, buying all my food and fuel for my car.
I have to say for people who live off-grid, that's a very expensive lifestyle.
Last time I was unemployed I could just about make do on Job Seekers, (if you ignore the mortgage payments), so about £4000, but then that includes all the utility bills, buying all my food and fuel for my car.
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Yup! I could go for that, at least I could if it weren't for my r.a. which doesn't like the cold . and £9600 a year .. a pay rise too!
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Its the kid I feel sorry for, it seems quite self indulgent by the parents to have a teenager living without other kids like this.
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I'm jealous, but realistic, we couldn't stick it, we need the NHS far too much, don't like the cold, but still, the freedom it's awesome, the cellar yes I like that too, if I could open my door and find everything to hand as it is in the city,and close it and feel as far away as they are.... semi rural that'd do me
You'd think as a shooting enthusiast I'd yearn for that lifestyle and as you'd expect I see the photos and want to identify their guns but in all honesty I've no desire to shoot anything other than paper or clays.
You'd think as a shooting enthusiast I'd yearn for that lifestyle and as you'd expect I see the photos and want to identify their guns but in all honesty I've no desire to shoot anything other than paper or clays.
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.
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I too do not like to shoot and/or kill things these days, but just having the space to have your own ad hoc range is great. I have been using the silage pit as my butts for 19 years now, nice and safe but not much fun wading to place or retrieve targets !
Since I no longer live at the farm, for now at least, its a bit more of a hike, but living rural is great... until you get some problems, like healthcare. Then it wears thin quickly.
Since I no longer live at the farm, for now at least, its a bit more of a hike, but living rural is great... until you get some problems, like healthcare. Then it wears thin quickly.
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'Zactly! Which is why I live where I do. I too moved from rurality into town and on the whole I haven't regretted it. There comes a time when you accept you need certain aspects of society more than a rural retreat. There are two things I miss, the chickens (but watch this space!) and my mahoosive walk-in scullery.shocker wrote:I too do not like to shoot and/or kill things these days, but just having the space to have your own ad hoc range is great. I have been using the silage pit as my butts for 19 years now, nice and safe but not much fun wading to place or retrieve targets !
Since I no longer live at the farm, for now at least, its a bit more of a hike, but living rural is great... until you get some problems, like healthcare. Then it wears thin quickly.
I don't miss twatty neighbours phoning me at stupid o'clock to ask if my electric is on, nor do I miss the howling gales that seemed to blast through every crack and nook of the cottage. I don't miss the whacking great heating bill or the boy racers who thought country roads their own personal race track.
I may be in a city, but in all honesty, it's quieter here than the village. Oh and my insurance went down £6 a month when I moved into town!
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain~anon
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I can believe that, the background noise in the city not being too far from nightlife is bad, but I remember once visiting someone I met on a job who wanted a 3 phases converter connected for an automatic hammer he'd got to go with his forge, well the noise the bloody sheep were making in the field behind his house It was like prime minister's question time in full flowBrambles wrote:I may be in a city, but in all honesty, it's quieter here than the village.
If I ever get the chance to have a farm I reckon any animals would have to be a certain distance away from the house and not in the side where we sleep, oh and I remember going on the moors to stargaze one time, we were near say 3/4 of a mile away from a farm house and there was a genny going, so machinery would be an issue too.
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.