Prepping, relocation and moral dilemmas
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:20 pm
I have only been prepping for almost 3 years but the information and encouragement which I have gained from this site has been invaluable, thank you to you all. I have always been a little wary of online communities but feel quite at home here Not complacent though and still have lots to learn but a hell of a lot more prepared than I was when I first joined.
If admin feel this doesn't belong here, please feel free to delete. I mentioned in a thread a few days ago that we are desperate to leave the rat race and plan to relocate within the UK to somewhere with enough land to grow some of our own food, both crops and livestock (we do have experience of livestock), where we can increase our preps too. If we can find the right property we potentially have a way of bringing in a small income. Both of us are happy to work part time, if required but want to spend the majority of our time and energy into learning new skills, prepping and actually enjoying the years we have left in our own space out in the countryside, whilst being as self sufficient as possible.
So the moral dilemmas, we have grown up children, some are settled, the youngest at 21 i somewhat a loner and doesn't like people much! She knows of our plans but is undecided from week to week as to whether she wants to relocate with us or remain here in her own place but close to her siblings. Both of us still have our parents, who are getting elderly, one set who are remarkably young at heart and fairly lively, the others who aren't quite as sprightly. We both have siblings who are located throughout the UK and so we take the majority of the responsibility for our parents when ill health etc strikes and they need additional support which has been an issue recently. My question is, do we put things in place and relocate to follow our dreams and enjoy the rest of our time together, or do we remain here, forget our dreams and continue prepping as we currently are and continue with our current lifestyle to support those who need us here. Just to add, property and land prices in our current location far exceed where we plan to move so the options are remain here or relocate.
If admin feel this doesn't belong here, please feel free to delete. I mentioned in a thread a few days ago that we are desperate to leave the rat race and plan to relocate within the UK to somewhere with enough land to grow some of our own food, both crops and livestock (we do have experience of livestock), where we can increase our preps too. If we can find the right property we potentially have a way of bringing in a small income. Both of us are happy to work part time, if required but want to spend the majority of our time and energy into learning new skills, prepping and actually enjoying the years we have left in our own space out in the countryside, whilst being as self sufficient as possible.
So the moral dilemmas, we have grown up children, some are settled, the youngest at 21 i somewhat a loner and doesn't like people much! She knows of our plans but is undecided from week to week as to whether she wants to relocate with us or remain here in her own place but close to her siblings. Both of us still have our parents, who are getting elderly, one set who are remarkably young at heart and fairly lively, the others who aren't quite as sprightly. We both have siblings who are located throughout the UK and so we take the majority of the responsibility for our parents when ill health etc strikes and they need additional support which has been an issue recently. My question is, do we put things in place and relocate to follow our dreams and enjoy the rest of our time together, or do we remain here, forget our dreams and continue prepping as we currently are and continue with our current lifestyle to support those who need us here. Just to add, property and land prices in our current location far exceed where we plan to move so the options are remain here or relocate.