Need some reassurance

hahaha well there's another reason not to go

I'd go with ATNO's advice. wicked......

I've got an aunt and uncle in Montana that are really super self sufficient, if they can't grow it or catch it or hunt it or build it themselves, then they have friends or neighbors who can. Like they grow slaughter chickens, and they have friends with beehives, so they trade them dead chickens for honey, and other things like that.

That's a great life. And it would be a great life for you, as you like all the outdoorsy stuff and living off the land and whatnot. I say go for it. Bet you never get bored

That would be great to do, I would do that instead of the military in an instant. they live on 80 acres out in the Clark Fork River valley, and when they bought their land 17 or 18 years ago they only paid something like $250 an acre, but these days with all the rich yuppies escaping the big city for the quiet mountains the land value has shot up to almost $3000 an acre, so I would never be able to do it the same way they do. They're sitting on a gold mine and they refuse to sell out and loose the good thing they've got going for them in the middle of nowhere.

It really sounds like a wonderful life. Heck I'd want to do it.

Ditto that! In a heartbeat even!

I'm one of those people that wouldn't ... I have always been a city kid more ... I love being in busy places with lots of people everywhere ... I'm pretty sure I'd fit in perfectly in NYC ...

I agree with the farm, it worked for Pootie Tang.

I thought NYC was a "jungle".

hehe nice one ...

//maybe an Urban Jungle ...

hahaha it's funny really, the place I was happiest ever was Tokyo, and that's an urban jungle if I've ever seen one. And like R_T, if anyone asked I'd say I was a city kid through and through. And yet I just know I'd love living on a farm, or in the Australian outback (sort of like McLeod's Daughters, if anyone's seen that show), or in a little Italian/ Spanish/ Dalmatian town by the sea, with a little boat to go fishing in and a little bicycle to ride down to the local market to by fresh bread and cheese every morning. Pick tomatoes from the garden.

I suppose the ideal thing would be living somewhere natural and idyllic but being within reach of a big city when you need that civilisation high...

have your cake and eat it too, as they say.......

I spent a few days in Chicago last summer, pretty much all down town. It was nice because everything you could ever need was all within a couple blocks of where we were. That is the nice thing about big cities compaired to small time po-dunk Nebraska towns.