I'm still toying with the idea of buying 20 or 30 acres over in Booger Hollar (I haven't given up on my notion of taking in all of the statues that the woke idiots want to tear down, and putting them up on my farm).
So, you globalists can keep your electric cars, your bug casseroles and your 15 minute cities.
Some people argue that most cities are already “15 Minute Cities” with necessities all within walking distance of their homes.
ReplyDeleteMr. H and I got a good look at that when, on our RV trip to New England, we took a wrong turn and ended up driving through the Bronx. Mile after mile of high rise apartments with narrow streets, little shops on the ground floor, no parking near home but cars parked nose to nose in designated, too small lots, postage-stamp "parks" on street corners, and back to back traffic on the main streets. I assume there would be subway stops, but I didn't see any where we were.
Nooooo thanks. I don't know how people live like that, except that they've probably been there all their stunted lives and don't know anything else.
I'd rather live out in the sticks and come to town once a month, if my only alternative was to live like that. As it is, I live in the burbs, but there's nothing but little towns and hamlets in my county, with lots of forest land and farms in between, so it's still good.
ReplyDeleteSounds wonderful but it gets too many storms. Be careful of the developers. They are buying up farms, etc. If it isn't happening in your area yet, it will be. The locusts have developed so much around here that there is little open land between Castroville and San Antonio (Texas). There is even a plan for 500 + houses on 200 acres just north of our little agriculture town of under 10,000. The run off water goes into a creek.
DeleteI was planning on getting 20 or 30 acres in AZ but with the McCain machine screwing it up, I'm thinking of Utah, Texas, Montana or maybe a Dakota.
ReplyDeleteI just don't like the cold or humidity, that's one of the reason I wanted AZ.
Another problem in AZ is getting water rights for your land can be tricky, so no wells.
Utah should offer many opportunities, as should west Texas. Some of those counties in west Texas have astonishingly small populations (e.g., Jeff Davis County - yes, that Jeff Davis - had a population of less than 2,000 based on the 2020 census).
ReplyDeleteSW Utah (specifically, Washington County) - which I seriously considered as a potential retirement locale - is the warmest and driest place in the state.