Urban Expatriate’s “Ideal Country Home”
Gene GeRue’s Ruralize.com website promotes the homesteading author’s book, How to Find Your Ideal Country Home: A Comprehensive Guide
Until urban centers in the U.S. become something other than crime-riddled, polluted cesspools of disease and poverty, I’m taking the rural side of the debate. Although I’m on five acres in Pahrump at the moment, I have far too many projects that require my presence in Vegas and Los Angeles to say I’ve made a clean break. I’m working on it.
I’d be thrilled to have new designs solve the problems of the cities. Sure, multi-layer forest gardens and other edible landscapes can be created in small spaces, such as reported by Ilex at the Homesteading In A Condo blog, but who can afford the land? Rural land is often one tenth the price per acre.
An ebook in progress by GeRue “and many friends” called The Complete Guide to Country Living can be read online. An excerpt warns against moving to the country unprepared:
Rural life for many is a wonderful alternative to city crime, crowding and cost of living. The majority of rural counties are gaining population. Those moving from city to country are often ill equipped for their new lives. From a place of public utilities they now find themselves in charge of their own water and waste systems. Enthralled with the concept of self-reliance and by acres of space they plant huge gardens and bring home cute kids, calves, colts, and shoats. The garden grows, goes to weeds and bugs, the veggies rot. Cute little animals become seriously large charges that injure themselves, get sick, resist confinement, and eat horrendous amounts of expensive feed. Delight and amusement changes to consternation and disenchantment.
Let us have none of that.
This online work in progress mentions permaculture, making a living on the internet, and ham radio. My way of thinking.
