“This isn’t the first time you posted this. I remember this story. Great story.”
Thank you. I figure that with the huge FR audience I’d have mostly new people reading it. It bothered me to sell a really nice house on one acre of woods in a nice neighborhood. But it was the best decision I ever made. Changing my lifestyle to live in the woods was 100% positive. I never hear my neighbors, unless they’re killing deer in their back yards and that’s “mostly” during the hunting season. I have no lawn requiring weekly cutting. No bushes to trim; just trees, trees, and more trees. (My cat sits and waits for the few grass chutes and chews them the minute they show.) The two downs are: dirt road and distance to town. I wash my car frequently and it always looks bad, and I’m 18 miles from the edge of town. That’s a gallon of gas in my Marauder, which I no longer drive. I bought a Jetta TDI “Sportwagen.”
What I learned though is that any house will do. Why do people enslave themselves to live like the Joneses? Nearby Wakulla county is 70% mobile homes and all of their schools are A’s and B’s. But where I live there are only a handful of A and B schools. (A mobile home in an A or B district carries a premium for location.)
I ask myself that almost every day.