you can have horses if you wish to move pretty far out and compromise on the home...say a trailer or Jim Walter prefab
land depends on where you are but most states outside the coasts have land around 1000/acre withing 50 miles of a metro area...might be a mix of scrub or hill and some pasture
and horses...anywhere from free to sky is the limit
but a decent 15-16 hand ridable 5-15 year old gelding with some skills can be had for less than 1000 easy
food...depends on rain and ground cover...Mr Rogers joint looks like he has to buy hay but where I am you can go with just grass and a little feed in green months and stock up hay in winter...buy hay when it's low (like not now) and average horse eats maybe 2-3 bucks hay a day...if on only hay diet...but they won't eat tarnished hay like cows...gotta be dry...best to buy bales not rolls
it's all about choices..get yer ass outta the city
even backwoods trailer beats inner city nothingness
there is no doubt of that
you have to move to where life fits you...I have and will go even further out when I can but 10 acres 30 miles south of Nashville with decent schools will do for now
Not in Iowa, unfortunately. We moved from NE Indiana (10 acres) and paid more for our two acres here.
it's all about choices..get yer ass outta the city even backwoods trailer beats inner city nothingness there is no doubt of that
No doubt. I miss one or at max 2 days a year because of weather. So what? The trains run along the Mississippi about four miles away and we can hear them on a still night. We have deer (field rats at times), raccoons, opossums, field mice, squirrels, chipmunks, bats, and fireflies in season. We also have those damnable Japanese beetles that removed all peaches on one tree before we could get to them.
I drive 20 minutes to work through fields of corn, alfalfa, soybeans and wheat. There are four Casey's gas stations within 10 minutes of my house, and a full lineup of 3 Super Walmarts, a dozen Hy-Vees, and several Best Buys, Targets, Menards, Lowes and Home Depots, and, well, you name it in the nearby communities.
But in our screened in back deck, I can sit in the evening with my wife and read, talk, or just listen to the tree frogs. As I write this, I kick myself because I don't do it often enough.
you have to move to where life fits you...I have and will go even further out when I can but 10 acres 30 miles south of Nashville with decent schools will do for now
I grew up in a metropolis of what's now about 9 million people or so. You are preaching to the converted, brother.