[ansel12]

People have plenty of room to like their own living situation whether it is city or rural, or suburban.

It is easy to argue the security of living in the city, where authority and order will first assert itself and aid be distributed.

Living alone in the country isn’t exactly the end all in safety and security if law and order doesn’t exist, pioneers and settlers knew that, as many of them were simply erased from the pages of time in an instant without even waking a neighbor.

[yorkiemom]

People have plenty of room to like their own living situation whether it is city or rural, or suburban.

It is easy to argue the security of living in the city, where authority and order will first assert itself and aid be distributed.

Living alone in the country isn’t exactly the end all in safety and security if law and order doesn’t exist, pioneers and settlers knew that, as many of them were simply erased from the pages of time in an instant without even waking a neighbor.

A sane, rational assessment. Thank you.

My planned homestead would be in the country on 40 acres, most of it hardwoods. However - I worry about being too accessible to the roving hordes that way. If I'm growing crops and raising critters, they would be easily taken (think General Sherman). Perhaps a hidden mountain retreat is safer, although not quite the place for raising food.

[tbw2]

I’m wondering how much of the idealism of rural life should be contrasted with the horrific murder rate of white farmers in South Africa. Being independent off the land sounds great, but even in medieval Europe, farmers lived in villages together and walked out to the fields because of safety in numbers.