It’s a double edged sword though.
One chainsaw accident or heart attack and the further out you are...
Don’t get me wrong though, nothing I like better than being a long way away from people.
True.
“One chainsaw accident or heart attack and...
It doesn’t even have to be complicated...fall down in your driveway collecting you garbage can from the curb....and detach your quad from your knee cap or fall down a couple of stairs and boom... shattered wrist.
Hit a divet mowing the yard... torn ACL.
Boom. Compound fracture, 4 broken (not cracked) ribs.
And that’s without even trying. Throw in some weather and.... “Jack you dead”
Get helicopter flight insurance if you don’t already have it. It’s a couple franklin units per year.
Sadly, you are right. We have friends who had another friend, and we would see him annually at a Christmas gathering, if not once in a while otherwise during the year. He was a bachelor, but one of the kindest, most generous people you’d ever meet. He lived way out and took care of his home and land mostly by himself. He always told us that as long as we had a useful skill, we could come live with him on his 30 acres when the SHTF.
We now have to come up with a new plan. One day in 2020 he was working his land with a tractor. He got in a pickle somehow, and the tractor flipped and ended on top of him. He was crushed, died instantly. He was found with his dog at his side a day later. It took months for our friends to find out what had really happened, but someone in his family finally reached out to them. It was such a tragedy. Miss him.
Lived rural for past 28 +++ years.
Used up 7 chains on my Stihl chain saw, clearing out dead/dying/crippled trees on 5 acres.
Was 55 then.
Sold that property & built fencing on 5 +++ acres for 12 horse enclosures. 226 T-posts. over 160 wood posts inn cement—Over 2 1/2 MILES of hot wire...Was 65 when I did that.
Am 82 now & still living rural.