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I understand your plight
We looked for some "camping /retirement" land for a while
We finally found 20 acres 99 miles from our home and made the deal. Parked a camper down there and sunk a pump into the existing well. We made it down there maybe twice a summer because it was 99 miles away. Not that far really but still finding the time to haul everyone and everything down there became a problem. The highway to and from was crowded and the prices to do things down there expensive. So getting down there for any real time to enjoy ourselves became more and more difficult.
After about 8 years of that we made a much larger move, we put ourselves in a position to be able to just live on the land. However it turned out the best place for us to do so was 1300 miles away... Now we are off grid, on a river, way back in the woods, and facing all the new challenges that come with that.
Best move we ever made!!!!
Not easy, but worth every blood sweat and tear.
314 acres is awesome! 4.5 hour commute not so awesome.
We have neighbors around here that come up a few times a summer and maybe once in the winter, most of them building cabins and use the land for recreation.
A few of these guys drive 12-14 hours to get here!!!
I was not having that, it took years to make plan and prep for this move. Back to our roots is what I call it, I think my son and my two grand kids will thank me for it someday
A bit Jelly
Same wish here. As far off grid as possible. I don't care to play the municipality monopoly games, Don't want neighbors I can hear argue or bump uglies louder than myself, Can't/won't do apartments or track homes, and I want to grow my own foods and even some animals. The idea's of thoughts and designs i've put pen to paper with in architecture sense as well make use of the land, seasons, ground water, and have a personal ECO system of my own hopes is another cog in the wheel of freedom to me and mine. Plus with a 100 Acres or so. I can chip a 3-5 acre parcel for each of my 3 sons at some point to build on if I don't go that route to build some smaller additionally designed home ideas I have and or leave them with.
I plan on making the best of what I can here in a mountain/desert/canyon area I can. Looking forward to the challenges that will come with this and also all of the adventures and experiences too.
TheArcticWolf1911 wrote:
I'd love to have some land like that for my own personal shooting range. Too bad Indiana doesn't have that kind of land area. Mostly city here.
Grew up between concrete jungle and suburbs of O.C. and Detroit, so you understand. And one of the things I want is more freedom and time away from encroaching neighbors. So being able to alter the landscape some with regards to natural preservation aspects. I too will be addressing the issue of a widened dug in shooting range not that I won't be in an area that wouldn't allow me to walk out to the back porch/balcony and have a rousing game of skeet shooting [NOT that kind] with the woman on a lazy fall Saturday morning.
And I'd bet you could find some pretty large parcels of unincorporated land for relatively cheap even in Indiana. The sacrifice is driving an hr out of your way or so to be away from the grossly overpopulated man-made "conveniences". That includes calling 911...
The commute for me has to be within an hr or so to work/shop, and still be within 20-30 mins of the basics of medical attention beyond my own scope.
Last edited on Sun Sep 9th, 2018 08:59 pm by Undrstm8ed
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