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The good old times were good after all. The American dream of 70 or so years ago, was also the European dream. To live happily with husband, wife and children, eventually dog or cat or canary - buy a house, raise vegetables. Like I was raised - by the time it was my turn ground was too expensive to buy a house with a large enough garden... and then it went worse and worse! Thankfully moving to the States brought back the dream and I now got a cabin in the woods, raising whatever food I can!

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That's so good to hear, Ingrid!! Wishing you all the best in your peaceful life !!🌾🍀🌲

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Keep it, while you can! We were in the woods, 30+ years ago. Then the aging farmer sold off his land that backed us, to a developer. Now, were in another creeping sub-divisions, just with bigger lots. And non-neighbor, neighbors.

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keeping an eye out in case the wasteland behind me gets sold ! Never want to be in a subdivision again !

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Big eyes!

Our local Land Trust had indicated interest. Still not sure of how it happened, but I suspect local Town Council members probably got 'contacted'.

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Beware the creeping HOA if the subdivision encroaches you

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That one meme asking to join a a Catholic farming village, having 10(!) kids and being reminded to pray when bells ring sounds exactly like the Arab nation families that also have large numbers of offspring that the wife is left to raise and also they are also reminded to pray multiple times a day by the Adhans from the minarets. Cults are the same everywhere.

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LOL our church bells over in Europe would ring every hour (and some every quarter hour) but no one ever prayed when they rung.

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Grow your own food sounds good but in reality it is impossible to do. As soon as you need money to buy something (and you need as seed is required at minimum) you are back in the 'normal' world and then you lost your independence.

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The kids and young adults today, in general, have no clue as to life, family and country just twenty years ago, let alone back to the Viet Nam, Korea, WWII era, or beyond.

Teaching American history has been subverted to indoctrinating DEI ideologies. Our young adults, in general, have been subverted to a socialist ideology.

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