If I’m any more than a 15 minute walk to my nearest grocer I consider it hell. Fuck needing to pay insurance, maintenance, and gas costs just to be able to perform basic chores.
Needing to waste an hour just to get groceries sounds so dumb.
We don’t need to go to town. We grow almost all of our own food for the entire year. We don’t need movies or bars or restaurants or even…shocker…full time soul sucking jobs. though we do work for some cash flow. We have the internet and piracy, friends with back yards and basements and we can cook just fine, in fact I used to be a sous chef in a former life and is much of the reasom why we produce our own. We live on less money as a family of five than most single people do. Around ~$25,000/Canadian a year. A family of five.
Our impact is minimal compared to yours I bet, considering all my families food with the exception of a few items comes from the 250 acres of land surrounding my house and we care for that land to ensure we minimize the impact from our agriculture practices as much as we can. We use no motorized equipment and farm using regenerative practices.You probably don’t know or care what that means though. Our farm encompasses 1/4 acre. The site where our 3 bedroom home for, again a family of five, sits and is the size of an average “lawn” or “yard” here.
That land also feeds my sister’s family (4 adults who live in the city four hours away) and my father’s (2 adults). We also provide to our local food bank all season long and barter a lot with our neighbors.
And you wonder why there are monumental societal rifts between rural areas and urban. It’s because of people like you who “know better” but have zero actual knowledge or experience to back it up. Just blathering mouthpieces full of nonsense.
The point is they don’t need to go into town often. They have everything they need on their land. Different people prioritize different things and have different wants.
If I’m any more than a 15 minute walk to my nearest grocer I consider it hell. Fuck needing to pay insurance, maintenance, and gas costs just to be able to perform basic chores.
Needing to waste an hour just to get groceries sounds so dumb.
We don’t need to go to town. We grow almost all of our own food for the entire year. We don’t need movies or bars or restaurants or even…shocker…full time soul sucking jobs. though we do work for some cash flow. We have the internet and piracy, friends with back yards and basements and we can cook just fine, in fact I used to be a sous chef in a former life and is much of the reasom why we produce our own. We live on less money as a family of five than most single people do. Around ~$25,000/Canadian a year. A family of five.
Our impact is minimal compared to yours I bet, considering all my families food with the exception of a few items comes from the 250 acres of land surrounding my house and we care for that land to ensure we minimize the impact from our agriculture practices as much as we can. We use no motorized equipment and farm using regenerative practices.You probably don’t know or care what that means though. Our farm encompasses 1/4 acre. The site where our 3 bedroom home for, again a family of five, sits and is the size of an average “lawn” or “yard” here.
That land also feeds my sister’s family (4 adults who live in the city four hours away) and my father’s (2 adults). We also provide to our local food bank all season long and barter a lot with our neighbors.
And you wonder why there are monumental societal rifts between rural areas and urban. It’s because of people like you who “know better” but have zero actual knowledge or experience to back it up. Just blathering mouthpieces full of nonsense.
The point is they don’t need to go into town often. They have everything they need on their land. Different people prioritize different things and have different wants.