When I was a kid, I never thought I'd one day grow up to ask myself such things or even worry about such things.
My husband and I one day have a dream to have our own homestead...it has been our dream before we got married. You know, some livestock, a nice big greenhouse, a few acres - just to be out of the way of the big city and more away from the highway in a lot where we can actually own a goat, horse, cow, or pig if we so chose.
Right now, as we all know, the house market is crazy hot for sellers, not so much for buyers. The land that is further out is of course cheaper than the land that's within a developed neighborhood. Although, some land that is like 10-20 minutes away is crazy expensive for an acre, you go out about 40-60 minutes, there's something even cheaper. It's no wonder, too, plenty of undeveloped land to work on, too. So, we're thinking of a way we can do that.
Soon, we will be looking for a new home anyway so we're going to be weighing our options on whether in town or out of town would be best.
My husband is sometimes like, "Let's just get land at this place or that place," and I'm like, "But the nearest hospital is going to be an hour or more away. What if I had a seizure and needed medical help?" and of course the conversations kind of halt. I don't think it's because he's mad at me, but because we're simply frustrated that our health is so limiting.
I'm super hesitant and I don't think I'd ever agree to something like that, especially at this point where I've had to get back into seeing a neurologist. Driving an hour and half just to see a specialist is annoying enough as it is. What if we're ever in the boat my husband can't drive and I can't drive and we have to get into town somehow? Thankfully, there is a hospital close by here if I need and that has proven useful when I got ill a year ago.
We aren't technically in the big city. We can have a limited number of chickens in our little city (more like a town), and of course garden, but there's not going to be any goats or anything else here. There aren't that many houses where we're at now, but we're still in town. I wouldn't mind being in certain areas that are a bit away from us, but still have an accessible hospital nearby. I also have my parents nearby that have helped countless times with the kids when I've had to be in the hospital or have been all drugged up on benzo's after and couldn't function....
It's still our dream, and we hope to be better at some point to feel well enough to have a whole homestead, but even a house with a really huge backyard like a few acres would be cool, too.
What about you all?
My husband and I one day have a dream to have our own homestead...it has been our dream before we got married. You know, some livestock, a nice big greenhouse, a few acres - just to be out of the way of the big city and more away from the highway in a lot where we can actually own a goat, horse, cow, or pig if we so chose.
Right now, as we all know, the house market is crazy hot for sellers, not so much for buyers. The land that is further out is of course cheaper than the land that's within a developed neighborhood. Although, some land that is like 10-20 minutes away is crazy expensive for an acre, you go out about 40-60 minutes, there's something even cheaper. It's no wonder, too, plenty of undeveloped land to work on, too. So, we're thinking of a way we can do that.
Soon, we will be looking for a new home anyway so we're going to be weighing our options on whether in town or out of town would be best.
My husband is sometimes like, "Let's just get land at this place or that place," and I'm like, "But the nearest hospital is going to be an hour or more away. What if I had a seizure and needed medical help?" and of course the conversations kind of halt. I don't think it's because he's mad at me, but because we're simply frustrated that our health is so limiting.
I'm super hesitant and I don't think I'd ever agree to something like that, especially at this point where I've had to get back into seeing a neurologist. Driving an hour and half just to see a specialist is annoying enough as it is. What if we're ever in the boat my husband can't drive and I can't drive and we have to get into town somehow? Thankfully, there is a hospital close by here if I need and that has proven useful when I got ill a year ago.
We aren't technically in the big city. We can have a limited number of chickens in our little city (more like a town), and of course garden, but there's not going to be any goats or anything else here. There aren't that many houses where we're at now, but we're still in town. I wouldn't mind being in certain areas that are a bit away from us, but still have an accessible hospital nearby. I also have my parents nearby that have helped countless times with the kids when I've had to be in the hospital or have been all drugged up on benzo's after and couldn't function....
It's still our dream, and we hope to be better at some point to feel well enough to have a whole homestead, but even a house with a really huge backyard like a few acres would be cool, too.
What about you all?