Originally Posted by
JimmyD714
Well first off anyone on here who claims to live "off the grid" is a liar because they wouldn't have cellular or ethernet to post in here about it. Seems like what you're going for is "self sufficient", not really "off grid". We're in the same boat and want to do the same.
That meat looks great, and those are massive eggs! We're anxious to get out of this neighborhood and onto a few acres where we can at least raise chickens, rabbits, and maybe some smaller ruminant meat animals like goats or sheep. However, with house prices and interest rates what they are, I'd effectively be making a lot less money if we were to make the jump now. I like our relatively cheap mortgage.
My family lives on 55 acres in Middle TN and we're highly considering just building on their land. It'll be ours one day anyway, hopefully many, many years down the road.
They aren't raising animals but my dad kills enough deer to keep them fed year round, and grows way more fruit and vegetables then they are able to consume every year. They never buy meat and they'd have no issue with us raising some animals.
Sucks things have gotten the way they've gotten with inflation in the housing market but it seems like the days are getting away from us when a guy can work hard and afford to buy a house on that kind of acreage. Prices are increasing at a significantly faster rate than wages are.
And living 2 hrs away from a metropolitan area where it's still somewhat affordable is risky in my line of work. Right now I work 100% remote with travel as needed, and remote opportunities are becoming more common, but I'm always thinking about a backup plan and that might require going back into the office. My wife stays home to raise/school our daughters so I can't put us in a risky situation where I may be without income for a while if I lose a job.
Seems like Tennessee is our best option for being a lot more self sufficient and living the kind of life we want to live and raise our daughters in.
Sounds familiar. We bought 12 acres (closer to town that I would have liked, but wife wanted to stay close so that we would be in range for in home therapies for a special needs child). We could have gotten a much larger tract further out, so that was a tough pill, and now prices have gone insane. But we're working on being self-reliant; currently have pigs, chickens, ducks, goats, rabbits, bees, a garden, and working on establishing a food forest. We work remote and home school kids. This is how life was meant to be lived, imo. It's the shangri-la.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
-Samuel Adams
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