HOW RURAL IS RURAL?

[godutch]

True. But parts of my family have been in New York State since it was New Amsterdam, and NO ONE is chasing me off. ;-). The resources are outstanding. The cities and politicians are . . . corrupted.

Amen!

 

[Gordoncourtney]

I sit on the patio overcast skies reading again your stories most enjoyable at 81 a bit of cancer , love my 100 yard long 1/3 acre plot of woods and trees this morning shooting arrows at 40 yards . Only stopped as foxy came down for food. In a little village 17 miles from London . Pigeons and squirrels to shoot with my pcp airguns lived here since 1986 when I bought it from my uncle. We built it in 1951. Love to you all from across the big pond. Thank you for you lovely stories

 

[Brazos John]

Foxy is the size of a dog!
The only fox I've ever seen was a lot closer to the ground.
But the long, bushy tail is unmistakable.
Great photos, and a neat look into a life so far from Texas!
Keep on keeping on!

 

[Eutycus]

Wide Open Spaces,Community, Hamlet, Village, Town, or a City. I guess I'm either in a small community or a hamlet but it sure beats living in a town or city.

 

[snakebit]

Wide Open Spaces,Community, Hamlet, Village, Town, or a City. I guess I'm either in a small community or a hamlet but it sure beats living in a town or city.

Amen brother Louis!

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Foxy is the size of a dog!
The only fox I've ever seen was a lot closer to the ground.
But the long, bushy tail is unmistakable.
Great photos, and a neat look into a life so far from Texas!
Keep on keeping on!

Foxy

 

[mushka]

Own land? I paid cash for my acre with a house and outbuilding but I have to give the county a large portion of my income yearly or they will move me off of it and sell it to someone who will keep paying the taxes . We own no real property in this country, in one way or another we pay to stay on it. Taxes, insurances, utilities keep us in debt of a sort.

 

[Stumpkiller]

That is true. If I stopped paying property and school taxes on my 20.2 acres it would be seized and go up for auction in, I believe, 18 months. They do accept partial payments for 24 months (with 1% interest) to catch up. So there is some grace period. Thankfully our county is in no hurry to displace people from their homes and it commonly goes twice that long before action takes place. But it does happen in the end.

 

[sheriff john]

Rural us where we can pee off the porch without checking to see if anyone's watching. Make that the front porch. In the daylight. Regardless of your gender. Without hitting someone else's hound dog. That's "rural" (or you are a real sleaze).

 

[Coinneach]

Rural us where we can pee off the porch without checking to see if anyone's watching. Make that the front porch. In the daylight. Regardless of your gender. Without hitting someone else's hound dog. That's "rural" (or you are a real sleaze).

For Aussie Bushmen, the world in general is his urinal.

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Rural us where we can pee off the porch without checking to see if anyone's watching. Make that the front porch. In the daylight. Regardless of your gender. Without hitting someone else's hound dog. That's "rural" (or you are a real sleaze).

Watch which way the wind is blowing first !!!!!!

 

[Gordoncourtney]

That is true. If I stopped paying property and school taxes on my 20.2 acres it would be seized and go up for auction in, I believe, 18 months. They do accept partial payments for 24 months (with 1% interest) to catch up. So there is some grace period. Thankfully our county is in no hurry to displace people from their homes and it commonly goes twice that long before action takes place. But it does happen in the end.

My local council tax is a £100 a week. Most of it goes to help the down and outs up north, it’s another tax by the government collected by the local council, its using up all our savings , they don’t care !!!!!!!

 

[Coinneach]

Watch which way the wind is blowing first !!!!!!

And electric fences....

 

[Howard Pippin]

Watch which way the wind is blowing first !!!!!!

Just two things you're sure to win, never cut towards yourself or pee in the wind.

 

[Eutycus]

Just two things you're sure to win, never cut towards yourself or pee in the wind.

Thought I was real smart as a boy. Instead of dismounting the old John Deere to take a piss I just stood on the axle. The wind blew the pee right into the spark plug. Ouch, those old tractors had magnetos.

 

[smokepolehall]

I am living on 6 acres & you can't see a neighbor in any direction except at night. You spot light showing here n there. I have 20-30 deer on my place at any time day or night. Groundhogs tree rats several coons & couple of Bob cats. Yotes & i shoot them on sight. Couple-three foxes. Lots of birds & turkeys. I hunt the deer during legal shooting season

 

[RiverRat]

If you have cell service, you ain’t rural.

 

[AlexB]

This is my back piece where we walk the dogs.

 

[waksupi]

If you have cell service, you ain’t rural.

I have cell service, but have to use a booster tower. Still pretty sketchy service.
For a lot of years, I was the last cabin on this road, peace and quiet. I had hunting rights on nine sections of adjoining land, plus the national forest.
The past 20 years, at least 30 Mcmansions have been built on up the mountain from me. A few of them have been here long enough to find out what a bad winter is. They had to move out for the winter. I knew the area well before I bought my land, and knew this is as far up the mountain you can pretty reliably get out in the winter. There was only one winter I figured it was bad enough to park my truck down the mountain. When we get out of the drought, and have another old fashion Montana winter, I suspect there will be an exodus, leaving me the last person on the road again, at least through the winter.

 

[Gordoncourtney]

I am living on 6 acres & you can't see a neighbor in any direction except at night. You spot light showing here n there. I have 20-30 deer on my place at any time day or night. Groundhogs tree rats several coons & couple of Bob cats. Yotes & i shoot them on sight. Couple-three foxes. Lots of birds & turkeys. I hunt the deer during legal shooting season

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