re: Qualms of a late 20's redneck city slicker

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Move to the small town and work hard at making the best living you can make out there. In the rat race, you need a lot more money because you are trying to ease the misery of city life. In the country, you won't need all of that stuff or the pressure of earning enough to buy it all.

And don't think that living in a city will make your spouse happy either. She'll be caught up in the rat race as much or more than you.

As far as cultural and political awareness, you can develop that in other ways besides residing in a big city.

My advice, for what it's worth, is keep it simple and you won't regret it.

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This is on the money.

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Are we the same person?

I'm pretty much accepted that I'm going to be living in a city, probably till my retirement. As someone who was raised in very rural LA, it has it's perks. It doesn't take an hour to run to town to get ketchup anymore

With that said, my desire to have land, a garden, and basically be self sufficient is always in the back of my mind.

I go back home to my parents place in the middle of the woods, surrounded by 35,000 acres of national forest, see my Dad's garden, see him shooting squirrels, rabbits, deer, etc off his front porch and cooking them that night, all that just makes me miss it more.

I do like my "city life" though. I like the aspect of a neighborhood and community. I like the restaurants, the shops, etc. I like the 5 minute commute.

I'm content right now, but the calmness of the rural life will always be in the back of my mind.

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We are the same person. Hell i even wore Toms for a litte while.

Coco, i understand exactly where youre coming from and slickback i have met you like once or twice and can tell exactly what your motives are.

I'm from a town of about 600, lived in a small city probably 250,000, then lived in college towns <100,000, now I live in Philly pop 1.5 million. Like you I make more money in the city than I could out in the country or a smaller town. However, I have realized recently that I'm not at all happy living in the city. I've decided that I'd take a pay cut to be someplace that makes me happy to live there. Besides the only reason I make money is to live and do the things I love to do, I'll just cut my cost of living to match my income. I was much happier in grad school making 13k a year and being in a smaller town, than I am making many times that and living in a big city.

Living in the city isnt that bad. Hell we live in the same neighborhood, and i think we can both agree that it has a small town feel, even being right in the middle of everything. Im just sick of the crime in the immediate areas, the traffic, the rat race, the catholic school tuitions, the keeping up with the jones' attitude of the society, all the bullshite. I want to shoot skeet in my backyard and drive 20 minutes into my woods. With my job, im also not allowed to take off any substantial time during hunting season, so that only adds to my frustration

I think Merle said it best

Big City

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I would be miserable in the suburbs. It's just like living in the city with the commute of rural life

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That was one thing I didn't like about where I grew up in BR. We were still in BR technically but to get from LSU back home was 30 minutes or more often times, yet we still couldn't get away with shooting guns (other than CB caps). If I am going to live in a city, I might as well enjoy the perks of living in the city.

That being said, the old lady found a gem of a property south of S-port off hwy 1. WAY outside the budget right now but maybe not forever. 10ish acres I think with some pasture, woods, and no neighbors around. House is gorgeous too. That's the goal for the future. Would be 20 minutes from a grocery store/work but could shoot squirrels off the back porch.

I'm a bit ahead of some of you guys and debated this some time back, albeit it really wasn't much of a debate for me.

I got my degree from LSU and went back home as soon as I could.

Among other things I've spent part of the last ten years leasing duck blinds and deer leases to guys who made more money than I was making, but all they could think of was leaving the city to spend time at that duck blind or deer lease. I live there year around.

Everybody has to make their own decisions, but I felt like I was richer.

Lots of awfully good guys, but in a way I pitied them, calling from New Orleans and Baton Rouge and Alexandria, wondering if their blind had water or if there were ducks on the farm. I got up every morning to see the sunrise over the open fields, in the woods and on the water......and then watched it set there in the evening. I had a big garden, my lab rode with me everywhere I went and I know everybody by name.

I'm not taking a shot at you guys that live urban or suburban and commute to the camp. Just sayin the decision was easy for me.

I grew up in BR(Central)and lived most of my adult life in Denham Springs.I work shift work in BR and my off days always ended up in SW Miss with my dad or son.

In 2003 dad bought some land above Liberty and we started planning on building a cabin on it for a family getaway.The cabin was finished in 2009.He loved it and always wanted it to be his "home".He died in 2010 at the age of 66 and it bothered me that he never got to be where he was truly happy.I have 2 sisters that have no interest in living in the country so my wife and I found ourselves with a cabin and 90 acres thanks to my mom.We talked about it alot and and decided to sell our house in Watson and move to the cabin.That was the best decision we could have ever made for our family.We lived in the cabin for 2.5 yrs and finished building our new home right before Thanksgiving.
Alot of people ask me how I can drive 70 miles to work each way but its actually a peaceful ride and not bad at all.
We deer hunt on our own place,the kids play hide and seek,chase and I dont have to worry about where they are.Its great for us but not for everybody.I would say go for it and have no regrets.

Eta: wrong thread

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We've got about 6 dewalt impacts we use every day at work and they are work horses. We torque the shite out of the equipment we work on and it's never lacking of power with the 18v. That being said, my brother in law works for a big mechanical contractor in MS and they use Makita and says nothing can compare.

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Is this company in the city or the country?