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Move from suburbs to more rural with land.
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:39 pm
Anyone made the jump? These days I feel like I'd enjoy some space. I'm not even talking a lot of land but maybe 5-10 acres.
It would be a big adjustment though. Would need to invest in a lot more equipment for landscaping/yard work
Any thoughts?
It would be a big adjustment though. Would need to invest in a lot more equipment for landscaping/yard work
Any thoughts?
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Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:47 pm to HailToTheChiz
Bought the land a few weeks ago. Kids are still in school so not looking to build anything until they’re in college.
Posted on 8/28/21 at 7:10 pm to bbvdd
Bought mine in 1993. Hunted in it in the mid 1980's. Moved on it and built home in 2006.
Full archery range. 3d deer, real deer , and i have my own lil foresty mgn't going on.
Pistol range, though i try to just shoot a few rounds. No sense in ruining a good thing.
Over the years i have watched deer from the front window with binocs , and learned what browse they like. Trumpet creeper being a favorite. At least 4 fawns were born here that i saw. We feed everything.
You'd be wise to get away from all that grass cutting, green fine landscape . Let the place reforest and trim out the trash. You won't need all that fancy equipment. Something with a belly mower. A good brush cutter with a saw blade, couple chain saws.
So many folk go crazy cutting everything then plant home depot fruit trees. Best to let nature reforest and you manicure it.
Full archery range. 3d deer, real deer , and i have my own lil foresty mgn't going on.
Pistol range, though i try to just shoot a few rounds. No sense in ruining a good thing.
Over the years i have watched deer from the front window with binocs , and learned what browse they like. Trumpet creeper being a favorite. At least 4 fawns were born here that i saw. We feed everything.
You'd be wise to get away from all that grass cutting, green fine landscape . Let the place reforest and trim out the trash. You won't need all that fancy equipment. Something with a belly mower. A good brush cutter with a saw blade, couple chain saws.
So many folk go crazy cutting everything then plant home depot fruit trees. Best to let nature reforest and you manicure it.
This post was edited on 8/28/21 at 7:16 pm
Posted on 8/28/21 at 7:53 pm to EF Hutton
How big did you buy and how far out was the move from your original home?
Posted on 8/28/21 at 7:53 pm to EF Hutton
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Pistol range, though i try to just shoot a few rounds. No sense in ruining a good thing.
What do you mean by this? Scaring the deer? This is one of the main reasons I want to buy land.
Posted on 8/28/21 at 8:12 pm to HailToTheChiz
1 year ago I moved onto a little under 20 acres in Folsom. Best thing I’ve ever done. Only around 3 acres were cleared, but we had a couple more cleared since we moved in. I can’t even do everything I want to do on it because of a bad back, but I’m still enjoying the heck out of it. It made me forget about a lot of other crap going on in life - I just wake up happy every day now having my own land and chunk of woods.
Posted on 8/28/21 at 8:24 pm to SaintTiger80
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What do you mean by this?
There are other homes thru the woods, 5 to 10 acres away. Many residents shoot, but no one goes stupid. Just some occasional slow shooting. Usually no big high velocity stuff. I shoot a few 44 magnum rounds, and check zero on a muzzleloader. Just no crazy red neck rapid ar hammering. Its just understood -dont ruin a good thing.
Posted on 8/28/21 at 8:34 pm to HailToTheChiz
We moved to 10 acres about 30 minutes from BR and will never live in a city again. We can’t see any neighbors because of trees. The biggest adjustment was buying a 61 inch ZTR for grass cutting, but I enjoy yard work. We grow vegetables, have chickens and fruit trees along with a stocked pond so we can rough it for awhile if the SHTF.
I say go for it. I wish we would have done it years ago.
I say go for it. I wish we would have done it years ago.
Posted on 8/28/21 at 8:56 pm to HailToTheChiz
Left Katy/Sugar land suburbs for 25 acres way west of Houston area. Bought land in 2017 and build in 2020. Absolutely best mental health and quality of life decision we have made. Can walk out and fish our pond, sit on the porch watching deer, sit out and look at the stars/satellites/shooting stars.
Sitting in the hot tub right now listening to coyotes. Love it.
Sitting in the hot tub right now listening to coyotes. Love it.
Posted on 8/28/21 at 11:27 pm to HailToTheChiz
Left northern VA to WVA 4 years ago, to a more country setting. Best decision ever. Next move will be more acreage, less house. Cities are for visiting occasionally.
Posted on 8/29/21 at 3:08 am to LSUMANINVA
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Cities are for visiting occasionally.
Truth. They'll get worse in the future as well.
Posted on 8/29/21 at 5:51 am to HailToTheChiz
I’m in the process of it in reverse. Currently living on 2 acres with the closest country store a mile away. Just bought a 1/2 acre lot in a subdivision about 1/4 mile from a Wal-Mart. Tired of dealing with the yard on my days off and the inconvenience of being far from essentials. To each his own.
Posted on 8/29/21 at 6:48 am to HailToTheChiz
We did several years ago and it is awesome. Have 20+ acres but also surrounded by woods and our nearest neighbors don’t even live on their property.
I used to have a 12 minute drive to work and we lived within walking distance of Lowes, WalMart, PF Changs, McDonalds, etc. Now, I drive 50 minutes to work and the closest McDonalds is 20-25 minutes away. We love it!
The “lockdowns” of 2020 were no big deal for us. We have chickens, bees, freezer full of deer meat and a nice garden.
When we lived in the city I had to drive 45 minutes to an outdoor range or 20 minutes to an indoor range and spend $50-100. Now, I step off my back porch and shoot pistols, shotguns or rifles. Shoot steel, paper or clay pigeons.
Fishing used to be an ordeal of time and money. We used to drive 30 minutes to a public lake, compete with the others there and catch nothing. Now, we have a 2 acre, spring fed pond in the front yard and we keep the fishing poles on the porch. Just grab one and go fishing.
Deer hunting used to mean paying a lease, driving far away, hoping to get an invite from someone, etc. Now I just walk into my woods, choose one of my 7 deer stands and hunt. Recovery is easy with the 4 wheeler or tractor. I can hunt before going into the office and/or after getting home from work.
If you are wanting to get away from things then I recommend getting more acreage and really getting away. 5-10 acres in the suburbs is still “in the suburbs”. You really can’t do much shooting on that size property although it depends on the lay of the land and what is around you. Getting a bigger piece of property with far away neighbors is the best option if you want to be away from it all.
As far as equipment, if you get a 5-10 acre lot in the suburbs then a nice zero turn will do.
If you get 20, 30, 40 or more acres then you’ll need to add a tractor of some sort, chainsaw, polesaw, wood chipper (if you want to make your own mulch and compost), wood splitter (if you are going to use a good amount of wood in the fireplace), welder, wood working tools, etc.
Most of my property is woods and we heat with wood stoves so we do a lot of cutting and splitting firewood. You’ll need to trim branches around the driveway, pond, shooting range, etc. and while some might just burn them, we chip them up for mulch and compost.
Yes, my daily commute is longer and we don’t just run up to Lowes but this has been the best thing we’ve done. It is therapeutic and healthier. Eating what you grow, honey from your own hives and fresh venison are way better than chain restaurants!
Good luck!
I used to have a 12 minute drive to work and we lived within walking distance of Lowes, WalMart, PF Changs, McDonalds, etc. Now, I drive 50 minutes to work and the closest McDonalds is 20-25 minutes away. We love it!
The “lockdowns” of 2020 were no big deal for us. We have chickens, bees, freezer full of deer meat and a nice garden.
When we lived in the city I had to drive 45 minutes to an outdoor range or 20 minutes to an indoor range and spend $50-100. Now, I step off my back porch and shoot pistols, shotguns or rifles. Shoot steel, paper or clay pigeons.
Fishing used to be an ordeal of time and money. We used to drive 30 minutes to a public lake, compete with the others there and catch nothing. Now, we have a 2 acre, spring fed pond in the front yard and we keep the fishing poles on the porch. Just grab one and go fishing.
Deer hunting used to mean paying a lease, driving far away, hoping to get an invite from someone, etc. Now I just walk into my woods, choose one of my 7 deer stands and hunt. Recovery is easy with the 4 wheeler or tractor. I can hunt before going into the office and/or after getting home from work.
If you are wanting to get away from things then I recommend getting more acreage and really getting away. 5-10 acres in the suburbs is still “in the suburbs”. You really can’t do much shooting on that size property although it depends on the lay of the land and what is around you. Getting a bigger piece of property with far away neighbors is the best option if you want to be away from it all.
As far as equipment, if you get a 5-10 acre lot in the suburbs then a nice zero turn will do.
If you get 20, 30, 40 or more acres then you’ll need to add a tractor of some sort, chainsaw, polesaw, wood chipper (if you want to make your own mulch and compost), wood splitter (if you are going to use a good amount of wood in the fireplace), welder, wood working tools, etc.
Most of my property is woods and we heat with wood stoves so we do a lot of cutting and splitting firewood. You’ll need to trim branches around the driveway, pond, shooting range, etc. and while some might just burn them, we chip them up for mulch and compost.
Yes, my daily commute is longer and we don’t just run up to Lowes but this has been the best thing we’ve done. It is therapeutic and healthier. Eating what you grow, honey from your own hives and fresh venison are way better than chain restaurants!
Good luck!
Posted on 8/29/21 at 6:54 am to Koolazzkat
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To each his own.
I'll never live in a heavily populated area again. I barely can muster the energy to visit.
Posted on 8/29/21 at 7:47 am to Koolazzkat
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Tired of dealing with the yard on my days off
Thats why i say let it reforest. No need to live on a big green pasture. Let the good oaks, magnolias, etc regenerate, and as they get tall, hand cut the trash stuff out. Keep you a few walking trails cut thru your woods one mower wide ( with the chute wired up ).
No need for all that work, and big expensive mowers. Alot of folk come in and have an instinct to cut cut cut. Beautiful oaks that took 30 years to get their size. Then comes the home depot fruit trees.
Just saying, maybe consider natural. Trees die, fact. But new trees seed up to replace them. When Joe Smith comes with that big mower, he may not realize, he is inturrupting nature. All those seedlings get whacked. That fine lil Southern Red Oak just got mushed by the big zero turn mower.
Just something to think about.
Posted on 8/29/21 at 8:06 am to HailToTheChiz
I built on 10 acres back in 2005. Prior to that, we were forced to live in a rental house in a subdivision until construction was finished. I hated that so much!!! I will avoid living in another subdivision for the rest of my life.
The property I bought was 100% wooded. I cleared about 2 acres for the homesite, and left the rest natural. Just enough grass that battery powered tools do me just fine, although I do have several gas operated ones. I rarely touch them. Fenced in about 6 acres and put up a driveway gate. Dogs have a lot of room the run and explore the woods, and I don't have to watch them or leash them. Deer are frequently seen all around. I now have 7 chickens, and a small garden. I can pee just about anywhere on my property without fear of an indecent exposure charge. I can choose to swim or hot tub naked if the mode hits me too.
As far as yard equipment, I can't recommend this enough for this situation: Get a small tractor! Absolutely the best purchase I have ever made. I went with a Kubota BX series with a front-end loader and a belly mower. Hitch lets me move my boat and trailer around with ease. I recently bought a new one with a drive-over deck and I looking to buy a grapple for it. You cannot imagine just how handy one is for small acreages. I haven't touched a wheel barrow in years. Got a set of small disks to turn up the ground for my garden.
My ex moved into a cookie-cutter subdivision just after our divorce. Probably 200+ houses in this subdivision. Everytime I go there to pick up my daughter, I just cannot imagine living somewhere that I could take just a few steps out my front door and be at my neighbors front door.
The absolute best thing about owning land is, they aren't making anymore of it!
The property I bought was 100% wooded. I cleared about 2 acres for the homesite, and left the rest natural. Just enough grass that battery powered tools do me just fine, although I do have several gas operated ones. I rarely touch them. Fenced in about 6 acres and put up a driveway gate. Dogs have a lot of room the run and explore the woods, and I don't have to watch them or leash them. Deer are frequently seen all around. I now have 7 chickens, and a small garden. I can pee just about anywhere on my property without fear of an indecent exposure charge. I can choose to swim or hot tub naked if the mode hits me too.
As far as yard equipment, I can't recommend this enough for this situation: Get a small tractor! Absolutely the best purchase I have ever made. I went with a Kubota BX series with a front-end loader and a belly mower. Hitch lets me move my boat and trailer around with ease. I recently bought a new one with a drive-over deck and I looking to buy a grapple for it. You cannot imagine just how handy one is for small acreages. I haven't touched a wheel barrow in years. Got a set of small disks to turn up the ground for my garden.
My ex moved into a cookie-cutter subdivision just after our divorce. Probably 200+ houses in this subdivision. Everytime I go there to pick up my daughter, I just cannot imagine living somewhere that I could take just a few steps out my front door and be at my neighbors front door.
The absolute best thing about owning land is, they aren't making anymore of it!
Posted on 8/29/21 at 8:15 am to SpookeyTiger
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we don’t just run up to Lowes
hee hee, thats y i collect hardware, angle iron, have tools, etc. Chances are i have that metric bolt for the tractor .
Posted on 8/29/21 at 8:27 am to HailToTheChiz
We loved last year, but wife wouldn't let me do 5 acres, so we did 2 in a HOA. She hates it now, and we are looking for 5 or more and plan to sell/move in 2 years.
Posted on 8/29/21 at 8:29 am to HailToTheChiz
Rural living is great until you get in your mid 60s and start spending a lot of your driving to the nearest city for Drs appointments every week.
Posted on 8/29/21 at 9:15 am to HailToTheChiz
My wife inherited the family farm a few years ago. The house was remodeled in 1921. Originally built in 1809. It has good bones! It has been empty since 1992 and was a working dairy farm till then. We are currently re-wireing, plumbing, septic, insulation and HVAC. Planning on retiring there when my youngest graduates high school. One thing I know I will not ever wake up with nothing to do!
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