• inari@piefed.zip
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    1 day ago

    I have no idea why people romanticize the countryside. You wanna work at a farm? Go ahead without me

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      Not saying it’s easy, but I think in some ways, it’s quite a bit more fulfilling with the effort to payoff ratio. Plus, I assume it might work in a pleasant way if one actually has a community where people are willing to help out and do things together

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        It’s a very romantic view. Places like that already exist and are called farming villages. There’s a good reason most people leave them for the cities.

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          24 hours ago

          Yeah, true. It certainly is a romantic view. But I don’t know, the mind yearns for an escape from the rat race in this capitalistic system

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        Thats all my family wants too. I could do without all social media and connectivity. Just let me and my wife have a little farm where we make bread and I make jewelry and we can trade eggs and produce for shoes and gloves. Im really not asking for much.

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        Can you? Because in many places areas adjacent to cities have been turned into car-centric suburbs

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          The wealthiest people I know live on big plots of land just outside of town. They pay less than half the property tax, have more than double the land you would in the city at the same price, and it’s only a couple minute drive into the city for ammenities