Hello everyone,
This is my blend of the "Opinions on areas to live" thread and the upcoming "My Utopia" thread by Readytobe.
The following is intended to explain what I am looking for with hopes that someone may tell me where to look and offer helpful advice. Let's all agree in advance to keep this and all other threads friendly.
Utopia: An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
My Utopia:
I dream of a place where I can live a wholesome life with my wife and son. A place where we can sow and reap and live our lives in harmony with the land. We like to always leave a place better than we found it and if everyone would live by that rule, the whole world would be utopia.
We would choose to be mostly self sufficient, but always social and willing to participate in the local economy. I could even imagine serving the public in some unforeseen ways.
I'm looking for a medium sized house on piece of land with many acres for vegetable farming, free range chickens, pigs, goats, cows and a horse or two. A small pond with a brook would be wonderful. I'd be grateful if it had a good sized section of trees for sustainable harvesting of firewood.
I'll need Internet access of at least 2.5 Mbps to interact with the outside world for news and possibly income. I'm learning Spanish quickly and hope to be fluent someday reasonably soon.
Access to a city of around 25,000 people would be beneficial as my son will need some formal schooling, although I would really like to homeschool him. In a large city you are basically anonymous in plain sight - you can life there without anybody really knowing you. That is the problem. Accountability breads trustworthiness. This new era is going to be about living by your morals.
The idea of sharing a property with strangers will only work if everyone shares the exact same goals and those goals never change. Society is changing more rapidly now then ever. Goals change. People change, so I hesitate to join a group to which I would be dependent. A loose knit group of similar people with similar goals would be key and that's what I'm looking for.
If you have some wisdom and ideas of where and how we might fit in, please, please share them with us. Rivera seems like a good place to look, but we need more suggestions and information. All we want is peace.
Thank you sincerely,
W.
This is my blend of the "Opinions on areas to live" thread and the upcoming "My Utopia" thread by Readytobe.
The following is intended to explain what I am looking for with hopes that someone may tell me where to look and offer helpful advice. Let's all agree in advance to keep this and all other threads friendly.
Utopia: An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
My Utopia:
I dream of a place where I can live a wholesome life with my wife and son. A place where we can sow and reap and live our lives in harmony with the land. We like to always leave a place better than we found it and if everyone would live by that rule, the whole world would be utopia.
We would choose to be mostly self sufficient, but always social and willing to participate in the local economy. I could even imagine serving the public in some unforeseen ways.
I'm looking for a medium sized house on piece of land with many acres for vegetable farming, free range chickens, pigs, goats, cows and a horse or two. A small pond with a brook would be wonderful. I'd be grateful if it had a good sized section of trees for sustainable harvesting of firewood.
I'll need Internet access of at least 2.5 Mbps to interact with the outside world for news and possibly income. I'm learning Spanish quickly and hope to be fluent someday reasonably soon.
Access to a city of around 25,000 people would be beneficial as my son will need some formal schooling, although I would really like to homeschool him. In a large city you are basically anonymous in plain sight - you can life there without anybody really knowing you. That is the problem. Accountability breads trustworthiness. This new era is going to be about living by your morals.
The idea of sharing a property with strangers will only work if everyone shares the exact same goals and those goals never change. Society is changing more rapidly now then ever. Goals change. People change, so I hesitate to join a group to which I would be dependent. A loose knit group of similar people with similar goals would be key and that's what I'm looking for.
If you have some wisdom and ideas of where and how we might fit in, please, please share them with us. Rivera seems like a good place to look, but we need more suggestions and information. All we want is peace.
Thank you sincerely,
W.
