Comments on: Aspirations of a rural life

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:48:31 +0000

I have been following up on this blog for a while and i find it very impressive. I plan to add it to my rss feeds

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:30:19 +0000

When we bought our land a few years back we didn’t really know what to expect. We basically fell in love with the view and the space.

We then organised a BBQ on Australia Day one year where we met most of our future neighbours and it is just amazing how nice they all are. We have become friends with 3 out of our 5 neighbours almost instantaneously and often end up having morning tea, afternoon tea or dinner with one neighbouring family or other when we stay in the shed for a long weekend.

Also, one of our neighbours is the local school bus driver and he is a really nice guy and from what we have heard he gets along really well with the kids.

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By: Journeyer

Journeyer — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:34:09 +0000

Yes, Lightening. The feeling of safety is something that really appeals to me too.

Kate, I think it’s time for some serious research into what we want and what we can afford. I’m sure we could get the two to meet somewhere!

You’ve both inspired me to think a little more seriously about it. I’ll have a chat with The Thinker about it over the weekend and see what we come up with.

By: kate

kate — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:36:25 +0000

oh do it! do it!

You know there may be a way to move more rural but still have all those things you listed… we moved to ten acres which is lovely and rural but close enough to two smaller towns and also to Melbourne so that we have everything we need. The Baldy boy is still able to commute to a job in the northern suburbs (it is a lot further in kms but takes about the same amount of time as it did when we were living inner city), we are close enough for me to take the girls into the city for various appointments – but they will probably catch a bus to high school (i’ll drive them to primary school) but for us it is a small price to pay.

We made this move on a bit of a whim and I can assure you it is the best thing we have ever done! We have so many dreams and plans and ideas, no money of course to do any of them but there is so much potential in this place that it is inspiring!!

Thanks for the blog links – I can see myself enjoying both of those reads immensely!

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By: Lightening

Lightening — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:30:29 +0000

There are always fors and againsts for any change.

My fears were:

snakes – yep, we have them. So far they haven’t killed me though so it’s all good.

lack of shops – yah for internet shopping!!!

I didn’t like the idea of my children going on a school bus either but they are so well cared for and for the most part they really enjoy it.

What I REALLY love though is the lifestyle for the kids. We have so much more space than the cities offer. And it somehow feels safer and more removed from some of the fears the city has (like violence, crime and so on).

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