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    8 hours 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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        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