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Boley

10-24-2007 22:21:01

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For the life of me I can't think of a single one.We've lived in a few city's,and I've worked in many,for the past 27 years my family has been located on our humble rural place while I worked out of town a good bit.Just thinking about how much I enjoy living here and wouldn't choose to live anywhere else I've been to or seen over right here.Sure many of you feel as fortunate as I do.Please tell of your good luck at being a country hick,or argue the advantages of being more "cosmopolitan".Thanks,Boley

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dave guest

10-29-2007 20:39:43

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

Only regret about movin out of city is I didn't move fur enough. The city is follerin me.

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Eric SEI

10-25-2007 19:37:48

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

The biggest disadvantage I can think of is the inconvenience and cost of buying things. Local stores are more expensive with a poorer selection. To go where prices are good and you have a good selection will cost you half a day and some gas.

I can live with that. My grandparents had the Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs, I've got mail order on the internet. Life is good.

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b.t.s.

10-25-2007 15:57:51

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

I've experienced both sides to a degree. My parents grew up on farms in mo. but moved to the city after WW II. Uncles had farms and I would occasinally visit/hunt/work on them both. I grew up in St.Louis went to Virginia in a small town near Richmond and bought raw land which I turned in to a small "farm" of sorts. I go to town occasionally, have had my kids in the finest schools in the east but I love the rural area much more than the urban life. You need different skills but I think overall it is more challenging and demanding to succeed on a small farm.Fortunately I've found the secret to life . It's living on a farm, working in a small town near a moderately large city.

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Chris Jones

10-26-2007 13:04:45

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to b.t.s., 10-25-2007 15:57:51

What small town near Richmond, VA? I"m from that area originally.

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730virgil

10-25-2007 17:09:23

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to b.t.s., 10-25-2007 15:57:51

it might take longer before snow plow gets road open in winter.

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Bret4207

10-25-2007 14:03:36

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

I've never lived in a city- but Ducknoses post should be deleted immediately! Language like that is not needed here, disguised or not. This has always been a family website.

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JML755

10-25-2007 12:44:01

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

Ducknose Bob,

Wow, is all I can say. Tell us how you REALLY feel. I would probably be considered one of "them city-slickers", but hear my side. I bought my property (55A) 3 yrs ago and have gotten nothing but grief from the neighbors. I introduced myself to those that came around with a smile and a handshake, explained that I wanted to retire and raise horses, plant some hay, etc. The property is vacant, zoned agriculture. They have been ornery, rude, crude, downright nasty. All in the name of "we were here first". They each have 3-7 acres fronting my land and considered the property their personal recreation area prior to my purchase, hunting, fishing, running their ATVs all over it. Granted, they are not "REAL farmers", but the attitude is the same as yours: "NOT WELCOME HERE". They claim to be "country folk", saying "we do things differently up HERE", but the bottom line is they are not very good neighbors, in my opinion.

I would tell you the same thing I told them: If you wanted to keep me (or any other "city-slicker") from moving here, you should have bought the property yourself. That being said, I wouldn't stereotype all "country-folk" to be like my neighbors, just as you shouldn't stereiotype all new neighbors as "city slickers". Give them a chance and remember, the reason more property is available is because "real farmers" are selling off portions in small chunks. So, if you want to blame anyone, blame the farmers for splitting up their spreads. Actually, that might be you someday when you want to retire and cash out your investment. JMHO

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Mike (WA)

10-25-2007 12:21:06

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

Hate to buck the trend, but my two nearest neighbors are a construction superintendent and his wife, and a retired Colonel and wife. Couldn't ask for better neighbors- we help each other at the drop of a hat, do a barbecue once in awhile, and all three of us make the adjustments and concessions necessary to get along. Latest decision is to get our fields spread with chicken manure at the same time next spring, so we only have to endure the smell once. And can present a "united front" to some of the other neighbors, who will surely complain.

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Dandy Don

10-25-2007 11:28:14

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

You guys hadn't seen country til you been her in Hay Springs, Nebraska.

Now this is country.
DD

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Ted in NE

10-25-2007 19:43:56

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Dandy Don, 10-25-2007 11:28:14

Amen Dandy Don, your neighbor to the southwest north of Hemingford NE

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in-too-deep

10-25-2007 10:25:43

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

Oh boy, I've been wanting to vent about this since I moved. Farmers stirring up dust all the time and running tractors late at night keeping me awake. They're always driving down the road so slow too. I have a strict routine at the gym and I need to get there on time. I wish those dummies would get off the road with their tractors. Oh, and stink, don't even get me started on the smells!! Spreading manure should be outlawed! Don't the farmers know that you can buy meat at the grocery store so they don't need to raise it themselves? I don't know which is worse, smelling the animals on farms in the summer, or getting snowed in and not being plowed out in the winter. Those trucks should go by my house first. I make the most money around here! I'm outta here. I gotta go wash all the dust off my Miata. Stupid back country roads aren't even paved. End rant.

Whew, hold on boys, take a deep breath. Only kidding. I'm a tried and true country boy who hates the city slickers as much as you. My friends want me to move into a townhouse with them in a nearby city, I said "not a chance."

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rrlund

10-25-2007 07:37:04

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

What do I have to say to discourage anybody else from doing it? I hope I'm not turning in to one of those ornery old coots. I used to welcome newcomers to the neighbornhood,but there have just been too many bad apples spoiling the barrel. Disadvantage? We're getting to be more and more clanish,for a reason.Tree hugging animal rights nut job city slickers aren't welcome anymore. Pains in the a$$ need a hard lesson in minding their own business. I've had it with the people that come out to visit the slickers who've moved here too. They drive like maniacs and seem to think we're an attraction in a zoo for them to point and laugh at and talk to with a condacending attitude. Jacka$$es think we're all a bunch of uneducated hicks. They couldn't take care of themselves for 5 minutes and we're the stupid ones? GO HOME. There's no social life for you here and you're going to be VERY lonely. Sorry about the rant,but there are more than enough of these pains in the neck here already. So,the disadvantage of living in the country,too many city slicker yuppies making life H*LL.

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Ducknose Bob

10-25-2007 11:59:25

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to rrlund, 10-25-2007 07:37:04

I couldn't agree with you more, but with one exception, why WOULD you have ever welcomed them in the first place?
They cannot accept the fact that we were here first, we do not want nor care that they feel compelled to 'enlighten' the ignorant hicks into accepting their way of thinking, or their way of life.
Nor do we want the useless sockcuckers to start changing every little thing to suit them, and lastly, They cannot fathom that a REAL farmer has more invested in one tractor, or one combine, than the citidot has paid for his house and vehicle(s) combined.
Having said that, tell them to FKUC off and go back to where you came from, you will feel better for having said it.

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Dave H (MI)

10-25-2007 11:34:41

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to rrlund, 10-25-2007 07:37:04

If my memory serves me, you live in the SW part of the state...beautiful country but you have nothing to worry about around here anymore. NOBODY is "developing" any farmland unless they want to go broke in a hurry. We have another four years of our lady guv and even with the economic disaster we are facing, the folks in the downtown areas will band together and vote her back. If you really think on it, the death of "development" may be the only good part of her reign of terror.

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IH2444

10-25-2007 10:16:20

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to rrlund, 10-25-2007 07:37:04

Yeah the country life is horrible. All you city folks stay where you are...

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johnand cindy

10-25-2007 09:07:08

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to rrlund, 10-25-2007 07:37:04

rrlund, Preach it! I love to drive my old Ferguson on the road slowly just to upset the upscale types with the lexus, bmw,even a rolls I get that classic finger wave and a lot of mouth.I praise GOD that the old girl is a little loud so they cant hurt my feelings LOL. Funny that they want me to plow their driveway when it snows Cindy says I need to be a good Christian I tell her I am I wont plow there driveway shut let them pay some guy with a snow rig. Sorry for the rant thanks guys,,John

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cj3b_jeep

10-25-2007 07:08:40

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

The only thing I can see being a disadvantage so-far is that we can't really have newspaper delivery. I love to read the sunday paper, but the mailbox is 800 feet from the house. Last thing I want to do on a snowy sunday morning is leave the fireplace ad walk 1600 feet for a newspaper!

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low budget

10-25-2007 06:29:48

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

Guy next door complained the tree frogs made too much noise at night. Yep you guessed it, he moved here from a more populated area.

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Pat H.

10-25-2007 06:25:45

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

I love living in the country. I live in one of the most beautiful counties in Indiana with a collection of prairie, rock canyons, beautiful streams including the Wabash and Big Pine creeks, rolling hills, waterfalls and potholes which are deep and shallow depressions created by natural water erosion of stone creek beds. We have beautiful trees which provide a gorgeous palette of colors in the fall and we have changing seasons instead of a boring single season. I love seeing deer coming out of woods at dusk, seeing a young 8 point buck and have even seen a doe with triplets! We also have a lot of wild turkeys which come right up to the house and still have pheasants and quail. We have no stoplights in our county and little crime. Our schools are excellent and staffed with fine teachers who provide not only one-to-one attention but also are good role models for kids. There are few minorities in this county but the ones who are here are legal and are contributing citizens. We are close enough to bigger towns like Lafayette, IN and Danville, IL if we need things like from Tractor Supply, Big R, Walmart, etc. Yes, we do have isolated problems from time to time, mostly from traffic accidents on nearby Route Indiana Rte. 63 and U.S. 41 and some drug problems, but by and large it's a good county to raise kids in and to live in. I may be a redneck or hick but I do enjoy the privacy of my own place where I can have a beer if I want to, pee behind a tree or the barn, and utter an occasional cuss word if sometimes breaks and I don't have a nosy neighbor looking over the fence to see what I'm doing. In fact our neighbors look out for each other, plowing out snow for each other, taking turns mowing roadsides and just in general being friends. I wouldn't trade our county and our home for anything and as I was born in this county and will probably die in it, I'll continue to live the years I have left and simply enjoy being a "country boy" -- and will survive. Pat

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in-too-deep

10-25-2007 10:28:28

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Pat H., 10-25-2007 06:25:45

Pat, very well written. Say, are there any old abandoned farmhouses out there a guy like me could buy? Sounds like paradise : )

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Pat H.

10-25-2007 21:56:23

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to in-too-deep, 10-25-2007 10:28:28

Sorry for not replying to you sooner "in-too-deep" but I just checked YT before I went to bed after a long day putting some new wiring in in my shop and mowing. To answer your question, as a matter of fact, there ARE places here for sale. I'm not sure there are any abandoned farmhouses around here but there are several plots being sold along the lines of 380, 280, and 140 acres in Warren County and a 1500 acre farm in the county to the south of us. As for single houses, there are some of them on the market too. Come on out to Western Indiana. I think you'll be glad you did. There's always room for one more at the coffee shop and the guys there won't get their ears up like a herd of Angus when a new fellow walks in. Where do you live now? Take care and good luck.

Pat

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Dave from MN

10-25-2007 06:05:01

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

Only disadvantage of of country living that I can think of is, living in the country and being invaded by developers that decide they want to serve the yuppies that want to live out in the country, soon my "country" is no longer country but a community of overindulged very high income that have 1.2 kids, 3 horses to look at, drive corvettes and hummers, a pet spa in the garage, and enough infuence to convince county zoning that "country living" should not have "farming" in it"s definition. That is the only disadvantage I seem to be able to think of. 1/2 mile drive in MN winter-no issue, no cable-thank God, no food delivery service-we have 2 freezers and a wood stove. Living in the country 1/2 mile off the road in the center of your property is priceless.

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Sunspot

10-25-2007 05:43:49

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

I like living out in the sticks. Timber land all around my property. Nice and quite. Lots of hunting in the area so if I hear a gunshot I think �wonder if he got him� rather then �call the cops�.
A few things on the down side are 12 miles to town, no cable TV, no high speed computer, no cell phone service and no pizza delivery.

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Bill46

10-25-2007 05:11:06

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

Guess the only thing I can think of (and did not use to) is it's so darn far to the doctor or a hospital. Never thought much about it when young, but now I am ready to retire and I give it "alot" of thought.

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IaGary

10-25-2007 04:52:09

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

I live on the same farm I was born on.

We are 6 miles from the closest town.

When I was a kid I could look around and see 4 farm building sites from our place. (1965)

Now I can look from my front porch and see 13 houses. 3 of us still farm.

The traffic is heavy from all the urbanites that want to live in the country. Makes it hard to move the machinery around.

Everyone wants 40 acres and move to the country.

Where will it all end?

Gary

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Dave 2N

10-25-2007 04:12:58

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

Bingo!!! I'm with you. I love the country and love where we live. We have our own 40 acres and are surrounded on two sides by two large farms, on another side by the road and on the east side by an old cemetery. (Those folks don't bother us at all!) Wouldn't live anywhere else. Two weeks in a city would be the end of me.

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Dave 2N

10-25-2007 04:12:52

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John M

10-25-2007 03:12:45

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

When the owner(s) of the property around you die, and the kids sell it off to some developer, who fills the land up with mobile homes! You dont live in the country anymore, child molestors are moving in, punk kids are riding their motorcycles day and night about 100mph up to the church where you Dad is buried, Mexicans move in, and raise he!! all night, yea, no offence buddy, but I hope youre dead and gone before that happens, because trust me, itll happen! Use to, if we saw more than one car go up the road in the same direction, it was funeral, now, I have to fight to get out of my driveway in the morning.

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John M

10-25-2007 03:12:42

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benny2

10-24-2007 22:35:11

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What I really hate is Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

What I really hate is not being able to get fresh deli broiled chicken when I want too! ;(( Sometimes in the middle of the nite!

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higgins

10-25-2007 13:54:20

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Re: What I really hate is Re: Disadvantages to country livi in reply to benny2, 10-24-2007 22:35:11

Go to the big (relative) city on yard sale day and pick up one of those rotisserie (George Forman?) ovens. Easy, takes about an hour and a half and tastes great.
Be careful at yard sales though sometimes you get on a run of getting too much stuff.

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kyplowboy

10-24-2007 22:34:03

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Boley, 10-24-2007 22:21:01

The only disadvantage I have ever seen, was the one my ex-wife pointed out. Live'n in the sticks you have to have more management about you. I live closer to town than many on here. It is 15 miles to the closest big store or fast food joint. Live'n out of sight you have to plan your meals and get every thing you are going to need for 2 weeks while you are at Wal-Mart. Of course by my way of thinking this is more than off set by have'n food in some form or another just out your back door all year round. I am still eating out of the garden now, and turnips have not even started come'n in yet. Like I said, I do not see it as a set back live'n out in the sticks but many do. I feel very lucky to live where I do. I have only one neighbor, my grand mother lives behind me and no one lives behind her, the road just stops. Where I live ain't much but I would not be any where else.

Dave

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banjo

10-24-2007 23:36:51

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to kyplowboy, 10-24-2007 22:34:03

Only disadvantage i can think of is you have to plan your trips. waste a lot of fuel making multiple trips to town. Might as well write the day off if you have to go to a larger town 50 miles away.

Also the police is 30 miles away for our county.Have to depend on volunteer fire dept(which usually respond pretty quick on fires).

But i'd rather be in the country than a town any day

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richardinnz

10-25-2007 00:32:51

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Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to banjo, 10-24-2007 23:36:51

Sombody tell me what a town is?

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benny2

10-25-2007 00:45:09

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Well it is Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to richardinnz, 10-25-2007 00:32:51

A town Less than 5000 Population
A City More than 5001 Population
A Metropolis More than 500,000 Population
A Mega Metropolis well that's LA CA
A Podunk less than 500 population counting Cats and Dogs
A Pitchfork is a Post Office and maybe a part time gas station! ;))

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iowa_tire_guy

10-25-2007 05:40:07

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Re: Well it is Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to benny2, 10-25-2007 00:45:09

What do you call it when it is a church and a dozen houses?

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benny2

10-25-2007 17:30:20

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That would be a Re: Well it is Re: Disadvantages to country in reply to iowa_tire_guy, 10-25-2007 05:40:07

That would be a Hay Seed that is just 2 notches above a pitch fork and one notch below a Podunk! ;))

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730virgil

10-25-2007 17:06:40

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Re: Well it is Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to iowa_tire_guy, 10-25-2007 05:40:07

add 2 churchs and a tarven and call it Mc Connell Il 61050

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Dave Lebanon,NY

10-25-2007 07:18:48

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Re: Well it is Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to iowa_tire_guy, 10-25-2007 05:40:07

You call it Lebanon, NY you won't find it on maps
but it is just west of Colgate College in Hamilton The disadvantage is its uphill any way you use to get out of here.

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Dave from MN

10-25-2007 06:09:34

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Re: Well it is Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to iowa_tire_guy, 10-25-2007 05:40:07

add a bar/cafe and you have Duelm, MN. Best little "through it before ya seen it" hickville in MN, before the 2 developments and the 4/40 rezoning

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Paul from MN

10-25-2007 07:34:50

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Re: Well it is Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Dave from MN, 10-25-2007 06:09:34

Dave, my family has been farming just outside Duelm for 100 years. Every 5 years we have a large extended family reunion at St. Lawrence's.

My wife and I had been married about 10 years and she had been to at least two of these reunions and countless visits to Jack & Jim's. One day she was talking with my Dad and said "someday I'd like to see the town where you grew up" He told her that she already had. She said, "I've only been to the church and the bar, but have never seen the town". Now this was probably 1992 well before that wonderful little town started to become a bedroom community for St. Cloud and Becker.

PS: I liked the old Jack & Jim's a heck of a lot better than the new and improved version. For that matter I liked the old St. Lawrence better too. I suppose that says something about me....

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randallinMo

10-26-2007 08:21:28

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Re: Well it is Re: Disadvantages to country living in reply to Paul from MN, 10-25-2007 07:34:50

I live out in the sticks too..... ..and absolutely love it. 'Lived in a big city once..... ....NEVER again. I"ve been on my farm now for 22 years. There are WAY TOO MANY advantages to list. Only disadvantage I encounter is the dust off the dirt road in the summer. Sure does irritate me when I'm out mowing hay in the summer and somebody drives by and fogs me. Hard to keep the house clean too. The reverse is that whenever somebody drives by in the winter I think "Thank God, I'm not the only one out here"!

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