My little community (100 houses) used to have a community corral (from the '40s through the '70s). Everyone had a goat or pig or cow. They literally provided the milk for all the community children through the late '70s until the stupid county made them shut it down. I figure we'll go back to that. About a third of the people in the village have chickens already.
We have a large park that is spring fed and planted with lots of fruit trees, plus everyone has fruit trees in their yards. There is endless free fruit here. You go into the post office and every day there's a bowl of free pears or cherries or figs or apples or apricots or whatever is in season. Lots of nut trees too, mostly almonds and pecans. A few walnuts.
We've got a lot of veterans and good old boys with names like Arlen and Vern, so I think we'll be safe. We've got our own water supply and the boys know how to maintain it. We've got a fix-it guy in town but he's in his 70s now so he won't actually do the work himself. He comes over and supervises you and teaches you how to fix whatever it is and you pay him whatever you think is fair.
Right now I live in a former mining community in Nevada. But my wife's extended family is in a copper-mining community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Same kind of place. My wife also lived in St. Benedict, Pennsylvania, a former coal-mining community in Cambria County (southwestern PA). Same kind of place again.
It's ideal if the place is 30 minutes to an hour or so outside a major city and surrounded by farms or a lot of public land. When looking on a map, look for the smallest possible dots for the towns. They should be surrounded by lots of empty space or green. Nearby mountains are good, because they collect water for you.
After a while, you learn to spot these places anywhere.
This is a lovely little primer. I feel like itтАЩs harder to find in densely populated Europe, but then I stopped for a minute and realized even in tiny Holland we do have closeknit communities that beat the Covid propaganda. They managed to convince everyone in the municipality to basically never test. They had the best Covid numbers for ages! And now lowest vax rates. No doubt in my mind they will figure out the next crisis with aplomb. Not easy to integrate though, should we choose to move.
My little community (100 houses) used to have a community corral (from the '40s through the '70s). Everyone had a goat or pig or cow. They literally provided the milk for all the community children through the late '70s until the stupid county made them shut it down. I figure we'll go back to that. About a third of the people in the village have chickens already.
We have a large park that is spring fed and planted with lots of fruit trees, plus everyone has fruit trees in their yards. There is endless free fruit here. You go into the post office and every day there's a bowl of free pears or cherries or figs or apples or apricots or whatever is in season. Lots of nut trees too, mostly almonds and pecans. A few walnuts.
We've got a lot of veterans and good old boys with names like Arlen and Vern, so I think we'll be safe. We've got our own water supply and the boys know how to maintain it. We've got a fix-it guy in town but he's in his 70s now so he won't actually do the work himself. He comes over and supervises you and teaches you how to fix whatever it is and you pay him whatever you think is fair.
Wow I want to know where This walhalla is! Sounds cool.
Right now I live in a former mining community in Nevada. But my wife's extended family is in a copper-mining community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Same kind of place. My wife also lived in St. Benedict, Pennsylvania, a former coal-mining community in Cambria County (southwestern PA). Same kind of place again.
It's ideal if the place is 30 minutes to an hour or so outside a major city and surrounded by farms or a lot of public land. When looking on a map, look for the smallest possible dots for the towns. They should be surrounded by lots of empty space or green. Nearby mountains are good, because they collect water for you.
After a while, you learn to spot these places anywhere.
This is a lovely little primer. I feel like itтАЩs harder to find in densely populated Europe, but then I stopped for a minute and realized even in tiny Holland we do have closeknit communities that beat the Covid propaganda. They managed to convince everyone in the municipality to basically never test. They had the best Covid numbers for ages! And now lowest vax rates. No doubt in my mind they will figure out the next crisis with aplomb. Not easy to integrate though, should we choose to move.