This homesteader reveals what it's really like to have your own farm out in the boonies, bashing city-kid expectations and sharing the realities of farm living–both the good and the bad.
Any city person will tell you that there are many moments in our lives when we rethink living in a city. For example, when your subway is delayed, and the crazy guy at the train station starts asking you questions about the book you're reading, you might consider the beauty of solitary farm life. When flu season is in full swing, and every person in your office falls like dominoes–cubicle after cubicle–with the same foul illness, you might start to imagine a rural home. And when you're sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on your way to the grocery store after work, you probably dream of a piping hot tea on the wraparound porch of your ranch-style home as the chickens cluck away the sunset as a final goodbye to your work day. Romantically, we all naively believe that this is what homesteader life is all about (thanks to TikTok), but u/homestead_sensible is here to set the record straight.
Keep scrolling to read the facts from a guy whose family lives happily out on a farm, working sunrise to sunset every day to maintain their simplistic way of life and maybe this will tip the scales for us city folk to drop the convenience of urban living for a couple of acres out in the sticks with a chicken coop, 2 cows, and the love of our lives.
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