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RebelDyke · 10-10-2019, 09:14 PM

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Uli · 10-10-2019, 10:28 PM

My wife and I recently got an amazing deal on a gorgeous, mossy, wooded acre in lower norther Michigan with a little, old-but-in-good-shape single wide on it. It's not currently completely off grid (hooked into the electric system, but well, septic, and propane otherwise). It's not a good candidate for solar (see: wooded), but I would love to get a windmill one day. Tomorrow is my last day at work and I will be a full-time homesteader going forward, though my wife will still commute to work. I'm ecstatic, besides that moving makes me a scatter-brained emotional wreck.

RebelDyke · 10-10-2019, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Uli

My wife and I recently got an amazing deal on a gorgeous, mossy, wooded acre in lower norther Michigan with a little, old-but-in-good-shape single wide on it. It's not currently completely off grid (hooked into the electric system, but well, septic, and propane otherwise). It's not a good candidate for solar (see: wooded), but I would love to get a windmill one day. Tomorrow is my last day at work and I will be a full-time homesteader going forward, though my wife will still commute to work. I'm ecstatic, besides that moving makes me a scatter-brained emotional wreck.

That is absolutely awesome!! Congratulations!! Im a bit jealous. You shall have to start a forum on your experience so i can live vicariously thru you!!!

kittygrrl · 10-11-2019, 12:31 AM

In my dream of dreams..the first thing i have to decide is where? Since i prefer rainy weather and fall it will have to be way up North...I lived in Alaska for 5 years but not off grid ...Alaska can be harsh but it's so beautiful there...I lived between Palmer and Wasilla when Palmer town was literally i block long..now it's a big town...I think further up the Fairbanks highway might be perfect..Willow maybe.....A little town but not too small just off the highway..be careful of living on a big hill..My house there just about perfect but it would get real interesting trying to make it up the hill after a snowfall...I learned. This time the topography needs to be flat with a little spring on the land...of course everybody is looking for the same thing there..

cathexis · 10-11-2019, 04:43 AM

Rainy eh, there's always Oregon.
That's one of the major things I think of when looking back to a student exchange program episode in the Willamette Valley. It rained all day, every day! I got so depressed, bailed on it by Second Semester. Packed up and drove back to Chicago. Cared not that it was cold with a foot on the ground, so happy to see the sunshine.
Depression went away immediately, and I re-enrolled at the College from which I had exchanged. Wasn't up for anymore experimental excursions even though studying Volcanology. I did it from the safety of the MW.

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10-10-2019, 10:28 PM	#4
Uli Member How Do You Identify?: fat girl Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: Married! Tournaments Won: 1 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: - Posts: 112 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 173 Thanked 529 Times in 104 Posts Rep Power: 3865493	My wife and I recently got an amazing deal on a gorgeous, mossy, wooded acre in lower norther Michigan with a little, old-but-in-good-shape single wide on it. It's not currently completely off grid (hooked into the electric system, but well, septic, and propane otherwise). It's not a good candidate for solar (see: wooded), but I would love to get a windmill one day. Tomorrow is my last day at work and I will be a full-time homesteader going forward, though my wife will still commute to work. I'm ecstatic, besides that moving makes me a scatter-brained emotional wreck.

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cathexis Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Trotskyist, Anarcho-syndicalist Preferred Pronoun?: They, Them, Their, Sir Bitch Relationship Status: open Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Great White North! Posts: 4,332 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 16,812 Thanked 4,707 Times in 1,604 Posts Rep Power: 21474849	Rainy eh, there's always Oregon. That's one of the major things I think of when looking back to a student exchange program episode in the Willamette Valley. It rained all day, every day! I got so depressed, bailed on it by Second Semester. Packed up and drove back to Chicago. Cared not that it was cold with a foot on the ground, so happy to see the sunshine. Depression went away immediately, and I re-enrolled at the College from which I had exchanged. Wasn't up for anymore experimental excursions even though studying Volcanology. I did it from the safety of the MW.