Living In The Country
Posted by Enforcer on Sep 5, 2008 in Home Buyers Blog | 0 comments
One View: Growing up on a farm is extremly boring and lonely. You wish to become 16 so you can drive somewhere. You turn 16, get an old pickup truck, and find out there is nowhere to go except hangout in the parking lot out side the movie theater. You spend a lot of time working for your dad and reading books.
Another View: Hello, I have lived on a farm my entire life. I have another post on this subreddit with a backstory you can read if you like. My childhood was pretty good. It definitely wasn’t boring for me, because I loved farming, loved the outdoors. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have a place to go and wander around, hunt, fish or something. There was always a little cedar forest that I went to when things weren’t going well. And even though my family life wasn’t the best and most of my family members had problems (alcoholism, domestic abuse, cheating, even schitzophrenia) I look back on my childhood with almost nothing but happiness. I guess I can attribute that to living on a farm. Starfox mentioned being lonely and boring but in my experience, I disagree. I don’t need a big city to be happy. The closest town many miles away had less than 10 people in it. The next biggest town had about 100 with an antique store and a pop machine. Every once in a while, I needed a trip into town with my girlfriend to see a movie o ternet for relaxing. But the farm life was the life for me.