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Re: If I move to the country? said by patcat88:said by fartness:4. pollution/possible higher links to cancer due to pollution
cant argue with that I'd argue with that. Unless it's really away from other people, there will be pollution, just the country specific varieties.  People burning wood, trash, leaves, or even fields, plus whatever chemicals they may use in farming areas. And those occasional farms with hundreds of animals. 
said by fartness:8. rude/trashy/ghetto people everywhere I go (stores, etc.)
You will see more of them in the sticks than in urban areas.
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said by fartness:4. pollution/possible higher links to cancer due to pollution That's no guarantee. A family from the city decided to move to rural NJ to get away from the rat race. Bought a farm and decided to raise chickens. Except they had a lot of trouble, chickens dying, laying eggs without shells, etc, etc.
Long story short: This rural farm was loaded with DDT. Turns out DDT was manufactured and dumped at the site during WWII. Living on the property was extremely hazardous. (The good news is the guy didn't have to pay his mortgage, because the bank didn't want to take over the property!)
The family had to leave. It took the state and Feds 30 years to clean up the site. |
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join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
kudos:8 | reply to pollution
said by pollution :That's no guarantee.
I can attest to that, our town has the dubious distinction of being home to three Superfund sites.
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 PacratOld and CrankyPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-10
Cortland, OH | reply to fartness
The bottom line is simply that by moving from the city to the country, you are merely trading one set of problems/concerns for another. You have to decide which carries more weight for you.
I've seen about as many septic tank problem postings as I have city sewer line problems. That also goes for heating costs, water quality, pump problems. TNSTAAFL... There's no such thing as a free lunch. Every environment has its advantages and drawbacks.
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Look Outside | reply to fartness
In response to the people saying crime won't be much different, I still disagree. There won't be the 30 to 50 murders a year, even adjusted per 100,000 people in the sticks like there are where I live.
Police response time is very slow too, especially when they're 5 deep at Tim Hortons because nobody radioed that they're back in service after a call. |
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fartnesscomputersoc dot comPremium
join:2003-03-25
Look Outside | reply to Pacrat
Ah, yes, add that to the list, the city and county (the latter I believe) who run the sewer service where I am, don't give a damn about their antiquated system. My basement floods when it rains moderately heavy since the sewer system gets backed up with water and then comes up the pipe into my basement. I've posted threads on it before.
I take long showers (15 mins or so), is that an issue with septic? What about doing laundry? Seems the tank would fill up quick with used water. |
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join:2000-12-23
O Fallon, MO
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| People in the country tend to not go off "half-cocked" because pretty much everyone is armed in some way, shape, or form. You'll think twice before storming over to the neighbors property to start an argument or stir up trouble. You might find a 12 ga. in your face.
Same goes for thieves. They might end up buried in the back 40 and not a soul would be the wiser.
But I digress, crazy is universal. There are crazy people in the city and crazy people in the country. Country living is not a perfect utopia.
My grandparents own a small dirt farm; about 150 acres. They've been amassing it since 1957. A developer has been trying to buy it for the last 25 years.
Long story short, he bought property adjoining and decided to arbitrarily encroach on my grandparents land. About 50'. Lawyers, court, blah, blah, blah. He lost big time. There was a 150 year old fence line, visible by satellite, that he bulldozed across.
His bigger problem was the land was actually on federal program for native prairie reclamation. Super sized fines.
The moral of the story, you can have bad neighbors in the country too.
Also wanted to add, they do not have a septic tank, cesspool, or seepage tank. They have an open "lagoon". It's a small "pond" with a fence around it downhill from the house. Not sure if these are still legal, but a lot of people have them. They have to be scooped out every 25 years or so.
Surprisingly, it doesn't stink.
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North Reading, MA | reply to fartness
Re: If I move to the country? said by fartness:In response to the people saying crime won't be much different, I still disagree. There won't be the 30 to 50 murders a year, even adjusted per 100,000 people in the sticks like there are where I live.
Police response time is very slow too, especially when they're 5 deep at Tim Hortons because nobody radioed that they're back in service after a call.
The percentage of crimes remains the same compared to the population. You are just as likely to be robbed in the city as the country. In the city they have hundreds of targets but in the country they have dozens of targets. The percentages remain about the same. You can ask most of my family who live in the country about that. They've almost all been robbed by some teens looking for money to buy beer. I've never been robbed in the city.
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With all the comments about moving to the country, I will be safe from city people moving near us. Don't want any to move to my neck of the woods. Very nice cold drinking water from a well that was run by a windmill, since the early 1900's, we do have a county approved septic system when we built our new home w/all the modern accessories 3 yrs ago. Across the driveway is the house my wife called home when she was growing up, her grandmother home, then her mothers and now she owns it. If we need anything from store it is bought after work on our way home.
we very seldom leave the property after we get Home..one town is 13 miles away and the other is 16 miles away. yes, OTA television in every room, research internet when we moved from TW cable, sat was too slow, got Sprint wireless thru Millenicom, until Exede can along and we found out we could get it under the Recovery Act. Love the country smells and everything that goes with it except the wind... fire dangers. We are set for rest of our life, and lovin it.
my avatar is the rustic old barn out our back door. |
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said by fartness:1. crime
2. potential for violent crime
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join:2010-10-23
Washington, DC
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·T-Mobile US
| A tragedy on all sides.....I still don't understand the need to have shot her elderly parents, but meth does strange things to people. |
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Look Outside | reply to aurgathor
I'm sure it's an isolated incident. |
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Washington, DC
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Re: If I move to the country? |
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fartnesscomputersoc dot comPremium
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Look Outside | You list murders from all over the USA, when that many happened in my city since the start of the new year. |
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Reminds me of the big time confusion we had while moving the house. It was too much for us to handle and finally we decided to chuck our stuffs at Jiffy Self Storage, the self storage facility in Toronto. It saved half of our burden and was a great blessing for us! |
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Re: If I move to the country?
You're not in the city any more... |
When city-folk move to the country then sometimes the country-folk have to resort to signs like this. |
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