Do you ever wish for a "simpler" way of life?

Don't believe what you see on TV. I lived that miserable life, and one might add those people did not buy the house on the land, they built it from scratch. Brrrr. People idealize that life and to some extent rightly so, but they see the good and not the bad. It is not quite as easy to sustain oneself on the land as it looks. Be careful what you wish for, my friend.

Of course it looks like a good idea.But when let you do it practicaly,you will know it's hard and insupportable.I was born is a viry little country,and I come to cities for my school life.So I know clearly how hard living in country.

Oh yes! We just bought an old house with lots of room in the country. It is several miles out of town, which is a very small town and under 1,000 in population. I can't wait to finally get to retire and just enjoy life here on my front porch! I plan to put in a garden in the future. My hubby was against this, but he is now coming around. Right now, I am staying busy just trying to get the yard picked up!

Yes I know what you mean. I would love the exact same thing! Right now we have a house with ten acres that we are renting. Currently we have 2 ducks and 14 baby chicks that we are raising. I would love to have feeder pigs and some beef on the hoof as well as dwarf dairy goats. Not sure about a dairy cow but goats might be a good sub. We are getting rabbits soon and I would love a bee hive. Our first garden here last year flopped badly, I am hoping that this year we will be more prepared. I do can things but so far it has just been jams, jellies, fruit and veggies, nothing that requires a pressure canner. I do have a pressure canner just a bit afraid to use it. LOL! I try to bake/cook everything from scratch and I need to take a sewing class. I would really like it if this place was ours but it comes with a big price tag. The owners are not wanting to let us get dairy animals and I am not sure about the pigs. We are doing what we can with what we have. I think that is the best you can do. Are you a member of any homesteading boards? Send me a pm, lets chat a bit!LOL!

I too love that kind of life where you are self sufficient, have a little house, some land on which you can work and grow flowers, vegetables, fruits and lead a clean fresh life.My dream house would be very basic with large open windows with a lot of light and breeze and everything neat, no clutter, bare minimum things.that would be an ideal life. But look at what i got now? an apartment in a city with a lot of noise around, and dust and smoke everywhere,traffic jam all the time!

You sound just like my husband! He is ALWAYS bringing this up! We have an old Holiday Rambler camper and he is always saying we should just pack up our necesseties into the camper and "go live off the land".... I used to feel the same way about being overwhelmed in the city.... We moved to a very small town (but still live within 1 hour of the 2 biggest cities in our state)... life is so much simpler here! There's no traffic, no noise, no temptations to spend money stupidly... but, there's also no grocery store, no entertainment... It's a trade-off, but I definitely prefer this really small town over the large city we used to live in. I guess we're just one step closer to the "little house" lifestyle! :)

I wouldn't mind living the simpler life. I wouldn't go so far as to get rid of things like our electricity or air conditioning, but I like the the thought of not so many worries. I don't think I'd be able to kill animals for my food, but I might be able to do the garden thing. The rest would just have to come along with it.

I surely do! Away from the sky-scrappers and all the vehicles honking in your ears. I too wish I could go and live in a faraway place where I could live a peaceful life!

Yep....I wish for a "simpler" way of life.Maybe "simpler" isn't the right word,'cause I don't wanna live in a smaller town or in a village.That seems too boring to me.The problem is that even in a big city,life is too 'monotone'if you know what I mean.Everybody's so busy with their job(or school,in other cases) that they don't wanna hang out with friends no more,they just go to work and then come home.Everything's too 'robotic'and 'artificial'.We spend too much time in front of the computer or watching TV.We're kinda slaves of this system,we 're manipulated and we don't have too much time to think.There are a lot of taxes and stuff that we have to pay.Anyway,it's a good thing if we have a hobby or something that we like to do(in the best case,a job where you do exactly what u like,but that's hard to find:) )

yup i do feel the need to live a life that is more simple .but all your wishes dont come true so i just try to forget about it and try to carry on with my life .becoz i knw this aint happennig .if u want to live life uyou have to follow the rules set by the socty.u cant make your own rules...........

yup!there are moments when i just want to be in a faraway place surrounded by greens and within the sound of a rippling brook..i've been living in the metrpolis practically all my life..of course there's so much going if you are in the heart of an urban setting..but in my case i sometimes feel lacking...i miss some kind of serenity that a provincial setting can give..and life is more laid back..living is just what you get and see in its most naive way...like smiling at simpls folks..getting fresh veggies from a farm nearby and instead of having an ipod glued to my ears..i enjoy the chirpingg birds and the mooingof cows,etc...yes...sometimes i wish for this kind of life...

I share your views on having a simple way of life but I do not want to do the same me kind of things that you want to do. By the way I enjoy watching 'little house on the Prairie". I cannot bring myself to kill a chicken, as a matter of fact I do not like to go into the meat market. When I do I do not eat the meat for months because it affects me. Neither am I a gardener.However, I have done some amount of adjustment to my lifestyle and I think that I am happy with it. I have been living in the rural area for twenty one years now so I have a piece of land, and I have a partner who is an agriculturalist so he cultivates. My hands suffer if I do gardening so I do not indulge from I was a young but I enjoy the atmosphere for this type of activity. Sometimes this kind of 'dream' is a wish because of our socolization, our career path and the influences around. My advice to you is start with the little that you have. Whereever you live start planting,then make plans to purchase a piece of land. You have some question to ask yourself though. Do you have time to do all this? Will you be able to adjust to this new way of life? You can suprise yourself and live the life as you call it.

Lately I've really been dreaming of this kind of lifestyle. A lot of my stress and worry comes from other people...Crowded grocery stores, expensive clothes, mid-night break ins, etc. It's a scary world. I feel the exact same way. You have a sense of security and accomplishment when you're away from it all. Some of the simpler things in life are the most enjoyable!

that's sound always I dream. last month,I left the big city for a seaside city. it's so beautiful here, it's warm for the whole year. But I have to give up my dream to be a famous fashion designer. But this lifestyle is also what I long for,have the leisure time for reading,tour,playing and also designing. Maybe not for long time, I will have my studio here, meanwhile, enjoy the shining stars in the dark,the sea water,the navigation,the hill,the green trees,the colorful flowers,the smell of the earth,more important,the fresh air,the freedom of the heart.

not like that, but i do wish i lived at the beginning of the 20th century (i am a huge history fanatic and i love that part of history!) even then, times were much simpler but i have to admit that i like some of the conveniences that we enjoy, just not the crazy speed that life travels at.

thats so cool

I was born and grew up in the rural area and had enjoyed every bit of going to the farm, planting rice, vegetables and every kind of plant. I had tried trekking a distance from our field. I had tried feeding the cow with salt on my palms and I felt tickled as the cows licked the salt from my palm. I had tried feeding goats, cows, rabbits, and carabao with grasses that we got from the fields. IN short I was a farmer before. Although I live in the city now because of the nature of my job, I still live a very simple life and from time to time we go home to the province and enjoy the cold weather and the fresh air there. I don't intend to get old in the city. I want to go back to the farm when I retire from work. I never dreamed of living in the city for good. I live here because it is here where I earn a living but after a few years I would be back home where I belong. I belong to the farm. It is where I feel happy and contented.

I have read up on things like homesteading and sustainable living as well. Not sure I want to slaughter chickens. :) However, I think the main thing that interests me is energy efficiency and renewable electricity sources.

I always seem to oscillate back and forth between wanting to live like a hermit in the countryside, and the need to experience culture in a big city. We actually own a mini-farm. It's all fenced in and ready for goats, cows, horses, etc. But we never got around to buying one animal. I got so bored living in the middle of nowhere, when it's a 30 minute drive to any decent sized city. Now we're living in India, maybe the most crowded country in the world, and I'm thinking how great it would be to live at the beach, far away from people, and just relax all day. I never can seem to make up my mind!