paiche
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In 2016 I ditched my techno-utopian deadbeat husband and moved in with my grandmom and helped her with her end of life care. She helped me out with a free place to live so I was able to pay off my debts and I helped her with geriatric stuff, food, medicine, etc. She passed away in November and I'm doing the best I can now to beat off the bankers that will ultimately take her home. This is my opportunity to make the leap. I've saved enough to buy some acreage in rural Maine where land is still cheap and I am so eager to get out of this electrified house! The five of us will start looking when the snow recedes enough to get a glimpse of the soil. The only places we can afford are super rural and I worry that I will feel too isolated and that I won't find community. I even emailed some folks that are looking to start a little ecovillage nearby to see if they would welcome us but I don't know it that will work, maybe it will and that would be ideal. I want this move to be super long term because I fall in love with land so intimately that it really hurts to leave and I don't want to move my kids around anymore until they move themselves out into the world.
I'm writing this looking for support in this new transition in life. I'd love to hear your success story of joining community in rural places, overcoming fears in life transitions and others who have settled on raw land and had a successful experience with building a dwelling and putting food by, especially with kids. (My kids are addicted to screens so will be going through a jonesing period while we build so it's goin to be intense at times.)
I'm writing this looking for support in this new transition in life. I'd love to hear your success story of joining community in rural places, overcoming fears in life transitions and others who have settled on raw land and had a successful experience with building a dwelling and putting food by, especially with kids. (My kids are addicted to screens so will be going through a jonesing period while we build so it's goin to be intense at times.)