How did you get to your homestead?

[Neb]

Humming. Never thought about it
Does the Uk have distinct regional accents ?
We have 4 or 5 different southern accents in the south along with Ebonics. If that is a language? And it is different regionally also

Ben

 

[Mountain trapper]

I started saving and investing for property and timberland before I was a teenager. Bought my first house at 19. I worked up from a ranch hand to a welder/fabricator, mechanic and eventually retired as a VP for an oil company at 57.
During these years I bought hundreds of acres of ranch, farm, timberland and mining properties. Since the kids had no interest in what we're doing we've sold most of this land. So now only have a few hundred acres left. That's enough for us at this time in our life. Our property in an inholding, meaning our property is completely inside the national forest.

 

[montanabill]

Sold a payed for house, moved to montana and developed a piece of mountain, Had it pretty well set up with garden, water and shelter both above and below ground.
Burned out in a forest fire, now set up for our declining years just outside a town with a a fairly defendable home, garden, water and chickens.
We just keep doing what it takes to be self reliant no matter the other happenings in life.

 

[Wolverina]

I sold my home after losing my husband in 2020! I bought 20 acres with a nice shop building and a 2015 Ford Super Duty with a Jayco fifth wheel from a couple who were downsizing ! They didn't live on the property!

 

[12icemaker]

Worked, saved invested well bought one then two inherited two and bought another, should have bought an adjoining half section when it came up but got beat by waiting for one more drop in the price. 360 acres for 1000 an acre in this area is about 750 below common price and climbing.

Anyone know how to build one of those self kicking boots?

 

[TexasCharm]

We were in a subdivision that was kinda remote when we bought in, then the city grew up around us. A couple of hurricanes hit that year and we saw power outages, people fighting in the gas line, and stupidness all around us after less than 48 hours. We decided we had to get out of there. One house sale, 5-acre purchase, 1 year of apartment living while we built, and here we are, 15 years later!