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pnichols
Jul 27, 2017Explorer II
Those responses from AJBert were indeed rude on the surface, as stated.
However reading between the lines, what he most likely was really inferring is that years ago he had figured out that he wanted to live in a rural environment for various reasons - one of them being so he'd have room to "spread out" with minimum hassles from his more distant, if any, neighbors. "Spread out' includes such things as (maybe unforseen at the time of establishment of his rural residence) being fortunate enough to be able to keep an RV right at his residence.
I wound up the same way - wanting to live "out in the country" early-on in life, for a whole variety of reasons. So I bought a piece of raw land as soon as possible and developed it myself while living in an old trailer on that land, when at the same time holding down a full-time career in a populated area 25 miles away. All of that was both a curse and a blessing: I can store our RV in the back yard ... but I have all the work that goes along with taking care of acreage myself because I can't afford to hire it all done - including taking care of it in my retirement years when I have less of a body and at times even less money.
It's nice having the RV out back, though, along with a dump station for it. ;)
However reading between the lines, what he most likely was really inferring is that years ago he had figured out that he wanted to live in a rural environment for various reasons - one of them being so he'd have room to "spread out" with minimum hassles from his more distant, if any, neighbors. "Spread out' includes such things as (maybe unforseen at the time of establishment of his rural residence) being fortunate enough to be able to keep an RV right at his residence.
I wound up the same way - wanting to live "out in the country" early-on in life, for a whole variety of reasons. So I bought a piece of raw land as soon as possible and developed it myself while living in an old trailer on that land, when at the same time holding down a full-time career in a populated area 25 miles away. All of that was both a curse and a blessing: I can store our RV in the back yard ... but I have all the work that goes along with taking care of acreage myself because I can't afford to hire it all done - including taking care of it in my retirement years when I have less of a body and at times even less money.
It's nice having the RV out back, though, along with a dump station for it. ;)
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