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A Farm of My Own:  Do you have a Dream State?  |
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Vintage Redhead
True Blue Farmgirl
233 Posts
Kaylyn
Saint Charles
IL
USA
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 Posted - Apr 16 2007 : 4:51:32 PM
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Dream *STATE*??? At this point, I'd be happy staying in IL and just getting out of the Chicago suburbs! I'm rather tired of it taking 20+ minutes to get across town. Forty minute trips to the doctors' offices -- yuck. I enjoy being close to Chicago...those four times a year that I go in to the City.
Otherwise. If $$$ were no object...my first choice would be Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA. You really can't beat the weather out there. It's dog-friendly, eco-friendly, and top-notch growing conditions for nearly *everything*. Plus a great number of art shops and artists. Great nearby hiking plus the southern edge of the redwood forests. But seeing as $$$ is an object (and I don't have an extra $4mil lying around for a 700 s.f. cottage that is uninsurable!) I'll just have to visit every few years.
Second choice would be anywhere my kids are. When they are grown and choose their way, I'll stay close to them. Not enough to be intrusive to their wives, but close enough to be a half-day drive away. So if they choose opposite sides of the country (or globe) I'll have two very small residences! ~ K
~ Kaylyn ~ (Living in Suburbia with a FARMGIRL Heart!)
My Cause: http://nickspavilion.blogspot.com/
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ShawnMarie
Farmgirl in Training
14 Posts
ShawnMarie
Dauphin
PA
USA
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Posted - Apr 16 2007 : 6:55:00 PM
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My dream state is for sure my home state of PA, to be specific Central PA where I live now. We've discussed moving to WV because we can get so much more for our money, but somehow if I don't have my farm in PA - where I've been all my life - it won't feel like I have my dream. I know the seasons here, the farmer's markets, all the back roads. I just need to do it here no matter what it costs me. Guess that's kind of weird and completely not sensible.
"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." - Oscar Wilde |
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
535 Posts |
Posted - Apr 16 2007 : 9:32:07 PM
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As a canadian girl. I'll have to answer province on this one (though I do love oregon!) I love BC, my adopted home. But it rains too much here, and autumn is just dullsville (lol!). I have always been tempted by the maritimes- maybe Nova Scotia or PEI. The prices are right, and there are places out there with good bones. I think I'd be happy wandering through Anne's land. But I fear that my heart and my history would take me back to Ontario. Just stick me in a little brick farmhouse with an old lilac bush, beautiful rolling hayfields and perhaps a maple sugar bush out back 
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Apr 17 2007 : 09:14:37 AM
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Meggie-
PEI always sounded like such a beautiful place to me. Maybe I am influenced by the Anne of Avonlea books. Have you gone to PEI very much? Is it as beautiful as the books make it sound?
Alee
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birdie
Farmgirl in Training
17 Posts
Amy
Hilliard
OH
USA
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Posted - Apr 17 2007 : 10:48:52 AM
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Washington State! I've lived in Ohio my whole life, but visited Bellingham/Seattle/Tacoma/San Juan Islands with my husband for a wedding a few years ago. I would move there in a heartbeat. I felt so at home. We would consider moving there, but our families are in Ohio and we couldn't imagine being away from them. When I win the lottery I'm buying a piece of land on Lopez island...not that I actually play the lottery, but it is fun to dream about.  |
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - Apr 17 2007 : 2:41:06 PM
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I have to agree with Washington state but I live on the dry side of the state. The SE corner, very rural, less rain but much more sunshine. My second choice would be Montana. There is something very compelling about that Big Sky country.
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Apr 17 2007 : 5:12:20 PM
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This is so interesting to see where everyone wants to live. We have a knack for finding interesting places I think! Isn't it amazing how so many locations that others shun are the places we most desire to be?
Alee |
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mooselovingmamabear
Farmgirl in Training
20 Posts
Gail
MI
USA
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
535 Posts |
Posted - Apr 17 2007 : 6:27:44 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Alee
Meggie-
PEI always sounded like such a beautiful place to me. Maybe I am influenced by the Anne of Avonlea books. Have you gone to PEI very much? Is it as beautiful as the books make it sound?
Alee
Alee, I have never been to PEI. I too, have been influenced by Anne, from houses I've looked at mls.ca, and from friends that have traveled there. I would love to go see it for real one day!
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
4439 Posts |
Posted - Apr 17 2007 : 9:30:18 PM
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Definitely Illinois for me -- it's my home state and where I long to move back to. But it has to be Central IL where there are small farming communities and the houses are cheap! We're going to Montana in May and I can't wait to see it. I've always wanted to visit there.
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_Rebecca_
True Blue Farmgirl
568 Posts
Rebecca
OK
USA
568 Posts |
Posted - Apr 18 2007 : 06:37:46 AM
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I would never want to be anywhere else but Oklahoma. It's got 6 different geography zones. The people are wonderful, not perfect, but wonderful. Every foreigner that I know in my community (and they have lived in other states as well as another country) as well as some out-of-state people say that they want to be here because the people are sincerely nice. If I had my druthers I would have multiple farm/ranch type places around the state. (As long as they are air-conditioned and have a pool LOL!)
There is something about Oklahoma that is in my blood. I grew up on 5 acres in a somewhat rural area. The changing of the seasons, the wacky weather, the beautiful rolling thunderstorms and wind and rain, the awesome sunsets, the variety of birds and plants (we have tons of different trees). I think mountains are gorgeous, California weather is good (but I missed the rain when I was there, or thunderstorms, I should say) I could easily be a Florida beach bum, but I'll always appreciate the total overall combination of Oklahoma geography, climate, flora, fauna and people. It's a cummulative thing.
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - Apr 19 2007 : 11:14:21 AM
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Any place in New England, but especially New Hampshire or Rhode Island. I just love New England and kind of wish I never left the east. But, for now northern Idaho is very nice.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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emma.birdwhistle
True Blue Farmgirl
187 Posts
Elizabeth Ann
Ontario
Canada
187 Posts |
Posted - Apr 20 2007 : 2:50:16 PM
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I too feel drawn to New England - perhaps because my mother's mother's family has roots there going back to the early 1600's, chiefly in Massachusetts. And I have always felt that I could be very at home in Vermont. But, along with Meg, my more recent roots are in Ontario, and it's a lovely place to be. Meg - your brick farmhouse with the lilac trees and the sugarbush sounds just about right! Let me know when you find it, and I'll come and visit you there.
- Elizabeth Ann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
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Kathie
True Blue Farmgirl
2436 Posts
Kathie
Thonotosassa
Florida
USA
2436 Posts |
Posted - Apr 24 2007 : 10:27:57 AM
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Alee,
I'm so glad you asked this..
I have Always thought that i'd want to live in Oregon or Washington.. Just the beauty & the forest's & no.. i've never been.. just always thought thats maybe where I'd wind up.. Plus the eclectic personalitis that seem to be drawn to that region apeal to me too..
( I'm a product of the 60's.. so anything different sounds perfect for me..)
HOWEVER!
2 years ago my job sent me to salt Lake to work for nearly a month.. now the city itse;f wasn't all that thrilling.. but i did like the people that i was there working with.. & one weekend my husband flew in & we drove to Yellowstone.. yes.. what a drive huh!
So we saw more of Utah.. But still not the areas that i knew i had wanted to.. BUT I DID see IDAHO.. & i really liked it.. then we saw Wyoming & Montana.. ( can't remember which of the two we saw 1st ..) but we drove up from Idaho.. then in.. & stayed the nite right there at yellowstone.. yes.. beautiful of course.. & then got up & had a terrific breakfast in the next state .. then down to Idaho again.. all three states were just truly brethtaking i thought!!.. & then back to salt lake.. & i made it back in time to get to work for next morning.. it was pretty funny actually.. when i told everyone what we had done.. they were like duh... you did what??? yes.. we did a speed vacation through 4 states & only stayed the one nite thanks!
Sorry.. wandering..
But yes.. i'd like to live in Idaho..
i really liked it .. alot..
Funny though.. my husband didn't have the same feel for it..
i'm really going to miss him..
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Apr 24 2007 : 10:49:44 AM
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Kathie-
LOL! Oh you made my day!
"Funny though.. my husband didn't have the same feel for it..
i'm really going to miss him..."
You are just _too_ funny!
You should come and visit the Palouse region of Idaho. It is quite a bit different than the southern part of Idaho. We get a bit more rainfall and the weather stays a bit milder so we usually have green grass all through winter. It might not be thriving green grass- but it does stay green! It is truly a beautiful region- maybe your husband would like it more?
I like the Salt Lake area too- Once you get outside the city there is some really beautiful areas and the Alta ski resort area is just gorgeous!
Alee
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Kathie
True Blue Farmgirl
2436 Posts
Kathie
Thonotosassa
Florida
USA
2436 Posts |
Posted - Apr 24 2007 : 12:21:29 PM
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SEE!! i knew it..
I loved it.. the whole time driving through i was like.. "Hey.. this is really pretty huh?".. & he was like.. " yeah.. pretty nice.. "
i mean hello.. where was he looking really??
we live in F l o r i d a.. i've been here over 20 years..
& yes.. the tourists may love it.. but it ain't all that!
give me a mountain or a meadow or a forest anyday..
I mean he's from West by God Virginia.. HE KNOWS BETTER !!
Right??
ok.. i feel better now..
but i really did like it there..
Anytime we are watching something on television & the landscape is just beautiful he says... hmmmm.. i wonder where that is..
i say.. probably Idaho..
of course that when he usually tell me i'm full of crap again..
( can i say that?)
well.. he's not on the float just yet.. but the parades still moving... so there still hope..
Thanks for the affirmation Alee!!
I'm needing it!
Kathie
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Apr 24 2007 : 6:30:20 PM
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Kathie-
Just be the water to his rock- slowly wear him down! ;)
Alee |
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4738 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
4738 Posts |
Posted - Apr 24 2007 : 6:43:22 PM
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I love the Midwest. I have always dreamed of having a farmette in WI. My parents have a second home in Hayward, WI. I've traveled the world & I always compare wherever I'm at to the beauty of WI. My husband however loves New England. I'm fine with that though, I love the east coast too. It's just a lot more expensive to live there though.
Dawn in IL |
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