Reading Ryan’s post about tiny homes and land sharing made me want to move to the ranch. It’s not a feasible option right now, but it’s something I’d consider doing in the future.
There are a number of advantages and disadvantages we have considered…
Advantages
1. Open space to park the tiny house
2. Being near family
3. Zero rent (as long as the tiny house is paid off)
4. Options to build a deck, a green house and space for gardening
5. Food cost would decrease
6. In alignment of long term goals
7. Close access to hiking, camping, biking, running and other outdoor activities
8. Lower cost of living
9. Cooler winters and summers
10. We could get a puppy!
Disadvantages
1. Limited employment opportunities
2. Isolation
3. We would need to buy a car and that would make me very very sad
4. Conservative political environment
5. Slow internet
I’m not sure where we will end up after Logan graduates. We love Sacramento and might stay here, but we’re keeping our options open.
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Wow, Tammy! That view is amazing. Isn’t it interesting that the politically conservative environment would allow you to live out your progressive dreams? If I were you, I would be tempted to pack up the car and move there now! That land is just beautiful.
PS- Who needs politics when you have a self-sustaining home and Mt. Shasta in your backyard?
@chesapeake Great observation on the political stuff and so true. It is tempting to move up North, but I don’t want to buy another car. ): Although it would be nice to have Mt. Shasta in our backyard. The view is breathtaking.
Thanks for leaving a comment! Have a great weekend.
If you have to have a car/truck, make it a diesel and run it on waste vegetable oil, it’s about as eco as you can get without going electric. Cheap too. If I have to buy something to move the tiny house around, it’ll be an old diesel land rover and I’ll do the conversion to WVO.
Man that ranch looks good.
Peace, out.
Hey Tammy!
That place is gorgeous! I always wonder if these ideas I have make me sound like some crazy person, outcasted by society. So far my family still loves me for me, lets see what they do when I put up the chicken coop in our suburbia house
I agree with you on the disadvantages, here is how I plan to overcome most of them.
1. Limited employment opportunities
-I want to start consulting (fly to clients) or work remotely (the later is much harder to arrange, but it would be amazing). This would allow me to fulfill a life long dream of living in costa rica for 6 months. If I can get enough readership, I want to minimally and tastefully put adds on my site, that’s another income source.
2. Isolation
-I struggle with this one as well. In rural communities church is a big social event, but I’m not religious so its hard. Eventually with wanting to work with the community and my dreams of working as a public official in a tiny town, I think I could overcome this. I just need to find a girl who will go for it.
3. We would need to buy a car and that would make me very very sad
-I love my car, I really do, I live in a city where if I tried to walk to the stores I would have to walk on interstates which is illegal. I’m going to be doing a post on my car: SMART CAR
4. Conservative political environment
-Its fun to mess with them, besides I think sometimes we always preach to the choir, friends which often are very similar politically. I run into conservatives around where I live (the bible belt) all the time, great source of entertainment.
5. Slow internet
The guy who has the website “the field lab” got fiber optic ran to his house, which is in the absolute middle of no where. I figure with cost savings of owning a home flat out and no other real expenses, I can foot the bill to run cable a few miles.
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