Ok, so my fiance and i have been together for 5 years and we have two young kids. He has always been into "country living". His friend has said that he would like to sell his condo and buy some land in the BC interior (Canada). And its cold there! It snows sometime 8 months a year! I'm lucky on Vancouver island because i think its the tropics of Canada, it is strange for me to see more than a week of light snow.
Anyways, my finace and his friend want to buy some land out in the wildness and be pioneers or whatever. They want to chop down trees and build homes, grow our own garden for food, use solar energy and get our water from a creek. We'd have no running water, no flushing toilet, no corner store, no school for the kids, no hospital, police, etc.. nothing. We'd be completely self sustaining. Now i'm sure we'd be close enough to drive an hour or more to get to civilization, so we wouldn't be entirely isolated.
I hate this idea! I've said i don't want to, its alot of work to go pioneering, raising kids, livestock, growing a crop large enough to live off of and among all the things i've left out, they'll be 10 feet of snow too. I'm peeved that he's so into this plan that he told his friend that if i don't want to do it, that he will go anyhow.
Do you think i should give it a trial run just to be fair? Or should i stick to my guns and say no freaking way!
Anyways, my finace and his friend want to buy some land out in the wildness and be pioneers or whatever. They want to chop down trees and build homes, grow our own garden for food, use solar energy and get our water from a creek. We'd have no running water, no flushing toilet, no corner store, no school for the kids, no hospital, police, etc.. nothing. We'd be completely self sustaining. Now i'm sure we'd be close enough to drive an hour or more to get to civilization, so we wouldn't be entirely isolated.
I hate this idea! I've said i don't want to, its alot of work to go pioneering, raising kids, livestock, growing a crop large enough to live off of and among all the things i've left out, they'll be 10 feet of snow too. I'm peeved that he's so into this plan that he told his friend that if i don't want to do it, that he will go anyhow.
Do you think i should give it a trial run just to be fair? Or should i stick to my guns and say no freaking way!