Rural property is popular. But think ahead and do not open yourself; Culture shock; Unnecessary Evil when you move to the countryside. Anyone can prevent some of the cultural upheavals that can occur when they move to a rural area!
Before you move into rural property - meet people there and try to find out the culture of the region - the existing culture - NOT the one you are accredited to, but not the one you want to do.
Our company recently sold one of the most advanced properties of Homestead that I have ever seen at a very low price! What for? Because the new owner made himself so undesirable in his new environment and so terribly alienated the neighbors that they historically made him unbearably uncomfortable. So he no longer wanted to live there.
He is an impolite ecologist and decided to move from the city to a rural community, where many of the families return 400 years on the same land. He was an urban boy with a degree in forestry, biology and ecology and did not have wit. His applied religion was based on watching Walt Disney films; where the trees speak, and the man is angry, and the animals and plants are beautiful.
He did not want his new neighbors to hunt deer in order to enslave the fields early, use agricultural chemicals or artificial fertilizers on crops. He did not like planes that sprayed murderous mistakes early in the morning. He did not like the smell of chicken and pig manure in the fields. He spoke loudly and aggressively. He made the enemies of almost all his neighbors. He is gone now, and I hope that the new buyer, also from the city, will not repeat his social mistakes.
Most of the people who live here are great and understand that they are in a new place and strive to become a part and work in our cultural, social and economic structures. Most of our new arrivals are beautiful, and we have a lot of them, since the population here in southern Delaware doubles every 6 years!
There is a tiny noisy person, only a few who come and hate him here. However, they left where they should live better in this area. We all see it. Locals call them ecological batons, tree hoops, bug kisses and much worse. These are people who have learned all about nature from the Walt Disney, Nature Channel, Discovery Channel and the Sierra magazine. And yes, they often have a college degree. They do not know that reality is different from their films, readings, classes and dreams. Therefore, too many of them leave the city, and then seek to enforce their ignorance and miseducation on those who are in the community to which they have joined. They try to intimidate others and try to get them to agree with the rules, regulations, concepts, and philosophy that they left behind in the city. NOT a good plan if they want to have a nice place to live. Many of these people think they know nature, trees, plants, animals, the earth, and everything else; than those families who lived in harmony with earthly life forms for decades or even centuries here. I hope my strong language above impressed you to read and study here, and not in the harsh hands of the rural community, if you do not pay attention to what's here.
It is advisable to visit the area in which you plan to live several times before moving there. Join the church, support the volunteer fire department, buy gas at the nearest gas station, buy your beer or wine at the local liquor store, get to know each public area, and visit community centers and charity groups in the area. Most of all, communicate with people and tell them that you are thinking about moving to this area and ask them for advice. Visit the club Lviv, Sertomu, Elk, Rotary, Red People, etc., and try to learn instead of learning. Listen, do not speak. Ask, do not say.
A little, if anything, a novice can teach the locals local things. If you must try to teach the locals something; if you try to teach them about your experience, where you came from, what you were paid in the past, about the job and the area you ran in (if you can find anyone who cares) you are on the wrong course and you will of course wreck.
Obviously, if you are one of those people who have left all these urban things, you are the one who really does not consider it valuable. Otherwise you should have stayed there. And you can argue that it is your neighbors who will think if you go to the countryside and take “everything is all right”, and I’m much smarter because I come from attitude. They may be calm or even polite in your presence for a while, but such an attitude can only cause hostility to those around you. And they will talk about you briefly to each other, and your bad attitude will precede you and it is almost impossible to correct it later.
Find out what needs and needs of the community are needed from new or potential members like you; really find out, do not guess or do not accept and do not leave the preliminary judgment from the photo. We had a lot of people who moved here to become marketing experts or PR experts or graphic design experts. None of the several dozen that I have met in the last 30 years is still in
and none of them exist yet, as far as I know. The service they hired to charge a lot of money was not needed at any price, even for free.
One of my clients from twenty-five years ago moved from San Francisco to “a small (popular 800) untouched, rural, quaint, picturesque city inhabited by the salt of the earth and earthly people” as she spoke about them at first. The couple I am talking about gave birth to their son, in fact they had a surgeon, so his voice did not change with age - all that he could sing in the world famous choir.
They wanted to start training local residents to build a "Boy Choir." They were furious that the local school district did not support the boy’s chorus, whom they were sure could be envy of the world if they could just show everyone how to do everything. A year later, they talked about “a nasty little town, full of silly, irritable, ignorant slush, shacks, shacks, old trucks, thick, toothless men, red necks, gossiping women, uneducated shirts and inbred hicks, the idea of which was beer and a hamburger in a pickup truck. “San Franciscans either. Their name rarely appears, and when this happens, it is not in a good mood or good vein.
I sell rural land, forests and houses. I like people who already live in several areas where I work. I like the clients I work with. At the same time, newbies fit well into the existing community. Some, very few, of my clients move around and spoil the area for themselves and for a while, for those already here. The only reason is that they did not learn about the REALITY of rural, rural life in a particular community before they buy there.
It is usually not possible to rent before buying in a certain area; so very, very wise to look good, before jumping into a rural community if you have not grown up there. Even if you grew up in the countryside and then did not keep in touch with family and friends, you may find that you no longer fit. But you can retrain those customs that you left if you really want to “return” to your robots. ”And if you have never lived in this area, you can learn ethnicity, customs, and learn to be a good neighbor.
IF you try to fit into a community and contribute to this community, in accordance with what is really needed and needed in this particular community - you can enjoy the type of heaven on earth in your new home.
One guy comes to mind who came, loved and was well loved. He was an expert on military radio, who traveled the world, made a lot of money, lived in Colombia and Northern Virginia for decades. He participated in the best, fastest and most expensive functions in the area, and after retirement he decided to move to our rural resort area. He moved here at the height of the Central Bank’s rampage, when almost all the villagers had a Central Bank and he wanted it to work better or to have it installed correctly in their house or car. He did all this for free for anyone who asked. In the end, he retired. Every time I visited him, he loaded my Wagoner with eggs, fruits and vegetables from farms, gardens and orchards of those he helped. I helped him create contacts that he wanted to make and get permits from private “fishing wells” from everything. He was a fisherman-trick and a release, and always cleaned all trash around the fishing box before he even began to fish there.
One of the neighbors was holding this gentleman's grass and told him that he was well versed if he bought the lawn mower wastefully. Another neighbor would not take nickel to replace the brakes on his car. Another neighbor fortified his roof for free. Some of the ladies in the neighborhood prepared an extra dinner for him two or three times a week and brought it. He was invited to dine somewhere in the neighborhood almost every night. And he was asked to tell about his travels around the world and about the bizarre parties he came to. He was healthy, and in fact was rich enough, because he lived simply, was well paid and invested well during his working years.
He could afford an expensive house, but instead he chose to live simply and well in his own means. His car broke down, was about 8 years old, once, and he fell, got out and planned to walk a couple of miles to get help. He told me that three cars stopped to skip it for a few minutes, and one of them, in a pick-up truck, connected the car and towed it to another house of friends, where it was installed free of charge.
He later sold the car at a very reasonable price to the lady next door who really needed some help. He sold it to her for $ 1,000 - that would give him a dealership, and a couple thousand less than one. He paid cash for another car for three years. He could afford a new Mercedes if he wanted to. He constantly told me how great his neighbors are. What for? Because he was a good neighbor for everyone else!
He passed away, we don’t know why, and there were hundreds of people at his funeral, more than most of the natives, and none of them was family ... He left a good legacy to the local volunteer fire department for the new equipment and asked instead this of flowers, people plant a tree. We use him as an example of a great newcomer, and he set all the standards for us, as neighbors!
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