Assuming we can all retire, where do you think our generation will retire to? Do you think most will relocate or most stay out? Do you think they will relocate to the south or north? Out of the country?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what actually makes a life feel interesting or meaningful.
My wife and I both work fairly normal jobs, have two little kids, and are pretty busy all the time. But over the last few years we’ve slowly accumulated all these different parts of life that feel fulfilling together. In my mind they are also somewhat unique -- at least, the people I know don't really have the breadth of hobbies.
We garden, keep chickens, have bees, cook from scratch most nights, bake bread, camp, sail, hike, work on our house, etc. My wife sews during the winter and I mess around with electronics projects. Most evenings are some combination of work, dinner, outdoor projects, and trying to keep our kids occupied.
None of it feels particularly extraordinary, a lot of the time it just feels tiring honestly. But I recently started filming little food/life videos and it made me realize I genuinely can’t tell whether this kind of life feels interesting to other people or if it’s just “normal adulthood with hobbies.”
I think part of what I’m trying to figure out is whether people are craving more grounded/tactile lives now because so much of modern life feels abstract and online.
Does this resonate with anyone else? Or am I romanticizing my own life because I’m the one living it?
This really isn't meant to be a controversial post or a comment on society, but as a man I find this to be absolutely hilarious. As I work more and more with animals I start recognizing how little utility the males of other species have. Roosters are culled or given away for free, male bees are kicked out of their hives, steer are butchered while females are kept.
I dunno, I just find it somewhat funny. It really puts a lot into perspective especially as I raise my young daughter in this setting. It's hard to talk about with many of my friends because they all live in the city, so I'm sharing it here.
These all basically use the same ingredients:
- Rotisserie chicken
- Cottage cheese
- Romaine lettuce
- sweet potato
- tomato
I had some leftover quinoa, pickled red cabbage, and pickled onion so those are used as well.
I cook everyday for my family. I may as well document it. My page (3 posts so far) is dedicated to showing how real people can eat with real constraints: budget, time, health.
I’m trying to work on my hook and pacing. And just general editing. I’ve never done this, so this is all new to me.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
My wife and I have this house on a few acres out in the country. We’re using it as a “hobby farm” in that we’re planting an orchard, gardens, raising chickens, and bees.
In attaching some of the surrounding because I think it provides context. I would like the house to “blend in” if that makes sense.
Also, we are currently establishing a raised bed garden in the overgrown/patchy part of the lawn in front of the house
We dug out this section to add raised garden beds — we will have these 4 and then 3 smaller round ones. We will lay down weed barrier in the dug out part. My goal is to make this low maintenance because I don’t want to manage grass or weeds.
In my mind I can go two directions: mulch or crushed gravel/rock. I feel like mulch would look more rustic (better for me) while rock would look cleaner. Mulch would be easier to lay, but possibly more maintenance going forward.
I’m curious what you all would do. Also interested in any other advice you have.
The title is basically self explanatory but I hear a lot of complaints about unaffordable housing — how small apartments cost 500k or single family homes cost $1M. In all of these instances, if you ask where they live they will name a massive city.
There are hundreds of areas in the US that are affordable, that enable people to buy homes in the 300k range. If home ownership is so important then these people should move and if they don’t, then they don’t have a right to complain about housing prices.