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Would you leave for, 'a new life in the wild'? What would be/is your perfect home?

Marianne72

I love watching Ben Fogle's, 'New Lives in the Wild.' I wouldn't have the courage to up-sticks like this, but dream of somewhere tucked-away, town or city, close to GP, interesting shops, library & hospital [signs of ageing!]. I now live in rented; a pleasant bungalow in the country, 2 fairly large gardens, but like many villages there are few resources.

What is your ideal dream home? Do you live there already? What makes it 'home' for you?

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  • I’ve sort of found my dream home, I previously lived in a village about 25 miles from London for about 25 years. I am married and we have sold up and bought a cottage in Cornwall. It is quite off grid, we have water from a borehole that is pumped to storage tanks. No mains sewage but a new septic tank system.  There is still a well in a small wooded area.
    No gas, we heat with a wood burner but will be getting oil heating. We have a phone line but still haven’t had broadband put in or a phone connected.  We have electricity and hope to get solar in the future. No neighbours and about an acre of land. I want to get back into gardening.
    We are 7 miles from the coast, it’s near enough but also far enough. I tend to stay away from the tourist areas in the summer. About 3/4 of a  mile away there is a community run Post Office and village shop. A chippy van visits the village every other week.

    I also enjoy watching the Ben Fogle program, I read that he struggles when he has to reintegrate with the world.

  • in reply to Roy

    Are you sure about oil fired heating? I know a lot of people round here have it and are desperate to move away from it, it's expensive and the price really varies depending on who you get the oil from and there can be problems with deliveries. Another problem is theft, there seem to be small gangs that steel heating oil, usually when you've just had a delivery, they leave the taps open so anything they can't take just spills out on the ground. The polution this causes is down to you to sort out and it can render land unuasable for ages.

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    I think the trick to living in a village is to be friendly to everyone and friends with no one, that gives any gossips little to work with, especially if they don't come into your house or garden. That said there are a couple of neighbours I'm friendlier with than others, but thats probably because they feel the same way as me and don't want to live in other peoples pockets.

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  • in reply to Roy

    Are you sure about oil fired heating? I know a lot of people round here have it and are desperate to move away from it, it's expensive and the price really varies depending on who you get the oil from and there can be problems with deliveries. Another problem is theft, there seem to be small gangs that steel heating oil, usually when you've just had a delivery, they leave the taps open so anything they can't take just spills out on the ground. The polution this causes is down to you to sort out and it can render land unuasable for ages.

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    I think the trick to living in a village is to be friendly to everyone and friends with no one, that gives any gossips little to work with, especially if they don't come into your house or garden. That said there are a couple of neighbours I'm friendlier with than others, but thats probably because they feel the same way as me and don't want to live in other peoples pockets.

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