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Grew up on and still help manage a production farm. It's not the bucolic pastoral lifestyle that people envision. First, it is wildly expensive. If I were going to take back over family property that we currently have leased, I'd be looking at a minimum of around $2M just in machinery costs - and that is for okay used machinery. Land values will be multiples of that in most areas if looking to purchase. Inputs are wicked expensive, commodity prices fluctuate wildly, and you are at the mercy of weather and climate. You can do everything right, and still lose your crop at the last minute - which is devastating. The work is long days of some sometimes back-breaking tasks in the hottest of hot summer days and coldest of winter. You're perpetually fighting changing programs and regulations. Good help is insanely hard to find and retain. You don't get life insurance, 401ks, and benefits. In short, it's a hard lifestyle with some upside but a ton of risk that is mostly out of your control.
I still love it, as it's my family business and heritage, but most people have no idea what it actually entails and how stressful of a life it can be. There's a reason I'm in the professional world.
While you make a good point. Hobby farms are not exactly low maintenance endeavors. It still takes a ton of money, time, and labor.
When I say I want to live on a farm I mean 5-ish acres not in a BS subdivision, with a personal garden plot, some baby goats, chickens, barn cats, dogs, and ducks. If I’m very well off, I’d do a hobby farm of some sort but that’s a long shot for sure.
Chief
Money…?
Chief
And I’m saying their dream life rests on certain assumptions that don’t really have anything to do with the actual lifestyle, like having money to actually live that lifestyle lol
Tbh most of the people saying this would probably be bored out of their minds living in a farm
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Then why don't you move to more rural area and take an easier job?
Because we are living in a nightmare
With a farm, means have a ranch, a couple of nice horses, a barn, a couple of servants, and so on. Cost millions
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.... bruh.... servants.....
Working a farm is not a peaceful life in America at least. It’s almost impossible to break even and many farmers are forced into bankruptcy from large conglomerates
Farming is not easy. It’s pretty grueling in fact. I think most office workers would be really shocked and not get much enjoyment out of that kind of rural life.
People have no money. They work. They have some money.
Farm costs money. Lots of money.
People work more to have enough for farm money.
I don’t understand what’s so hard for you to understand.
Chief
Having been unassigned for three months before, it is fun for a second but if you don’t have unlimited money it’s really not fun to be doing nothing all the time
Are you dense? You know people work for money to get to their dream lives right?