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My neighbors are farmers, but I honestly doubt I could manage all that work. We do get fresh vegetables in season at the farmstand, sometimes fruit. As a kid, I used to love walking down the street to see the cows and baby animals. The only downside is the manure smell, but that's only occasionally.
I could never live in the city. Too crowded, loud, and polluted. Let alone the crazy traffic to get anywhere.

If I was close to being homeless, yes. Being a farmer means that you would be entirely self sufficient. In the U.S., usually farms are what are termed "rural" and have the lowest cost of living. Instead of buying a house for like hundreds of thousands in the city, people on farms get by by paying very little because they do not use up many resources.

Food is a huge resource and if you can make that yourself, you can always write off that expense. If you can live without electricity and water, that would be HUGE!

Of course, to have a farm, I would need to live in a better state. The state I currently live in snows and has HIGH heat days. The temperature is always to one extreme. I would need a consistently moderate climate if I were to work on that said farm everyday.

I grew up in the country surrounded by farms. My parents both grew up on farms. Even though they gave up farming, We did have a goat for a few years and my father raised pigs for butchering. We kids always helped out with the feeding and care of all of our animals. We always had a huge vegetable garden so we helped my mother with that and all of the canning.
I live in a small city now, not too far away from where I was raised. My husband and I prefer it to the country. It's more convenient being closer to stores, businesses, the doctor, etc....
There is something good to be said about both ways of life. Sometimes I miss the quiet of the country. Farming is hard work though. It's also chancy what with the changes in the weather. It's a gamble with the crops. I have a great respect for those who continue to farm. We need farmers!

I don't think I could become a proper farmer. But it would be nice to live in the countryside and have a garden big enough for some vegetables and a few chickens. But I'd still need to work something else, and work in the countryside is scarce.

As for living itself, I like both. I like the clean air and easier pace of the countryside. There's also a more communal spirit there I feel (besides the fact that everyone is in your business). But after two weeks I get fidgety. And since I was raised in the city, I'd miss that kind of life. There's always something going on. There are also more opportunities here and it is more convenient from the perspective of medical care, taking a course or just going out on a whim.

So, it's nice to go to the countryside to recharge, or even retire some day, but I still prefer the city for actually living in for now.

I'm not cut out for it. I can't even keep houseplants alive. The only food I grow is a lemon tree that I do nothing to it, don't water or fertilize it, and it just makes tons of lemons all year around. It gets enough water from rain even though we have 6 months every year with no rain it still lives, it must have very deep roots and finding water down there somewhere!
Most food crops need a lot more effort than my mutant lemon tree.

Farmers life is too hard, too much work, you have to get up too early. I have massive respect for those who can, but it's just not for me.
I sometimes think I might like to have a couple of chickens. I'm vegetarian but not vegan, I do like eggs but I'd feel less guilty eating them if i had my own chickens and knew they had a good life, not living in horrible cramped cages. But then they get too old to lay eggs and you pretty much have to kill them or keep them as a pet... I don't eat chicken and I don't want to kill a chicken. So it's problematic.

My grandma lives in the country, its an hour and a hlaf of drive and I go there as often as I can. (went there this week-end actually) I call it my paradise city. Love the smell and the peacefulness. I ride around with my bike, petting dogs, horses and swimming in the cric. I doubt I could live there though. It would lose its appeal after a while. (once stayed there for a whole month for work and was not yet tired)

I've been living on an inactive farm for three decades, but in a few weeks I'll happily be living in the city. It's not that I dislike the village, but I do dislike the lack of facilities. There's no work, no shops and if you need something, you'll have to travel for at least half an hour. Commuting to work takes an hour, commuting back another hour.

I'm very much looking forward to the city. I'll have a shopping centre on three minutes walking, and my work is literally opposite of my apartment. It'll take some time to get used to, especially the lack views. But it makes up for having stellar public transport. Ten minute tram and you're at the beach. Half an hour train and you're in a natural park. There's more opportunities in activities, and I'm looking forward to not dreading them because everything takes so much time because everything is so far away. :)

I was on a farm once, cows, chickens, pigs and horses, what a stench, it's like living in an outhouse, no thanks,