Hello World! Welcome Friends! Escaping to the countryside can be an adventure for many people, especially those who may have lived in urban environments for most of their life, and as such, totally pine for a change.
However, it’s true that even when making dramatic life decisions like this, there are rarely any exacting manuals that teach you how to proceed in every single direction you could pursue. For this reason, it’s often a good idea to shake some of your faulty assumptions before committing to such a large life milestone.
Escaping to a rural environment and living in a countryside home can be a tremendously beautiful change, but it does require work, planning and attendance too. No matter how gorgeous your home is, or how wonderful the people are, and how much you can relax into a slower and more confident pace of life, it’s important to consider just what may take you unawares.
In this post, we’ll discuss three considerations that most newly rural families notice the most, and how to crest those changes for the better. Let’s get started:
Septic Considerations
In the rural environment, it’s unlikely that your home will be connected to the greater sewage network afforded to cities and towns. This is for obvious reasons. That said, the waste from your home has to go somewhere. This is why septic tanks and the usage of its appropriate septic service are important to install and utilize because this can help you keep hygienic, safe, and over time, economical with this very necessary need. This can be a new consideration for many first-time rural homeowners, so it’s best to deal with this approach early.
Security & Home Protection
It’s also a good idea to protect your rural home, as you may not be afforded the benefits of social security that come when you live near neighbors you know. This might involve installing floodlights that detect motion and light up when someone approaches your house, no matter what angle they come from. It may mean making sure you have a dog or at least a beware of the dog sign, and that your property is marked so people know when they’re trespassing. Little techniques like that are important in a rural area.
Planning For Convenience
The only downside (some may consider this an upside) to living in a rural area is that you don’t have immediate and comforting access to everything you had before. This means you have to plan a little. For that reason, investing in a freezer to store large orders of purchased meat or food products, as well as making sure you go for large, longer term shops rather than visiting the grocery store each day can be important. Planning for convenience, even stocking up on the little things, can help you being caught out, especially at the weekend or if online shopping takes a little longer to get to you.
With this advice, you’re sure to plan your escape to the country as appropriately as possible.
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