This land,these coffee trees, the cardamom, the views..Its very beautifull and peace. But when you live it,its a nightmare
No electricity,No real opportunities. No systems. No roads.
I jnherited this land from my village although most of the time i live in the city but… I wish I could just sell it and leave.
Because I’ve seen town life. I’ve felt it. The movement, the ambition, the access. Out here, everything feels slow. Stuck. Like life is happening somewhere else.
by zaafaranii
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Ohh i live in Tanzania,East Africa. This land is from my parents village but i was born and raised in town and village ..
Indeed, very beautiful. I’m sorry you feel isolated
Build a nice cottage and charge overworked foreigners to vacation on your beautiful property.
Agrotourism is for sure a thing.
I left the city and bought land in a small town and am not looking back. Growing food and having animals is a lot of fun for me. A lot to learn, a lot of opportunities for me. I’m thinking essential oils, medicinal herbs, market garden, teaching others how to make their own fertilizer and biological applications. Growing unusual foods is also good fun. Perhaps because you are used to the life you don’t see the opportunities? Once in the rat race you might understand the value of what you have or maybe the city is where you’ll thrive. But in my opinion and experience, the city promotes consumption and “getting ahead” usually involves some level of corruption or immorality.
I mean if you really do feel stuck you could always just sell it for a lower price or simply give it to someone who will make good use out of it.
If it’s not making you happy don’t feel like you have to stay just because it was inherited. In 1000 years nobody would ever know it was your family’s anyways, so why live your only life taking care of a place you have no desire to stay in? Why not just let someone else steward it and go live your life in the city if it’s really where your heart is.
So many people living the city life would love to get out and slow things down… but homesteading gets lonely and difficult physically and emotionally. We need to be able to find a balance… and I think the balance lies in communities. Homesteading would be much more enjoyable if there were other people near enough with which to trade for things and assist with projects and spend quality time with, but not so much that you’re forced to interact with a ton of people all the time.
Where I’m from, when folks have land that they cannot maintain full time, they have someone they know and trust work the land and sell whatever they produce from it, providing the owner with either some money from the profits or a portion of the harvest. I don’t know how that would work for you but it gives the person working the land a way to make a living and you also gain something from it while the land is keep in a decent state.
Life is what you make it friend. Batteries/solar for power and starlink for internet. If you have access to fresh water you’re golden. This is all under the assumption that you have the funds to do this. If not, yeah it sucks.
I like picture #3.
Is there a way you can get solar panels to help with the electricity issue?
I think that this is a “the grass is always greener on the other side” situation. Towns and cities suck for many reasons. They’re noisy, the air stinks, crime is high. Being out in nature can be amazing, but it can also get old. Maybe sell part of your property and continue to work a portion of it?
It is beautiful and it does look like a very peaceful place, but if you aren’t happy there, you aren’t happy there. Especially with the only way to get in or out of the area being a 2 hour hike through the mountains… that is a lot for a place you don’t want to be.
Just because you inherit something does not mean that you are obligated to keep it forever. It is yours to do with as you want. That means you can keep it, live there, and maintain the farm; you can keep it and do a land lease (or whatever similar is allowed in Tanzania), having someone else live there and run the farm, paying you rent and/or a portion of their profits while you live elsewhere; or you can sell it and use the money to buy yourself a home somewhere you want to live. You may hate it there, but it could be someone else’s dream life. It’s ok to sell or rent to someone who wants that life and to use the profit to help pay for your dreams.
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Living in the country but still within civilization is a happy medium I’d say. Is that an option where you are? You can still grow things and have privacy, but also have electricity and things like that.
Is that weed? Very cool 😎
This might be something to cross post to the subs OffGrid and Expat. Not sure if it’s allowed in the latter, but people there would still be interested.
why dont you just leave the land and go live in the town?
>Out here everything feels slow
Sign me up
But you’ve got a lot of weed growing there. Time to live the Rastafarian lifestyle