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Excellent suggestions, thanks! We're looking at renting a house at the Ithaca Eco Community to help the kids with socialization and to continue the intent to l

Excellent suggestions, thanks! We're looking at renting a house at the Ithaca Eco Community to help the kids with socialization and to continue the intent to let the kids open the door and just go out and play with friends in nature. One of the other benefits is that there are lots of other residents that grow food and they let you set aside land to grow your own stuff. We're not really hunters, but it's never too late to learn. We'll get a freezer and probably try to find a local hunter willing to let me pay for processing in exchange for half of the meat. Excellent suggestion about the Mennonites. Our goal is to buy some land within 10 minutes of town and build a small cabin during our first year. Then we'll use that as a stepping stone to build a real home over a few more years, depending on disposable income. We don't like financing things.

rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
Great plan! If you don't plan on hunting you can get a cow/half cow easy. Best place to buy land is to the east in the Dryden/Freeville area. Mostly because it's cheap and it has good bus connections. Anything in the town or city of Ithaca is (seriously) at San Francisco levels of cost relative to average income. The real house might be best placed to the south in the Danby area, since it's also cheap and there's a lot of south hill development (past IC) being planned, so the value is gonna go up in the next few decades. It's also the best way to get to New York (south via Owego). I hope you enjoy the most good enough place in the world :)