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> tough life and an isolating one The people who live on these huge plots of land and have space LOVE IT and would choose nothing else. I grew up in western P
by thejazzman 2y ago
> tough life and an isolating one
The people who live on these huge plots of land and have space LOVE IT and would choose nothing else.
I grew up in western Pennsylvania. I hate living in a city and would absolutely choose to have my own farm lol.
These are MAGA loud and proud people who could not be happier with where they are and what they do.
I realize this just vary given the article here? But it's definitely not an accurate reflection of what I see and interact with
- tim333 2y agoI guess you have different economic setups. Owning a farm outright to live on sounds cool. Being a tenant farmer or having a lot of debt on it sounds stressful. I'm guessing a lot of the suicides are the latter. My dad had a farm as more of a wealthy hobby farmer and it was a nice thing to have. It also did well economically but not in the obvious way - land prices shot up in spite of the actual farming making basically no money. It also had a 100% inheritance tax break (UK) which was nice and probably not totally justified in my dad's case. The farmers, including Clarkson, are marching in London today to protest changing that one. The economics of farming can be complicated.