Reply #24: Just posted #21

[MuseRider]

It is the only way to do it as far as I am concerned. As much as some people dislike the idea, a small community can be everything one really needs to live and live well.

My venture into farming and ranching has proved this to me over and over again. There is nothing that can't be done by someone close by and there is nothing that they will not do to help you. You just have to respond in kind. It is a lovely kind of welfare, one reason I think that big city people do not understand why country people often don't like welfare programs. They don't understand it at all, they don't need it. Education on both sides could easily clear this problem up but nobody really wants to do it.

It is a lovely way to do things.