Fresh country air, beautiful sunsets, no neighbors, and peace and quiet. Seems perfect, right? Well, looks can be deceiving. As much as I love living in the country, it seems that we get all the luxuries of living in town, years after they have been established in town. When I finally moved to the city, I realized how much the people in town have it good, and people in town can’t simply believe that we have to deal with some of the things we deal with to survive in this technology driven world.
1. Having halfway decent wifi
“It works best when you cut a few trees down, or if the weather is good you might be able to load your email.”
2. Gravel roads
My road was gravel until about 2012.
3. Driving a distance to get to town
20 minutes to get to school, to work, and civilization.
4. Last roads to be plowed in the winter
Not necessarily a bad thing, because then we have more snow days, but you’re also the county's last priority to plow the roads back to civilization. Or driving anyway.
5. A significant amount of yard work
The worst job is probably picking up branches and sticks around the 40 acres of land ALL DAY, FOR 2-3 DAYS.
6. People getting lost coming to your house
99.9% of the time the GPS sends you to the wrong address because it’s that far out in the boonies. Or, when people finally find your house, they are like “wow, it took us so long to get here because we got lost!”
7. Power outages lasting hours to days
Once again, country folks are the last priority, so the power companies take their time coming out here. I went 3 DAYS WITHOUT POWER. Call me a wimp but that was literally the worst experience ever. Had to live like pioneers for a few days.
8. When fresh manure is spread on the fields
This is fresh country air x10, and it’s putrid. You choke to breathe for two days.
9. Following tractors/large farm equipment on the road
Literally makes me late for everything.
10. Pizza can't be delivered because you're out of the delivery range
This is the most devastating.
It’s quite a hard life.
