[Thy-abundance]

Been planning to move for three years now but every year there is more obstacles than path ways. I’m born and raised her and have traversed the world in travel but there is no place like home …ever!

It’s the cost of living in this deep blue/black state that has me wanting to leave. I love my home and have built a beautiful garden and farm but the cost and regulations have made growing food harder and harder. We even have what I call an over the fence regulation that you can’t share seed with your neighbor. I have been writing a growers diary and chart for many years and have never had weather like we have now. I also understand the atmospheric changes going on since I followed that as best I can for years. We went from no rain with 120 degree heat to now this day freezing and rain. I live at a higher altitude closer to volcano, and love what little I call cold 50’s cold but it’s raining hard makes growing challenging. I have a beautiful hoop house that was built built but it’s not enough. I’ll have another built if we stay and the weather stoops pouring. That’s a huge IF ?

I’ve looked and my biggest concern is the cold. So I’ve been looking for a home with a well, or alternative water source. Stream, creak a spring at a upper elevation would be wonderful maybe. Property with wooded forest I can cut trees for firewood and animals like hunt dear. I understand the growing season is even less days than I have here where I grow all year long. I have a nice big property that has an fruit orchard I made a priority to plant when I first bought.

There’s so much to consider as living in the tropics our greatest problems are always hurricanes and earthquakes since I live in the you youngest island that’s always growing. We were rocked in the 2018 earthquake that was a 6.1 just three miles from here. That’s when fissure 8 opened up and poured out thousands of tons of molted earth. We had absolutely no help from gov so the community pulled together to help those who lost everything when the volcanic lava took their lands and homes. Oh we had one representative come out hand out bottled water for some pictures and left forever. It was then that I woke and reprised we here are really on our own. Then again when we had the hurricane sit right off the side I live coast that gave our area sustained 75 mph winds in 2015 for hours and rain that fell 17 inches an hour no help either. We were told on the phone call us when the danger passes. 🤯

Sorry I digress. ….sorry!

I’ve gathered information and have been peeling of cons as I learn more. It might just be as Danny said…”there is no safe place”

I don’t want safe I want left alone and persevere.

I would love to continue fishing. Love that!

So my main concern is cost of living and laws allowing us to grow and have animals. Also to be able to grow hay for them and feed. There’s so much to consider but I am blessed for your answering my thoughts.

The more I glean maybe the more sound decision I can form.

Again thank you

Aloha from Paradise on earth

But paradise in constructive !

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