Hi Alissa, lovely to find your comment here from England amidst all the others. I share that it feels different here in respects to the opportunity to ever own any amount of land. We live in suburbia/edge of a city at the moment but are blessed with a garden that’s about 100ft long. I’ve really enjoyed hearing what you are doing to prepare as it weighs on my mind, and although we do bits and pieces I would feel comfortable putting a little more thought and time and energy into it.
Hi Alissa and Charlotte, I am in England too. Lovely to read your posts. I have a town size garden and a small allotment. This year I have embraced poly culture gardening and have squeezed in veg in every available space. It’s been going really well, but we really need some rain. Never known it to be so dry!
It's so interesting to read these comments, thank you for sharing. Are there not rural areas, far and away that still have some possibility? Here it would be hard to afford land in many areas, but there are still some far off places you can make a go of it. I know we are talking monumental differences in land mass, but are there other issues around rural land access?
Skills are important! I think they'll be the new currency in the unfolding, local economies.
As Alissa mentions there are some places, but since Covid I think the prices in rural areas have gone up lots because so many people are no able to work remotely, so lots of people who wouldn’t have previously moved out to rural areas. Our best chance as a family would be if we could buy somewhere in the future with my parents, who are from a generation where house prices were still low and they’ve benefited greatly from the huge increase in house prices. I do really like the idea of intergenerational living and feel that could be a real benefit to whatever changes are headed our way.
Hi Alissa, lovely to find your comment here from England amidst all the others. I share that it feels different here in respects to the opportunity to ever own any amount of land. We live in suburbia/edge of a city at the moment but are blessed with a garden that’s about 100ft long. I’ve really enjoyed hearing what you are doing to prepare as it weighs on my mind, and although we do bits and pieces I would feel comfortable putting a little more thought and time and energy into it.
Hi Alissa and Charlotte, I am in England too. Lovely to read your posts. I have a town size garden and a small allotment. This year I have embraced poly culture gardening and have squeezed in veg in every available space. It’s been going really well, but we really need some rain. Never known it to be so dry!
It's so interesting to read these comments, thank you for sharing. Are there not rural areas, far and away that still have some possibility? Here it would be hard to afford land in many areas, but there are still some far off places you can make a go of it. I know we are talking monumental differences in land mass, but are there other issues around rural land access?
Skills are important! I think they'll be the new currency in the unfolding, local economies.
As Alissa mentions there are some places, but since Covid I think the prices in rural areas have gone up lots because so many people are no able to work remotely, so lots of people who wouldn’t have previously moved out to rural areas. Our best chance as a family would be if we could buy somewhere in the future with my parents, who are from a generation where house prices were still low and they’ve benefited greatly from the huge increase in house prices. I do really like the idea of intergenerational living and feel that could be a real benefit to whatever changes are headed our way.