I'm always open to moral support... We chose NY for our homestead because of friends, family and the proximity to Europe (none stop flights). We are building for self reliance and who knows if there is a massive economic downfall one day, we'll be prepared!
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If nothing happens, and we recover this crash dive; you have picked an excellent quality of life! If the SHTF, you have picked an excellent quality of life; I see no downside here, LOL!
The last time My Son went to Europe (Rome) he had one stopover of about 90 minutes, I thought from Dallas. Family happens, and they are nice to have close! Better plan on some extras for SHTF scenarios.
Stay Blessed!
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True true, thank you for that, I do believe it is an excellent way of life we picked. Hard, but rewarding. I'm definitely not a dooms day type but we are for sure prepping for self reliance!
Cheers
I am not preparing for doomsday, but I am preparing to be off grid, to save time and money.
Yea, same reasons here!
I am putting in a large system, big enough to heat and cool the house too. My wife has MS, so she is sensitive to heat and cold. So the need for the oversized system comes from that.
I got you. A big system will do you good, especially for self reliance. Sorry to hear about your wife @smithlabs. Please keep up the good work, you're a good man!
She is actually improving (driving the doctors nuts!) with herbals GOD provides! They told me she would be gone by 2007, so every day is a blessing! She has been my one and only since she was 13, and she is 60 now, so I am keeping her! Her doctor asked her last Monday when she was going to start walking again; she is getting stronger!
I just got her home from the Hospital today (not MS related, she got a high fever) and I expected a fight over the Herbals she MUST take. BUT, when I went in, her Neurologist had written an order that I was allowed to treat her herbally, IN THE HOSPITAL! I must remember to thank him, the Pharmacy came up to ask questions, and told me they were warned NOT to interfere!
He has been asking me a lot of questions in the Doctors offoce, I guess he listened...WOW!
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But I am upgrading the house to a hyper insulation level, and adding some ultra high efficiency heat pumps called a Mini-split system. Each unit will heat and cool 700 square foot of building using only 900 watts of power. I will have about 1100 square foot on hyper insulated building, and about 2500 watts of panels; feeding 21,000 watts of batteries. Even if the batteries failed me, I could run the heat pumps from the panels directly.