Country Living vs. Suburbia
I live in the country, and I love it. Okay, I’m not crazy about the lack of nearby vegetarian restaurants and other progressive outlets, but the peace and serenity is awesome!
About ten years about, my husband and I bought a little fixer-upper in the middle of a great plot of land. We’ve made a lot of progress on the rustic little house, and we let a lot of the land go natural. It’s beautiful here, and I’m so thankful.
We’re not off-the-grid at this time (I hope someday we will be…), but it definitely feels like we’ve unplugged from society when we’re at home. Before this, we lived in a little one-bedroom apartment right in the city of Atlanta; so while I know it’s not as large as a lot of homesteads out there, our 23-acre spread feels like a sanctuary.
It truly suits me, as I don’t think I could ever be happy in a suburb. While I can appreciate a quaint neighborhood with sidewalks and tree-lined streets, I abhor the cookie-cutter developments that have no personality and no old growth trees. I think that’s why I’m so amused by the humorous quote by Bill Vaughan that captures this ironic element of our society: “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”
I hope you enjoy this design as much as I do!
Respectfully Submitted,
Kelly Palmatier
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