@Eiregoat @nugger @whiteman_ No, sometimes my connection is bouncing between networks though.
There’s easy-ish stuff but all the shit you need is all another point of failure. You raise poultry ? Cool, how do you hatch them? Need a brooder, need to be able to ensure you’re successfully hatching and raising them w/ minimal wastage. Got pigs? Where will you scoop and haul their shit? You up to spend ever night before garbage day shoveling out the stable? You wanna have to order hay for your cows and refill the shed every month?
All these things take time, and time is immensely valuable if you have a successful, high-flying career. You can make it work, yeah, but people really need to quit underestimating how much work goes into rural homesteading. You’re surrounded by expensive timebombs. The tractor breaks. You just lost your weekend. Your fenceline got collapsed in a storm, now you have to go mend it in the driving rain so the animals don’t escape. Uh-oh! Looks like your well’s drying up! Hope you got a hookup, because drilling down further will cost about $80k!
It’s ideal if you can swing it, but you can’t do it alone. You need LOTs of bodies and family in order to spread the workload out, and you can’t have shirkers hanging inside playing vidya. Also your internet probably sucks, enjoy having sub-DSL speeds in a lot of the country. (probably for the best, actually, but still irritating)