Our son turned nine this week. When I think about when we "started" there's lots of different dates. How do you decide when you started working towards your dreams? There's never really a start and I'm sure there won't be an end. It's one of those annoying "journey" stories. But there are some hard markers along the way.
We have arrived at this current goal of financial independence and early retirement in the context of the following things -
1 - We have always wanted to have a country home
2 - We've been careful with our money (when we have a goal)
3 - The sustainable/permaculture/homesteading lifestyle is very appealing to us
Most of our lives it has been a dreamy wish, not something we would actually ever be able to do. Our work in the city is highly paid and it feels like we spend all that money every month - so how could we move away from that and still be able to live? That kind of work doesn't exist in rural Australia. The mindset that we would continue to need our six figure salaries while we lived in the country never seemed strange, it was just a reason not to go after it.
So instead we bought our country place as a "weekender" so we could play at being homesteaders, spend holidays and weekends, plant some trees and grow some veges and then maybe one day when we finish working and can access our super we could retire there, you know - like when we are 60.
For the first year that seemed like an amazing plan - we now HAVE our farm, and it's beautiful, but just being here on weekends and school holidays, how can that ever be enough?
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