[Tim Hancock]

edit (Yes, I was the one being quoted in the title of this post. It was meant to prove a point in a previous post)

I have lived in the city and in the country. I presently work 40 miles away in the craphole city of Toledo but live out in the sticks where I own 9 acres (5 of which is a grass runway). I have a pond, a 1941 Ford 9N (to mow the runway), a 50 x 80 heated pole building and a 40 yr old split level.

You absolutely could not pay me enough to move back to the city. When I get home, the last thing I want to do is head into the city to waste a night partying (I did enough of that while I was younger). I am happiest when I am out in my shop playing with cars or planes or whatever. (Other benefits include: shooting in the backyard, riding dirt bikes in the backyard, fishing in the backyard, flying real and model airplanes in the backyard, swimming in the backyard, kayaking in the back yard, sleeping at night w/out hearing traffic noises, etc etc). I have found that the little "po-dunk" school my kids go to, seems to have fewer problems w/ drugs and whatnot than the urban schools.

Luckily I have a wife who was raised in a rural area, so she likes it where we are.

To each his own, but unless urban sprawl encroaches on us, we will never be doing any house hunting ever again.