Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the countryside?
I&#x27;ve done it, doing it. Not extreme countryside but bears, coyotes, turkeys, deer, etc. roaming through the yard everyday. Garden, few acres owned, hundreds of acres of woods around.<p>Major thing I&#x27;d note which bit us more than we expected: a typical &quot;farmhouse in the countryside&quot; is roughly equal to another full-time job when you add up all the time and money you have to put in. So if you have an SO, then another half-time job each. I&#x27;m comparing this to renting an apartment or condo or even a cookie cutter in the suburbs, of which we&#x27;ve done each also. And I&#x27;m not talking about the cost&#x2F;time to install that deck of your dreams. I&#x27;m talking about your water pump breaking in a heat wave, your heat dying during a snowstorm, your basement flooding in torrential rain, the slow decay of exterior woodwork begging to be replaced, etc. The plumbing in general...my god the plumbing. We&#x27;ve been in the house for over two years working our butts off and haven&#x27;t made any real forward progress yet, just battling entropy.<p>Anyway not to doom and gloom, just wanted to drive that point home. I highly suggest it regardless. We&#x27;re much saner and a little more financially ahead compared to living in a city, but we&#x27;re not exactly sipping mimosas watching the sunset every day. The house will be much more demanding than you think, so just something to put <i>in bold</i> on the balance sheet.