As for north country living, I've decided to downsize a bit from 106-acres a few miles north-west of Upper Lake (part of which needs a week's worth of mowing using a small farm tractor every year) to 24-acres in the hill country west of Hwy 101 near Healdsburg and which needs no mowing as it's mostly covered with trees and it's quite hilly. That's fine with me as I most commonly dress as a hillbilly anyway.
I probably wouldn't have done this except for one thing: Lake county decided to make it legal to grow pot and the door was about to close for two years for anyone who wanted water rights for farming purposes. That little technicality caused my property value to pop up by over 25% overnight, and potential pot growers were all over me like ducks on a June bug. Well, that price hike was hard to pass up.
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