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Post by token on Apr 17, 2017 7:55:55 GMT 10
but the practicality is that as you get older you must consider the services your going to need in your old age, and to wait until your incapable to transition only means a lot of your efforts will go down the drain. Food for thought! Geek, the small town i live in has a whole lot of elderly people and some older folk are purchasing houses for their retirement out our way. Our town has a hospital, a GP, a Dentist, a gym, physio business's, an old peoples home and more. So unless you have very specific medical conditions that require over and above medical attention, you really have no need to live in a city if you are aged. In fact, being slower, and less stress, friendlier, cleaner air, quieter, room to get fit planting a garden or walking around an acre of property, tending to animals etc, an older person might just add more years to their withering flesh.
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Post by spatial on Apr 17, 2017 7:56:48 GMT 10
Thank you for that, it has got me wondering how a friend of mine has a deer hunters hut in a state forest and says he can because he has a mining lease....part of that was he had to have a big hole next to the building so it could be called a mine and that was part of the deal. But I have not seen that mate for a few years now and have no idea if his hut still exists of the lease is still going. I could not imagine him putting out very much money on his lease each year as he was pretty thrifty. Was he feeding me a load of cobblers do you think? Sounds fishy to me!! A major problem that has arisen in the last few years is that there are aboriginal land claims on all properties that are state owned and have no current land development or existing usage, which prohibits mining and exploration on those areas till the land claim is sorted out or one can get an agreement from all the hundreds of claimants.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Apr 19, 2017 5:45:53 GMT 10
Miners homestead leases in qld are a source of cheap land. Many greyer nomads avail themselves of this loophole, especially around the central qld gemfields and the like. Still a few cheap larger blocks coming up for sale around this area. Inland from bundaberg. A lot with houses and some without. 200 acres plus can be common and there are smaller blocks. You need to have the right mindset to make the move and the conviction to follow it through.
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Post by spatial on Apr 19, 2017 11:26:00 GMT 10
There are a lot of abandons mining villages in the outback where large mines which had complete infrastructure closed down, likewise there are some abandoned towns across the country esp in WA, Post SHTF event one could take a group with all your gear and colonise the facilities.
If you do a search for ghost towns for any state there is plenty of info, I was considering taking annual leave an visiting a number of the more promising places to check them out - one of the many projects I have on the 'back burner'. If one could get a group of people with plenty of gear -a number of cars or trucks with trailers, one could take all your preps and set up a good community.
Who is keen to investigate such an opportunity, one can just live as you are is suburbia and put a lot of effort into preps - then a post event just meet up their and start a community. Living in the larger centres or mining town one should have more disposable income to put into preps and only bugout if things totally fall apart!!
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Post by spatial on Apr 19, 2017 13:16:06 GMT 10
Those towns might be 'ghost' because they dont have the water or soil to sustain people. There are quiet a few out their that are sustainable, here is one listed in Jan 2017 for $1mill It is even listed as a potential 'doomsday community'. Need 5 people with $200k -300k each and there you have a set up community. It is towns like this that one needs to be aware of so when SHTF - one just colonises it and no cash needed!!!! Buy this entire abandoned town in WA for $1m Read more at homes.nine.com.au/2017/02/01/09/36/whole-town-in-wa-for-sale#R6M8G04A0woKT26Y.99 The property features 20 self-contained cottages (some large enough to sleep up to 10 people), tennis and volleyball courts, a town hall and workshop, a swimming hole, and walking trails. The cottages are on 40 hectares of C-class reserve and surrounded by state forest.
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 19, 2017 15:50:13 GMT 10
spatial the thing that would have worried me about the property you listed was the fact that right in the middle of your 'town' there were two privately owned residences. Coupled with the fact that the cottages can't be occupied year round (with the exception of the caretaker), so the residents might have first dibs on your town if you were headed there.
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