{"id":25003,"date":"2016-03-18T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25003"},"modified":"2016-03-18T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:07:41","slug":"friday-freedom-question-wherehow-would-you-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/18\/friday-freedom-question-wherehow-would-you-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Freedom Question: Where\/How would you live?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I once lived in a town where the most successful realtor had a huge home with its own golf course (just six holes, but still …). Incongruously to me, this estate sat bang on the side of a main highway, enduring vehicle noise day and night.<\/p>\n

Apparently I wasn’t the only person who wondered why anyone with that much money would choose such a public location. When a curious acquaintance asked him, he had the perfect (and IMHO perfectly awful) answer: “What’s the point of being successful if nobody can see that you are<\/i>?”<\/p>\n

My idea of successful householding is about the opposite. If I were “as rich as Creosote” (a Terry Pratchettism<\/a>), I’d build a tiny gem of a house (fan shaped, with a sweep of windows on the rounded side and movable shoji-screen walls within) on a hilltop in the middle of 50,000 wooded acres. It would have a single winding access road nobody could even find and no sounds other than those provided by nature (or perhaps a few strategically placed manmade brooks or waterfalls). It would be in the State of Jefferson, near the coast, and the hilltop would be cleared enough that I could enjoy a sweeping ocean view. But nobody — nobody — would ever “view” me. <\/p>\n

How about you? If you could live anywhere and any way you wanted, what would you do?<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

BTW, I have a bigger blog I’m working on this morning. I’ll probably schedule it for posting on Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I once lived in a town where the most successful realtor had a huge home with its own golf course (just six holes, but still …). Incongruously to me, this estate sat bang on the side of a main highway, enduring vehicle noise day and night. Apparently I wasn’t the only person who wondered why anyone with that much money would choose such a public location. When a curious acquaintance asked him, he had the perfect (and IMHO perfectly awful) answer: “What’s the point of being successful if nobody can see that you are?” My idea of successful householding is…<\/p>\n

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