Stats on who simplifys their life

[flatwater]

Has there ever been a survey done or demographics on who pulls away from society? is there a certain age group or financial group who simplifies first? I wonder what the average age group is that subscribes to this forum?
Flatwater

[exodus]

Has there ever been a survey done or demographics on who pulls away from society? is there a certain age group or financial group who simplifies first? I wonder what the average age group is that subscribes to this forum?
Flatwater

I am 67 and began about age 42.

Exodus

[JAK]

I am 45, and began about age 42.

I'm still in a "know it all but still having a mid life crisis" phase.

[Southern_Gent]

I'm 34, but started looking into this a few years back, roughly around the age of 32. I would've liked to have found this site back then. ;D

[gracie88]

That would be an interesting study. I know that until we had kids I was ok living in town, liked the convenience and yes, ok, shopping. When we had kids, we suddenly could not get out fast enough, even my city-boy husband thought it was a good idea. I wonder what triggers it in others, age group, lifestyle changes, other factors? Also, are more people pulling out or does it just look that way from here?

I am 34 too, we moved out here last year.

[12vman]

I was a total city boy.. Never had any ambitions of camping or anything to do with farming or animals.. Gardens were boring..

About 18 years ago I woke up one day and decided to get outta Dodge. I had already purchased the property where I'm at as an investment at the time..

My sister was living in a larger city and wanted to move to the area where I was at. I owned 2 houses. I sold her both of them, Bought me a 20' camper, (used) Drug it out here in the middle of nowhere and called it home.. ;)

I had no clue of what was in store for me. I knew nothing! I couldn't turn back because I had no place to turn to. It was do or die.. :o

I'll be 50 this year and I ain't dead yet. I was reading those silly Mother Earth News magazines back then, Filling my head full of dreams and decided act on them. Best move I ever made in my life! ;D
~Don

[copperhead51]

Started at age 41. Y2K was catalyst.

[GeoBabe]

My life was simple when I was born. I grew up on the land my grandmother homesteaded, in the house my mother was born in. I was in my mid 20 when I had to buy meat from a store, I'm 44 now. I had to leave the country for about 12 years, then I came home. You can't take the country out of the girl. Thats a fact. 20 years ago I started recycling and 1 thing lead to another. My life is very simple now. Not easy but simple. I like it that way. I am teaching my children a simpler way of life.

[calliel]

I can't say we simplified - nothing seems simple these days! But we did reduce our debt and consumption of prepared foods, etc. We have always had a garden etc, but 2 yrs ago decided crime, etc was just too much in town. And, we want to choose our sons' friends that get to visit. I was 44 and I would like to think it is wisdom from God that motivates!

[TNDadx4]

I've always loved the simple life, but got caught up in the "rat race" of consumerism. I began starting to simplify life about 3 years ago, when I was 36.

[machinemaker]

I grew up in the sixties and seventies and saw the good side of simple in the alternative life styles. I have alway tried to live fairly simply and remarried a few year ago to a woman who had similar ideals.

[333]

Peace,

Have been planning, researching, and engineering on paper since teen years, and the first time on the Trail. The Adirondack's..... sooth me.

Saving change 15 years (no lie) I never took a penny or gave a penny, would rather have the change, and picked every single cent off the ground heads or tails.

Effecting my own employment ten years ago, one really good year, and the perfect lot (for me any way) evinced itself 3 years past.


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[Suzy]

Have just turned 55 but have been trying to have a simple homestead life for years....one of the early early magazines I wrote for had a little blurb about me and my family with an article I wrote about 1978 or 1979 and it talked about me heating my home with wood with my small children all running about and living "in the woods" (that was our previous homestead.)....

For a lot of folks, probably me included, its been kind of a transitional thing, as we get older we see what is REALLY important in life and try to get back to those important basics....

[Suzy]

Oh, and let me say, I wish our earlier homestead had been as "ideal" as that little magazine blurb made it sound!!! We had two and a half VERY HILLY acres, way out in the woods behind a Covered Bridge (which was wonderful) but everything was steep steep steep and our well was 250 feet deep....and SANDY....I don't know at the times we had to "pull" that submersible well pump to clean the sand out! even with filters on it!!!

[Hogleg]

Ive been wanting to have a house in the woods or in the country since I was young. Im 37 now, last year I sold our starter home in Spokane and have purchsed 12 acres in northern Spokane County. On our way to further independance.
We live in a 1974 single wide so we have no debt outside of the land loan. Looking to build something bigger soon.

[Katrina-Sisu]

I'm 23 but was raised with the "getting off the grid" lifestyle since I was born.

Kat