Leaving the Big City - Creating a life of Self-reliance

First of all I would like to apoligize for not writtin very much lately. I could give you all my excuses but excuses are really just worthless in the end.

So, a few years ago my family and I decided to leave New York City to start manifesting our dream. That's when we moved a couple hours north of the city. We were able to buy a mostly wooded 20 acre property, with a river running along one of its sides. Yeah we have our own private swimming hole, the whole place is magical really!!!!

The idea was to build a multi-family homestead that looked and felt a bit like all the fun places we loved while traveling the world. If I were to put an image to the vibe I want to recreate in our community take a look at pretty much any Manu Ciao's album covers. Here's a quick search of his Discography.

The thing is, building a dream takes so much more time than I expected... After a few years, we're still sitting in a community of three, sometimes four people, and it feels like nothing's moved in the right direction!!!

It feels like that but things actually have moved, we can see progress, and we are getting closer to a life of self-reliance everyday. I just have to steer this boat a little more. And today this is exactly what I'd like to talk to you about.

A couple years ago, I had a feeling I should sell my tiny Brooklyn apartment but I didn't because I had a friend living in it, it was my crash pad when I came to work and it didn't cost me a dime. Fast-forward to April 2021, that game finally caught up to me and bit me in the ass a little. I wasn't allowed to sub-let the place and it had to be my primary residence... Obviously it wasn't and it hadn't been for close to four years. I was breaking two rules, and was "asked" to sell. Long story short, I was happy to sell because with this pandemic sort of appearing to come to a close, vaccines becoming avaiable to everyone, and the summer well on it's way, all these city people regained their confidence in life. That made selling an apartment very fast, and at asking price!!! I couldn't ask for a more opportune time to sell. I almost want to thank and kiss the snowflakes who forced me to sell, but I'd rather let them rot in their own demise because I have better places to put my energy towards 😁.

Selling this apartment, my last real tie to New York City is a big step for me. It's a massive step actually for my walk to freedom, though we are staying in the oppressive state of New York, we’ve created our little slice of heaven, freedom, and continue to grow our extended community.

It’s a big deal for a couple of reasons:

1- Timing, as Brooklyn real estate prices dropped slightly from a couple of years ago, it also came back up when people thought the world was getting back to normal. The word on the street suggests that shit will hit the fan soon, and when it does real estate in all those big cities will lose a lot of value.
2- We now have some capital to build up our dream, become more self-reliant and start homesteading for real.

To build the life I want, I have to keep moving towards certain goals. The main goal was to cut off all ties to NYC. While I still have a job that is based out of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, I’ve been able to work close to home and simply outside of the city. There is more and more movies and TV shows being filmed upstate New York, including some HBO show that will last through the winter 2022, 5 minutes from the homestead!!! Yeah I’m getting on that job for sure, I have to. The apartment was the last real tie, and it’s finally gone! I can’t believe it, but I know that it feels really really good. It’s like a massive weight has been taken off my shoulders.

Next Steps

A house for winter. So we’ve decided to buy a home close to the property so we can concentrate on steering the dream back on track. I spend too much time fixing and building human comforts for ourselves. Travel trailer aren’t made for living in full time, systems break a little faster than in a brick and mortar home… So, living in a real house near by should help with that pressure, and I will have more time to spend on building the business part of the dream; an education center for Self-reliance, Natural Building, and Rewilding.

Getting rid of negative energy. We got lost a little and the whole thing was starting to go in a direction I am not happy about. There’s been something holding us back from building a community, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, until recently when my brother and law nearly died from an overdose. From now on, all hard drugs are banned from this Sanctuary. I did not want to take people’s freedom to do what they want away because I don’t really have a problem with any of it as long as it doesn’t affect others, but the negative energy that drugs like cocaine and pharmaceuticals bring onto a property is starting to keep people from wanting to stay. On top of it we have a lot of friends with kids who don’t need to see the zombies of the morning after hanging around still drinking beyond oblivion in a mess of cans and bottles! It’s pretty simple, if you’re affecting the growth of our dream, you will be escorted out… as soon as you’re sober enough to drive.

Well, on that note, I think I’m done writing today…. Though to steer this ship back towards a more positive field of energy we’re changing her name to ARTEMISIAN SANCTUARY. Let me know what you think please