Welcome to GoodByeCityLife.com
We are in the midst of a massive website update so as you surf around tonight you may find that some pages look a little different than others. Please don’t panic – you haven’t been whisked away to another website. As long as you see the GoodByeCityLife logo on the top of the page you’ll know you’re still here with us!
Everything should be fresh and new for you by Monday morning at the latest including a new discount rustic lighting store for all my die hard country decorators. I just love the new stuff that came in and I’m sure you’ll love it too!
Feel free to click around while we brush off the cobwebs and spruce things up a bit in this old Country store. You’re sure to find all the same information that has been on this site for the last eleven years as well as some new pages and resources to help make your country living experience even more fun, lucrative, and interesting than you had ever imagined.
About Country Living
GoodByeCityLife began as a labor of love back in 1998 when the internet was relatively young. We were the first website on the topic of country living back then, but our intent was merely to chronicle our life’s adventure and the transitions in attitude, lifestyle, conservation and health from the downtown big-city hustle to farm life.
We began as a 33 year old mother and her 3 year old daughter, 17 acres, an aging vehicle, no family income and no friends or relatives for hundreds of miles. Although that may sound a challenge too great for some, somehow we flourished and grew. I learned to earn my income online while home schooling my daughter, together we learned to raise chickens for eggs and meat, to keep goats for milk, to garden and to preserve our produce for the long winters.
Having been far too comfortable for many years in the city – buying everything I needed, contracting service companies to fix any issues – I quickly learned how to make the items we needed and how to fix house and farm items on my own, my tiny charge at my side. It goes without saying that she grew up seeing a few tears of frustration falling down my cheeks. But we made it. Indeed we did.
Your Move to the Country
I’ve ‘met’ a lot of souls over the years online who yearn to move to the country. Through emails and phone calls we discuss the challenges and shifts in thinking required to make the move. I still stand firm that there is no other life quite like farm life for emotional peace and physical well-being, for raising great children, for reducing your carbon footprint on our earth, and for a truer existence. By this I mean to take full responsibility for your life and family, to raise your own food, to consider every action and decision you make and to know that with every year you grow stronger as a human and as a family.
Grow your own food. Raise your own farm animals. Construct your own buildings. School your own children. There is no question now that the governments have failed us. Large corporations have scooped up and stolen our money. Feedlot livestock and poultry are making us sick. And school fall very short of educating our young while keeping them safe.
What else can you do to prepare yourself for this new adventure? Watch Food, Inc.
The first book did so well in fact that the publisher asked me to write another. Just released this year, The Joy of Keeping Goats, is also available.
Get gardening to grow healthy organic vegetables. Bake your own breads and make your own sauces, pickles, jam and salsas.
I hope to see you soon – whether on the website, in my email, or buying up the cute log home on 100 acres beside me to live the country life.
