How Peak Oil Will Shatter Cities Like Merriam, Kansas

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We moved here when we retired several years ago.

Guess we read too many Mother Earth magazines.

We did carefully weigh the pros and cons and wanted to simplify our life.

After 20 years of living next to a nosey batshit crazy person next door we wanted a bit of elbow room. Our nearest neighbor is two miles away.

We love nature and spent most every day off camping in a place just like this.

We have become almost carbon neutral with solar electric, a well with great water, wood heater, a large garden, a car that gets 40mpg+, and great people around who live much the same life. We see regularly elk, deer, antelope (pronghorn), Javelina, rabbits and yes, snakes.

We have seen Mexican wolves from our deck. When we do travel, if we see more than two cars on the dirt road, we call it "rush hour." I have a heart condition and probably wouldn't make it to a hospital, but I choose that and am comfortable with it.

I can play my stereo at full blast, shoot my guns from the front or back door without worry. Our beloved dog can run at his heart's content and has made friends with the coyotes and birds and the rabbits. Rattlesnakes? If they a ways from the house I never hurt them, after all this is their home also.

I am really happy that the internet is available via satellite and so is TV.