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How to tell where you live and if you are homesteading

 
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Someone explained this to me today:
If you can stand on your porch naked and your neighbors can't see you, you are rural.
If you can stand on your front porch naked and the neighbors can see you, you are urban.
If you can stand on your front porch naked and the neighbors call the police you are suburban.
If you run naked to the chicken coop because you forgot to close the door you are homesteading.
 
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No problem at all with neighbours or police, but I suspect the train drivers all know to look for me as they go past...

 
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By this definition, Robert, I'm definitely homesteading, lol! Walking the dogs (sighthounds/spaniels must be leashed on our property, for their own safety) is occasionally done in the buff, too!
 
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In the buff … no, but all the livestock have seen me in my BVDs.  The police have not been involved. The only ones to express an opinion has been the goats …..baaaad!  I keep the cell phone away from them.
 
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