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i dont dream to be rich and have a big house somewhere (although it would be nice)
i dream about just buying 3-6 acres of land buying a static caravan and living out my days watching my horses graze next to me eventually maybe saving enough to build a flat pack home and going eco friendly (cheap house building costs and cheaper bills)
does anyway else have the same way of thinking as i do? or have you done it? would love to know xx
 
definately!

we keep looking into it and the only way its feesable is to move to france!.....in a few years it might even be a reality :)
 
Yep, although we were lucky enough to own our own paddock for a while we sold it a few years back now. Would love to have my own land again and manage my horse exactly how I want, and not be dictated too by land owners.

Like Noodle though, the only feasable way we're going to do this is by moving abroad.
 
I am lucky enough o be living my dream, we lost everything 5 years ago we has £2000 in the bank lost a buisness and our rented house and our leased car our whole life was on lost and it was the best thing that ever happened as we were lucky enough to rent some of the family estate land, and that left a small problem of where to live so we bought an old classroom from a school it cost us £1,000 and my husband fitted the entire huse out for less than a £1,000 and we had change for a £300 car we had no electric for over a year but we now live happily ever after apart from the my husbands cancer and my incruable diesase but hey ho we love it here we wake up to our horses every morning and with the birth of each new year we look foward to the patter of lttle hooves.
happy new year
 
angrovestud said:
I am lucky enough o be living my dream, we lost everything 5 years ago we has £2000 in the bank lost a buisness and our rented house and our leased car our whole life was on lost and it was the best thing that ever happened as we were lucky enough to rent some of the family estate land, and that left a small problem of where to live so we bought an old classroom from a school it cost us £1,000 and my husband fitted the entire huse out for less than a £1,000 and we had change for a £300 car we had no electric for over a year but we now live happily ever after apart from the my husbands cancer and my incruable diesase but hey ho we love it here we wake up to our horses every morning and with the birth of each new year we look foward to the patter of lttle hooves.
happy new year
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do you still live in the class room or have you now bought something else? is it easy enough to live in a caravan type thing or would you advise against it?
 
also i am wondering about things like electric , gas and water supplies? i know electric and gas may not be too hard to sort out but the water? best to get a tank or get connected to a supply pipe? also the costs of doing this?

i have seen some land (3 acres) which has 4 stales, split into 2 paddocks it is for rent or for sale. i was thinking of maybe buying 1 paddock and renting the other until i can afford to buy it an about a years time and getting my static (not bought yet) set up on the side that i own.

also would you need PP to do this with a static? anyone know ? xx
 
Yorkshire dumpling said:
how much cheaper is it to move abroard? and i know there would be the plus of land ect but what about the language barriers? and not knowing anybody ect ect? xx
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you can get a nice rural (done up!) house in france with several acres of land/stables and one ive seen with a sand menage for less than £180,000

in comparison to britain its good

im planning to learn french one day!, and go for a long holiday there, (been once already) after the degree to see if i fit in.!



edit - you need residential planning permission.... not easy to get ive been told. if it was - everyone would be doing it! :)
 
noodle_ said:
you can get a nice rural (done up!) house in france with several acres of land/stables and one ive seen with a sand menage for less than £180,000

in comparison to britain its good

im planning to learn french one day!, and go for a long holiday there, (been once already) after the degree to see if i fit in.!



edit - you need residential planning permission.... not easy to get ive been told. if it was - everyone would be doing it! :)
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that is cheap! i think the nearest to that price i have seen my way on was a 2 bed farm house needing ALOT of tlc which 3/4 of an acre for £240,000 and another with 2 acres and house nearly falling down for just above that. :eek:
i want to move to france !:) xx
 
yes I am living this dream. about 5 years ago we sold our 3 bed terreced bought 5 acres and a 2 bed terraced house. land is a 1/4 mile away from house. we'd never afford a small holding but doing it this way has made it do able for us. its great. it tool me 35 years to get here, so hang on to your dream and go for it,it is achievable.
 
yeah it is cheaper - but apparantly high taxes... not looked into this yet.

lincolnshire and scotland i find are cheaper... and wales.

i live in a really expensive area for farms etc....hence why i want to move soon lol :)
 
I also took the plunge 10 years ago and decided to buy some land.... started off as just wanting some land and a couple of stables... to having it all. Still havent got the house on it but we arent far off...

If you believe you can.... you can.
 
Yes! And we are soo close, in the process for buying a beautiful house with a huge garden and then stable block and 6 acres! I've always lived in cities and can't wait to live in the country! I have two young boys who I know will love all the space and outdoors.
 
We had a 4 acre field which was 2 miles or so from house. We put in an arena and reinforced the wooden building that was there. Also got water installed but that fairly easy as was right beside houses. After a few years we moved to the counrtyside to a house with yard which was being run as a stud with full facilities etc :). Absolutely love it, with 13 stables, 15 arces and 7 liveries can be hard work (especially the liveries) when have uni and working but worth it.
 
yes as I am getting older I just want a house in the country and a dog - however the other part of me still loves getting dolled up and hitting the town which if I moved out to the country and had my own horses I wouldnt be able to do - its a toughie but I have to make a choice at some point

my dream is waking up with my horses in fields behind my house. I have a lovely view now but its not my land and is in the middle of town so certainly no horses but very pretty all the same
 
I would love to have my own land. Currently renting a yard with 3 acres, two stables, tack room and barn - after having this to myself I never want to go onto a livery yard again! But often wish it was my own and nearer to our house. Like many people me and my OH work very hard and go without a lot of things to have the horses but we are both very happy. I think I would like the security of having my own land - knowing that you would never have to move the horses and that they have a secure home.
 
certainly the reassurance of having your own land, making own hay being able to turn out 24/7/365 if required is lovely, and when thetime comes burying them in field is lovely and when my time comes i am going next to them, but as farmers it means no holidays little income and har work but knowing my horses have a home forever is worth a lot,
 
Yorkshire dumpling said:
also would you need PP to do this with a static? anyone know ? xx
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You very much need permission to live on your land whether in a static or a touring caravan. It's not easy to get. Also the cost of connecting services can be huge. There's 8 acres for sale locally to us with PP to live on for half the year. No electric though and recent quote to connect was upwards of £100K.

As for dreaming of having my own land. We don't do holidays, fancy cars, new clothes, sky tv, etc and haven't done for years, instead we bought some land.
 
We have five acres a mile from home, with tatty stables and barns. The quote for electric was £30,000 and for a borehole £6,000. There would be no chance of living there, we are in a National Park!

Pros and cons of having your own land - the horses now all live out 24/7, but everytime they break something, we have to fix it! I also seem to spend a lot of time in the summer harrowing and topping, and of course, you have to buy a topper, and a harrow, and have something to tow it with. The water is collected from all the barn roofs, into holding tanks, but occasionally you run short and have to faff around with trailering water from home. It can also be lonely - I ride, but currently my OH doesn't have a horse (dogs are his real love!), and whilst I enjoy riding alone, you can loose enthusiasm when there is no one to chivy you along! Would I go back to livery - yes, but just with one horse, when the filly is backed to have the use of a school, and others to hack with, would be very good.
 
For years I dreamed about owning my own land and to look out of the windows watching my horses.

Six years ago we managed to buy this (picture taken from back of house) it has 3 acres but we rent another 4 acres ajoining my land. We have done alot of work to it, but it was worth it.

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And this was a workshop originally, we have extended both ends.

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And we also added an menage.

So i am now living the dream:D:D:D
 
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After wanting our own land for years, we finally moved to a house with a paddock last October! The paddock is only 1 and a half acres but it is plenty big enough to keep two little ponies in all year round and my boys (who are both good doers) are going to come and stay for a bit in the summer. :)
 
I have always hankered after a couple of acres but where I live grazing land is very expensive and also thin on the ground ( pun intended) Any bit coming on the market is immediately snapped up for silly prices.
 
I own my land,and stables with running water but no electric as the connection cost is prohibitive. The dream is to have the house with the land as it would make life so much easier. But the security of my own place with noone able to give me notice to quit, is invaluable.
It isn;t as cheap to maintain either as people imagine, as I need insurance, the muck heap needs removing (burning is banned), hedges need cutting( a massive ditch infront of some makes it impossible for me to do them all with my hedgecutter, you need a man and a tractor with flail cutter) and of course incidentals like water bill, general repairs and maintence all of which you don't worry about if you're renting.
But, I'd not sell it for anything- besides building on of course!;)
 
We did move to France 3 years ago and I only wish that we'd done it much sooner.

I was born, brought up and lived in the extortionately expensive and very horsey New Forest. Land there goes for stupid money, £30k an acre was not unheard of when we were looking to buy a few years ago. We'd go along to the auctions when parcels came up, we had decided our limit and would always sit and watch the land go for sometimes twice the estimate. We both love the New Forest and I absolutely hated leaving it behind, I still miss it terribly but we had to face upto the very upsetting fact that we would never have the sort of money to buy land there.

So, we took the plunge and moved to Britanny. We have a large 200yr old farmhouse, 12 stables, 2 barns, 50x50m manege and 60 acres of land. We are in a tiny hamlet of 6 inhabited houses in the middle of a beautiful national park. We love it, neither of us had spoken french since taking our 'O' level a long time ago but we have improved so much, we are very lucky though as we have the most fantastic neighbours who have been very patient with us and also incredibly supportive.

We are now mortgage free and living the life that we'd always dreamed of, we're much healthier and have very little stress. I have to pinch myself regularly........it is like a dream come true ;)

Good luck to anyone thinking about doing the same and if you want any info please feel free to PM me:)
 
yes I would like my own land and a house very near by could be rented house though. however I think I would miss my friends from the yard unless there were people near by to ride with. So I would not be lonely and because I am single I would like enough land to have some liveries for company and all for assistance in case of emergency.

I was lucky as a child that my parents had houses with land and stables so I could keep my ponies at home and had friends who lived locally who did the same and we rode out together. My parents bought a house with 4 bedrooms and 3 acres of land and six stables for £25,000 but that was over 30 years ago, how things have changed.

They sold that house about 15 years ago for £350,000 and moved to france where they bought another property with 6 bedrooms and 3 acres of land for £50,000! They sold that house for £300,000 and then bought a four bedroom house plus a three bedroom cottage for £100,000 with about an acre of land about 6 years ago.

France is still very good value for money if you don't mind living in the middle of no-where and don't desperately need a job. However the horsey social and competition scene is no-where near as good as it is over here so I would not want to live in france myself.

I think it is very difficult now to even buy a house let alone a property with land in this country especially if you are a single person.
 
Yorkshire dumpling said:
also i am wondering about things like electric , gas and water supplies? i know electric and gas may not be too hard to sort out but the water? best to get a tank or get connected to a supply pipe? also the costs of doing this?

i have seen some land (3 acres) which has 4 stales, split into 2 paddocks it is for rent or for sale. i was thinking of maybe buying 1 paddock and renting the other until i can afford to buy it an about a years time and getting my static (not bought yet) set up on the side that i own.

also would you need PP to do this with a static? anyone know ? xx
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sorry I have not got back to you , no I still live in the classroon we have planning you have to run a buisness and it has to be in profit we breed coloured racehorses and have one in training and stand a stallion and his son at stud.
our electric cost £500 to connect we did the digging the mains electric was about 100 eet awayso not to far the water was already on.
and we use big gas bottles it all works very well you can see photos of our house on
http://www.angrovestud.com/stud-history.html
 
Not today.

Today I am totally fed up with everything. Bored of the same old routine day in, day out, and I'm tired. I want to wake up, think "Nah" and go back to sleep again.

Another couple of years until the child graduates and then we're selling up, the lot, horses, house, land, everything (sounds familiar, I did all that a while ago) and going to live on our boat and follow the sun.

It isn't all sunshine and roses.
 
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