I don’t want to DIE in New York State

I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in New York State if I can all avoid it. New York, the confined living operation, is a good place to make money if you don’t mind the wokeism and the extreme demands of greenies and wilderness advocates.

Truth is I worry a lot about my time to escape. I told myself after college that my job was a temporary one just to save up some money for moving on to the next stage of life, buying land in some rural area far away from the cities. But that was years ago now, and each year I’ve made a bit more money, saved more, and realize I need more to fully be able to build a life away from city, especially with limited opportunities for good work away from cities. As the money and work gets better as my career advances, it gets harder and harder to walk away.

Now with my parents getting elderly, I see another threat to my future. Their homestead with the much to large and modern house. What happens if I ended up inheriting it? And then all their equipment plus other equipment I end up buying? Livestock I end up buying? How to a wind that all down when I’m 55 years old and can put in for early retirement to persue my dreams?

Plus another concern I have is just time. The less then 13 years  between now and age 55 will come and go quickly, but so will the 15 years between age 55 and 70, the later year which I tentatively plan to make the final year of my life. It just seems such a short time period when you look at it that way. But there is no guarantees between 70 even if I don’t blow out my brains at that age.

Maybe it’s just that I need some nights in wilderness, but I want something more then a one night stand in life. Even summer vacation when I spend 9 nights in National Forest, it’s just a vacation. I set things up and before long it’s taken down and packed away. And then there was those videos of Homesteady moving to Alaska and so many other off-gridder channels.

Truth is I can’t get back time, but my investments are growing, though slower now that the economy is heading towards the crapper in the short-term. Granted lower stock prices are good for future growth, especially as I continue to buy the dip, but I’m also watching the time fall of the clock one meaningless year after another.