Anyone made the treechange move?

[Cuppa]

We all get just one life. No good thinking ‘wish I’d done it’ when laying on your deathbed.

You don’t need as much money as you think you do ............. unless you want to live city style out in the sticks.

You may need to burn bridges to follow the dream - we could never afford to move back into the city, but we’d never want to. You gotta know what you want.


We made our ‘Tree Change’ over 20 years ago. Both of us worked & then worked harder in the evenings & weekends. Everything was expensive, mainly because we were time poor.

Then I gave up employment, we lived on a single wage & I had the time to do stuff (which I loved) which saved us heaps.

Even though our income was halved our standard of living did not drop, we ate just as well, we still did the things we liked, we just didn’t need to spend as much money to do so. . We grew our own veg, raised our own meat, collected our own eggs, firewood & water.

We lived 30kms from the nearest town & loved the lifestyle. It’s not for everyone but it was great for us. No neighbours in view. Total freedom to live & be as we wanted. Even afforded a few overseas trips - but we were largely happy to stay home. Reality is that property & stock are quite a responsibility & a tie, but if you love it it’s not hard most of the time. When it’ is hard it can be bloody hard, but you get through it. (e.g.. delivering dead calf late at night , by torchlight, in a howling gale). All forgotten when the freezer’s full, the wood’s collected & the fire warm & toasty. Always something to do.

I miss it, but we’ve now had a town change (or at least as close as we are ever likely to get to living in town). We are now ‘blockies’ on a mere 2.5 acres, 10 minutes from town, can see the neighbours house across the paddock & even get a daily postal delivery & a weekly rubbish collection. Heck, we even have a bitumen road to our front gate!