Is this a MAJOR turning point for AMERICAN LIBERTY?

@cletushatfield8817 says:

I was having a conversation maybe a year ago about the state of things. The other party was making the claim that by not being up to date or sharing the views/understandings that I have that his life was better than mine. Essentially ignorance is bliss. I pointed out that the moves I was making ensured that I win regardless of what happens. The opposite often does not hold true (if you’re not deliberate, you are at risk). It’s the difference between complaining about the world and just manifesting one’s dreams.

@joellaurin9007 says:

There is so many people who can’t diagnose simple issues either in their house or car. Let alone even fix it.
Most people like this see it as absolutely normal to call a guy to come fix it.

Sad. Even more sad for their kids who learn to call a guy to fix their broken things issues.

@4444Rosemary says:

I escaped from one urban area to a smaller city 20 years ago, but then that smaller city accelerated to urbanism the last 5 years and I feel like I barely escaped with my life (uber liberal homeless west coast hell). I did what you mentioned, moved to a very small, remote town far from any cities, on the northern plains. I love it here and you are right, every place is hiring.

@HectorRoldan says:

Almost got to live in Kelowna 9 years ago and had it not been for a border agent being mean and sending be back, I would have been working on my dual citizenship and doing what I do there which is partially what you do.. Am trying to at least get back to Washington State after spending the last year in Florida and hoping I get to rebuild in Washington and make it back up to all the friends in Canada. Some of the best times were the trips to Canada~

@timyates807 says:

ya Curtis i like your take on many things , I often look at things like you do in life and i try to follow things the best i can media wise , but i give it alot less attention and focus on the tasks at hand at being as setup as possible now . being a construction/landscaping self employed labourer for about the last 30yrs off and on ive found that as much as im all over the place working . At night with lights often i work on greenhouses and gardens and building my own place as quickly as i can now lol. (much smaller than yours) and i love mountains but the best ive managed is im lookin at one here in Quebec , im gratful for that .Your place would be perfection in my book. so congrats man. i made a choice when the pandemic started to give up the place i had and move back to where my parents were . i had to stay with my mom for 3 yrs before i could start building on the spare lot she had . Anyways my point is i had to be the 45 yr old living with his mom joke in order to accomplish the level of prepping i wanted to get done !!. So in my experience most of the time your gonna have to do things you wouldnt want to do otherwise, being in the time constraints we all have to work with trying to prepare now. Turns out if i hadnt been here my parents would have fallen for the jab because of the people around them , so theres gonna be little perks along the way if you just decide you have to get something done thats overwhelming to you until you chip away at it a little and find your groove .Anyways just worry about you and try to get it done to the best you can , thats all you can do . thanks again Curtis and keep up the great work. take care

@richardwigeland2074 says:

Good job Curtis!😊

@va3svd says:

Nice segue onto the topic of small towns.

I have moved from a city of around Kelowna’s size in SW Ontario to the country just outside of urban Ottawa. Best decision I ever made, I am in the process of building up a homestead and have always valued your book and online content. I deliberately do all of my business in the small towns outside of Ottawa quite deliberately to help transfer economic activity from the great sucking maw of the big city to the smaller towns.

Here in Ontario, policy since the mid-2000s has favoured larger cities. With the changes of Ontario Hydro to more expensive solar and wind power which caused massive increases in energy costs, and increased cost of labour due to taxes and regulations, we lost a lot of manufacturing. It used to be that in most small towns, if you were Joe Bagofdonuts from Anytown, and you graduated high school and attended neither trade school nor university, there was a job at the local factory for you. Those factories are now gone, *deliberately* chased from our shores because of climate change and social justice, naturally.

Coupled with this has been a significant expansion in the civil service sector. The government became a competitor for labour with private industry. Especially during the McGuinty/Wynne era, those jobs were overwhelmingly placed in big cities, mostly the GTA.

For the little remaining industry and trades, pay rates in small towns are now much lower than in the cities. One of my friends drives over an hour from the town of Lanark to Kanata. He’s an automotive technician. He says the difference in taking the same job in his town or Perth (a town of about 7000 about 10 minutes away) is $10/hr, and possibly as much as 3 hours less per day.

I agree wholeheartedly that small town living is greatly preferable to city living. But there does need to be caution that some small towns have few work opportunities sufficient to cover the cost of living for people renting or with a significant mortgage in some areas of the country. When planning your homestead or urban flight, factor in the potential cost of commuting or downgrading your employment.

@bobbybelcher6800 says:

I like them guys and their values, they show a lot of courage. This gives us hope for freedom !