Your right about new zealand alright - never has that more apparent than in recent events - this went semi viral in new zealand =- a lot of people sending it around - it is a negative view of the prime minster written by someone who met and talked with her in 2008 for two hours - the cliff notes is the person thinks she is evil - and explains why - link here https://thebfd.co.nz/2021/12/16/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ - most of the shares are on telegram, as seen in the article, none for facebook or twitter - likely because of whatever reason censorship etc., whatever. I grew up in small town new zealand -and although there were stores, a lot of people just traded like you are talking about with each other - my father used to go and buy a lamb for home kill up the road, and we used to sell fruit from our trees etc., had our own very large garden - we only went to town for things like flour and stuff like that really - you get to know your neighbors and who has what - the local bakery, used to come to our house each week and exchange a large bag of lemons when they were in season for a bunch of bread etc., things like that -
The town I grew up in is very different today. Plus back then you could buy a house in a few years - now it would take you thirty years to buy one. There is another bubble waiting to blow up, the housing market once again.
Its great you are working to change things in your local community like that! My idea with my house truck, was always to be self sufficient - I am just going to tow it to some land somewhere one day I think and start there. Thanks!
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