Author Topic: Trads moving into a small town homestead (CanadaUS) (Read 2169 times)

Thursday · « **on:** May 09, 2012, 07:47:53 PM »

There are a number of small towns that would be suitable for a trad family where I'm from in SW Ontario, one in partiucular has a 5 bedroom house for $80,000. This town is really tiny and about 30 minutes from the city.

On the other side of the border in Michigan they are practically giving houses and land away. Michigan has all kinds of traditional parishes and CMRI runs an elementary school down in Detroit. I'd like to live rural Michigan but I'm Canadian so it would be kinda hard.

Just thought I'd start this thread and see if anyone else was thinking along these lines, I'm probably a year away from a move. I did think it would be a good idea for some trads to relocate to the same area, help each other out a bit with alternative building projects etc.

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #1 on:** May 10, 2012, 11:51:14 AM »

Quote from: Thursday

CMRI runs an elementary school down in Detroit.

:detective:

Maybe I should consider moving there.

God bless the CMRI!

Malleus 01 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 10, 2012, 02:52:27 PM »

Quote from: Thursday

There are a number of small towns that would be suitable for a trad family where I'm from in SW Ontario, one in partiucular has a 5 bedroom house for $80,000. This town is really tiny and about 30 minutes from the city.

On the other side of the border in Michigan they are practically giving houses and land away. Michigan has all kinds of traditional parishes and CMRI runs an elementary school down in Detroit. I'd like to live rural Michigan but I'm Canadian so it would be kinda hard.

Just thought I'd start this thread and see if anyone else was thinking along these lines, I'm probably a year away from a move. I did think it would be a good idea for some trads to relocate to the same area, help each other out a bit with alternative building projects etc.

I moved to Rural Iowa near Omaha Nebraska - The Unemployment rate is below 5 percent in both Nebraska and Iowa - CMRI operates an Elementary School and a Seminary in Omaha as well as the fact that Bishop Pivarunas is headquartered here along with Father Gregory and Father Gronenthal. You can attend Daily Mass if you choose to. Real Estate ranges from inexpensive in the small rural towns surrounding Omaha to more expensive the closer you get to Omaha.

Matthew · « **Reply #3 on:** May 10, 2012, 04:34:54 PM »

Quote from: Capt McQuigg

Quote from: Thursday
CMRI runs an elementary school down in Detroit.

:detective:

Maybe I should consider moving there.

God bless the CMRI!

Detroit has a very high crime rate, that is why you can get houses for $1,000 in some neighborhoods.

There are abandoned homes all over the place.

In fact, the city government is seriously considering "shrinking" the city -- literally taking developed land and turning it back into parks/farmland so the city can withdraw and regroup.

Also, they are considering creating "no man's land" areas, where police won't enter. Sounds like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel, doesn't it?

Last, but not least, here are some interesting facts about the population of Detroit:

Quote from: Wikipedia

The census reported that the city had 82.7% African American (82.1% non- Hispanic black), 10.6% White (7.8% non-Hispanic white), 1.1% Asian, 0.4% Native American, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 3.0% other races

You read that right -- white folk are the "minorities" there! Call me crazy, but no thanks.

John Grace · « **Reply #4 on:** May 10, 2012, 06:21:24 PM »

A very positive and necessary thread. I'm all for Trads moving away from cities. What I would have in mind for places like Detroit would be the soup kitchens and a Trad run Catholic Volunteer Movement. There is a very successful Catholic Volunteer Movement in England.

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developed land and turning it back into parks/farmland so the city can withdraw and regroup.

Again I see a role we can play here also.

Is it possible for a group of Traditional Catholics to buy these lands and set up co-operatives and a rural community?

Thursday · « **Reply #5 on:** May 10, 2012, 07:54:23 PM »

There is a small community in Saskatchewan in a town called Welwyn, I think this would be a great place to live but it is very far from the rest of the world. However it could serve as a model for other trad communities that would find it hard to move there. Some pics
http://www.sspx.ca/Saskatchewan/OurLadyOfFatimaChapel.htm

The CMRI school is not right in Detroit, it's in a place called Wayne a little bit south of Detroit and home of Wayne State University. Here is the website for the school http://www.stjosephschurch.net/school/
and the parish
http://www.stjosephschurch.net/

My brother went to university in downtown Detroit 12 years ago and I used to go down for the weekend sometimes, it was pretty bad. However a friend of mine said that he goes to Detroit at least once a month for different events and told me they have done a lot to improve things. That said I don't think anyone would want to move there but the surrounding areas might be an option, Michigan was a Catholic stronghold and home to the radio priest Father Coughlin.

I agree with your idea John, I think michigan because of the cheap land/houses would be a great place to start a back to the land movement.

Thursday · « **Reply #6 on:** May 10, 2012, 08:22:51 PM »

Quote from: Malleus 01

I moved to Rural Iowa near Omaha Nebraska - The Unemployment rate is below 5 percent in both Nebraska and Iowa - CMRI operates an Elementary School and a Seminary in Omaha as well as the fact that Bishop Pivarunas is headquartered here along with Father Gregory and Father Gronenthal. You can attend Daily Mass if you choose to. Real Estate ranges from inexpensive in the small rural towns surrounding Omaha to more expensive the closer you get to Omaha.

That sounds great, I met Father Gronenthal when he was up in Canada a few years ago. Where you moving anyway or did you purposefully try to find a Catholic environment? Did anyone try to discourage you?

Croix de Fer · « **Reply #7 on:** May 10, 2012, 11:59:24 PM »

Detroit is a concrete hell and war zone. The probability of anybody, especially whitey, being a victim of casualty is as high as anybody traveling through Beirut in the '70s and '80s.

Malleus 01 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 11, 2012, 04:35:35 PM »

Quote from: Thursday

Quote from: Malleus 01

I moved to Rural Iowa near Omaha Nebraska - The Unemployment rate is below 5 percent in both Nebraska and Iowa - CMRI operates an Elementary School and a Seminary in Omaha as well as the fact that Bishop Pivarunas is headquartered here along with Father Gregory and Father Gronenthal. You can attend Daily Mass if you choose to. Real Estate ranges from inexpensive in the small rural towns surrounding Omaha to more expensive the closer you get to Omaha.

That sounds great, I met Father Gronenthal when he was up in Canada a few years ago. Where you moving anyway or did you purposefully try to find a Catholic environment? Did anyone try to discourage you?

I lived in a declining neighborhood in California - I didnt like the mentality of the people living around me and I wanted my Children to benefit from a Catholic education. To this day people think I was crazy for moving Iowa / Nebraska - but my kids benefitted as did we spiritually. We were able to do the 5 first Saturdays and the 9 First Friday devotions - We benefit from hearing the word of GOD preached every Sunday - My Son was able to go to Rome with the School - We only wish we had made the decision a few years earlier.

Diego · « **Reply #9 on:** May 11, 2012, 05:28:39 PM »

I guess I must be the only practicing Catholic who is a cold weather weenie. I lived in Omaha for 2 years and couldn't hack the winters.

I would like to leave the city for a rural/suburban locale with valid sacraments, good priest(s), fertile soil, and water. Convivial gun and medical laws would also be a plus.