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We live on a golf course with has white tail and axis, deer along with blackbuck antelope. Only the truly poisonous plants have been completely deer resistant. For our yard that means oleander and caster bean. We’re in the second month with no rain so the deer are getting increasingly hungry. Other plants that are deer resistant have gotten trampled by the deer or they rub their antlers on the bark. Rosemary is good for some reason but subject to trampling. The deer took bites out of the nandina this week and dropped the bitten parts without eating them. Texas Purple Sage seems to be very resistant. Ornamental grasses (fountain type) seem to be doing fine. Crepe myrtle get rubbed but not eaten. Texas mountain laurel is highly deer resistant.We keep our deer candy (roses, spinless prickly pear, potato vine, zinnias, etc.) inside a fence. By our HOA rules the fences can be no higher than 4 feet, but I have been getting away with an extension above 4 feet. I mounted some PVC pipe on the corners of the fence and ran three strands of 30-pound test fishing line above the wood fence. The highest fishing line is about 7 feet. The fishing line seems to work to discourage them from jumping the fence. The line is invisible unless the sun is in just the right spot. In retrospect I could have used 5-pound line.

There are numerous benefits, but they aren’t for everyone.Hunting and fishing - I live on top of a mountain, so I have to drive 4.2 miles just to get down to the main road. Once there, I can park at one local trout stream, or walk 1/4 mile to the other one. Black bear, deer, turkey, rabbits and squirrel can be had right out my front door. I do have to drive a couple of hours for wild pigs, though. I know a lot of people don’t like hunters, but getting your meat that way is a lot more honest than buying it in a shrink-wrapped package where you can pretend that the animal didn’t suffer for your meal. You’ve never tasted anything as good as the venison shoulder roast I fixed 2 weekends ago. mmmmmm!Crime - We just don’t have it like you do in urban areas. I don’t lock my house when I leave. My vehicles stay unlocked, and my garage is open most of the time in case a neighbor needs to borrow something. How many people in urban areas have bars on their windows to keep thieves out? How many people in urban areas are afraid of gang shootings or some other nut job shooting people? It doesn’t happen here.Guns - My practice range is behind the house. I shoot into the hillside so I don’t have to worry about anything. Now that the California hippies moved out (they lived about a mile away), EVERYONE here is armed with what the anti-gun nuts would call “an arsenal of dangerous weapons”. Surprisingly, nothing from anyone’s “arsenal” has ever hurt a human. Well, that’s not totally true. I was holding my 1911 a little too high up one time and it bit the web of my thumb when I fired.Peace and quiet - I’m writing this on my deck with a cup of coffee at hand. It’s not quite time to feed the horses, so I’m relaxing, watching the sunrise, and enjoying the cool morning (62 degrees and a light breeze). The only noises I’ve heard are birds and my coon dog chasing something, baying occasionally in spite of the anti-bark collar she has on.Animals - I have horses on my property. Living in the city, you need serious money to keep a couple of horses. Here, we get to ride just by walking out and calling them over. My dogs aren’t on a leash, nor are they in a fence. The wander freely, as dogs were meant to do.Fresh food - I mean it’s really fresh. My neighbor and I have 13 mature apple trees between us. Each one is a different variety. You’ve probably only heard of 3 of them. The rest are heirloom varieties which put the 3 grocery store varieties to shame. I have a garden which grows a lot. What I don’t grow, I’ll buy from a nearby “market farmer”, meaning he sells everything he grows at a roadside stand. You don’t get any fresher than “picked it and cooked it”. Grocery store food doesn’t taste like that. I buy grass-fed, organic Black Angus beef right from the farm where they live, and which I pass on the days I can’t work from home and have to drive in.The water - OMG, the water from my well is the kind of stuff people pay money for. When you think “tastes like a mountain spring”, that’s what comes out of my well. My neighbor actually does get his from a spring, piped directly to his house. it tastes exactly the same. When water tastes that good, you don’t drink sodas. When I go into town, I take bottles of my water with me. I can’t stand what comes out of faucets there. ugh!The air - It always smells amazing, never polluted. Living on top of a mountain, there’s usually a breeze (and sometimes hurricane force winds), carrying the smells of the surrounding forest. Here’s where I live. Check out the amount of forest around me. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Shumont+Mountain/@35.4644511,-82.2426304,7730m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8859e2e993cd7f09:0x48d9fbba5947cfa2!8m2!3d35.4678974!4d-82.2428908The neighbors - What great people! We help each other, look out for each other, and know that we can depend on each other. It’s like that when the only way to get to a hospital quickly is by air, LEOs will probably take 30 minutes to an hour to get to you (heck, it takes 10 minutes just to get up here from the main road!), and any kind of professional help you might need has to be scheduled in advance, because it’s such a big deal to get out here from the “city”.No HOA - In addition to this place, I also own a log cabin in a gated community (I’m trying to sell it…want to buy?). It has an HOA, and they used to be fairly laid back. Now, they’re a pain in the patoot. The place I live in now used to be owned by a lesbian couple. For 35 years, locals gave directions by referring to “The Pink House” because of its shocking color. Sadly, the surviving woman repainted it in “normal” colors when she got ready to sell it. I’m going to restore it to its former glory, and there is no busybody to tell me I can’t.I could go on, but I think you get the idea.