Hello, Free State People!
My name is Michelle and I am an American married to Erlend, my Scottish farmer husband. We live on an organic sheep-and-cattle farm over here in Scotland with our 3 kids and an assortment of barn cats and one whippet named Millie.
We are going to sell our farm next fall and move to America so that we can get away from the implosion taking place politically and economically on this side of The Pond.
For several weeks now we have been researching heavily about "which state in America is free??" and to our surprise New Hampshire consistently popped up at the top of the best lists! That was totally unexpected... I grew up in Massachusetts and I figured there would be no Liberty hardly anywhere in the North East.
And the funny thing is, my dad lives in southern NH. I have spent a lot of time in NH but never really realized that the citizens of New Hampshire really do live by their State motto! Which is a motto that I just
love ~ and that shocks and delights my raised-and-steeped-in-Socialism husband!
We are going to be joined by my aged Aunt and Uncle. They are not very keen on living up north but hopefully they will be convinced that NH is the best place for us to go. They are very experienced at living off of the fat of the land, good rugged Liberty-loving Americans! I spent a lot of time with them as a kid, I just love them to bits! Sadly they lost their 4 children in a house fire when I was 4 years old... but now they will be able to live out their golden years with us and our kids

We hope to purchase a decent sized house with acreage so that we can create an organic family self-sufficient farming homestead. At the moment we live on a big commercial farm which might sound romantic but is in fact overly mechanized and soul-draining. Not to mention a money devouring
beast that costs far far more to run then it produces in profit!
Our "dream home" would actually be something rather rustic. We all desire wood stoves and this and that, nothing too modern, nothing smack in the middle of a town. We don't want a HUGE house, but something big enough to be healthy but modest sized enough to be easy to heat and maintain. I hope we can find something like this in NH! And we'll have a garden, some chickens, pigs, goats, sheep, cows. Not hundreds of head of livestock, but enough for self-sufficiency and enough to sell a bit of extra.
Myself and my Aunt and Uncle each have modest incomes so this is not a total pipe dream! We won't be rich, we'll be living off of Red Cross shops and Value Village but after 4 years in the Navy, 6 years living up in Alaska, and nearly a decade on an island in northern Scotland I am not exactly a lightweight hehehehe!
Have a lovely day! I will be trawling all over the forums so I can read and learn all about the FSP etc, etc. Pardon me if I don't speak up much at first, I don't really like blabbing if I don't know what I'm on about. Feel very free to offer your insights, guidance, advice etc. We plan to move for spring/early summer 2015 so we have time to research and be careful and do this correctly and intelligently! We will only be able to make an amazing move like this ONCE and then we'll be poor and living off the land haha!
~Michelle