I guess it's always hard to introduce yourself "cold" in a new forum ...even on a faceless computer screen. But here to say Hi to everyone. My partner and I live in Central Queensland (in the bush) on 30 acres of land raise a few head of cattle and mostly self sufficient as in vegetables. We are both gay but we don't advertise or deny the fact. I personally don't see the need to advertise, if however the question arises or fell you need to say so then we are open about it. We don't have all the "mod con's" of a big city and in many ways you have to be self sufficient and a "jack of all trades" Been here now for & years and I would never go back to city life
I've always thought of leading a simpler life away from the cities, and in the bush as you, would be nice, but Canadian winters aren't so much fun. Welcome to EC.