03-20-2013, 09:03 AM
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Yurt Forum Youngin
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Souris Prince Edward Island
Posts: 22
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Re: Anyone living in a yurt full time with children?
We have been living full time mainly in a 30 foot Pacific Yurt (we have an additional 14 foot one as well thats attached). We built them a couple of winters ago. The Yurts themselves are excellent and fair in price I felt... it was all the 'other' costs that really got to us and have been very hard to cope with. Overall I love the whole set up.
We have 2 kids that have lived there since they were little... I think we started out living there when they were 5 and 7... ish? Our oldest is quite disabled with difficulty moving around/walking and cannot speak. Our youngest is a very hyperactive imaginative boy. We were in the yurt full time for at least... 2 years. We have harsh winters here and pretty major storms for most of the year and the yurts and kids have braved it all like pro's. Even when the wind picks up to 70-100 + km/h gusts through the night they don't even flinch and they sleep in the loft with the tarp not even 2 feet over their beds
The kids love it... truly. They are pretty well adjusted ppl to start out with anyway.
It is with regret that we have to leave our beautiful home and the land its on and move back to the other side of the country... We need to go, but it is bitter sweet... I love my yurt... it is the most innovative beautiful cozy space ive ever known and it just inspires and hosts so much creativity... thats a profoundly good thing for kids. it teaches them that less is really more, how to live differently... without sounding cliche to 'think outside the box'. Its benefits have been profound for me, the kids... the husband. I wish I could just pick it up and move it with us (but even tho they are mobile... ours is very much a permanent structure with an easy 100 k in the land alone utility-wise).
I hope you find what works for you and financial freedom through whatever you decide.
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