Why we moved to Texas

We had a good life in Arkansas.  Jon was retired from the Air Force and had a decent job at Little Rock AFB.  I was a stay at home grams homeschooling the kids.  We lived in a 2800 sq ft house on 1.33 acres.  It had 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and an in-ground pool in the back yard.  We had room for the goats, chickens and a really nice garden.  We had some great friends and were doing really well.  Then we started really looking at the world around us.  Seems like things are only getting worse with rumors of wars, economic issues, droughts and other occurring natural disasters happening around the world.  We asked ourselves do we really want to be this close to a major city like Little Rock if something bad happened? Do we want to be deep in debt to live in a big house with a pool? The answer was NO!!  We lived out of the city but still near enough to worry if things went bad.  So we decided to move to Texas.  We started looking for some land.....very rural land.  We found our little piece of heaven on the internet.  Jon drove over here to look around and we decide Texas is the place to be so we loaded up the truck and moved to Marrietta, well it was sort of like that.  It took us about 6 months to sell our house but God provided a buyer for us.  It was stressful getting a double-wide back this far off the road but God provided capable movers who knew exactly what to do. 
Now we are what you might call preppers.  I don't particularly like that name but that is what others would probably say about us.  We live way off the beaten path.  We cannot see any of our neighbors from our porch and can only hear them if they play their music REALLY loud.  I don't hear traffic noise or trains, about the only things we hear around here is the crow of a rooster, the quack of a duck, the moo of a cow, the bleat of a goat, the occasional howl of a coyote, or the wind rustling the leaves in the trees and  I LOVE IT!!     We had to give up some conveniences to live here the biggest being shopping.  The closest store to us is 5 miles away but it is just a little convenience store.  They sell soda, assorted fried food, fishing worms and the such.  You know the little mom and pop place run by Cambodians, its what you see in Texas every day. Our closest big store is stupid Walmart and that is 20 miles away and if we want to do some serious shopping that is a 35 mile drive to the big city of Texarkana.  Since I do a lot of shopping online now I have gotten to know the Fed-Ex lady very well and the UPS guys are super cool.  I tell people all the time if I could order bananas from Amazon I probably would never leave my house.  Anyway that is the story and I am sticking to it....for now anyway.