Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse By Michael Korda

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With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country.At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County, New York, what Under the Tuscan Sun did for Tuscany. This witty memoir, replete with Korda's own line drawings, reads like a novel, as it chronicles the author's transformation from city slicker to full-time country gentleman, complete with tractors, horses, and a leaking roof.When he decides to take up residence in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Dutchess County, ninety miles north of New York City, Korda discovers what country life is really like:Owning pigs, more than owning horses, even more than owning the actual house, firmly anchored the Kordas as residents in the eyes of their Pleasant Valley neighbors. You may own your land, but without concertina barbed wire, or the 82nd Airborne on patrol, it's impossible to keep people off it! It's possible to line up major household repairs over a tuna melt sandwich. And everyone in the area is fully aware that Michael "don't know shit about septics."The locals are not particularly quick to accept these outsiders, and the couple's earliest interactions with their new neighbors provide constant entertainment, particularly when the Kordas discover that hunting season is a year-round event -- right on their own land! From their closest neighbors, mostly dairy farmers, to their unforgettable caretaker Harold Roe -- whose motto regarding the local flora is "Whack it all back! " -- the residents of Pleasant Valley eventually come to realize that the Kordas are more than mere weekenders.Sure to have readers in stitches, this is a book that has universal appeal for all who have ever dreamed of owning that perfect little place to escape to up in the country, or, more boldly, have done it.

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I liked the book. I really enjoyed reading it.I do think that some of the criticism noted here is expected; however, it depends on what side of the story you are reading from.I am reading from the side of Mr. Korda. We, too, have a second home in New Hampshire. We are called, among other things, 'flatlanders' and 'yuppies'. (We live outside of Boston)We have many quirky folks in our small town in NH. I have come to love and admire them all. If I wrote about them, you might get the sense that I, too, felt above them in some way. Not true. I am in awe of them. They are the salt of the earth. They know who they are and they follow their own paths. Not like here in suburbia, where everything seems homogenized. They are much more colorful, much more interesting, know a lot about a lot and have oodles of common sense. They take care of each other, know a lot about each other and reach out to one another. Much different from the affluent suburbs where no one really knows anybody, they just know what each other has so they can make sure that they can one-up them all the time. It is not very neighborly.In the country, they may do that to some degree, but not as much. Maybe someone might have a bigger tractor or a better snowmobile. But that is about it. They are simply kinder people. We would like to live there full-time, but jobs keep us nearer to the city. But we escape there as often as possible. It, too, is considered to be on the "wrong side of the tracks", but that is what makes it so special.I do believe that Mr. Korda feels the same way, too. It may not have come across that way, but I felt it as I read it. Sometimes we read more into things then are really there.

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