Bent police need to really pass re-education practical training to stay on the job or take bushel vadket of lashes and a pink slip
I haven't lived in a rural/semi-rural area since I turned 13. We had running water and can old well and a septic system.
Does the county agent test your well and run mineral composition checks on your soil?
State extension services are actually a cooperative with UGA. I'll use them if I need a basic test (still have to pay but it's usually under $20) but if I want a more complete analysis I send off to a testing company.
I think a lot of them are hooked up with their state's Ag college somehow. I know i was told something about it in school, but I wasn't interested enough to really study more than enough to pass whatever test it was on.
I live in a county that doesn't have a good reputation for it's police, and have had a detective (from the county seat police department) threaten my wife with bullshit charges over something that shouldn't have even involved police. So would I call the police? Honestly probably not.
I live in an unincorporated part of our county so we don't have water and sewer services.
Our EMS is contracted to a private company.
If we could afford to send our kids to a private school we would. Home school isn't something either of us want to do because it would cut our income. That was covered in my statement about a lack of better alternatives.
Now for the wildfires question. I live in one of the top timber producing states in the US, and we rarely have huge wildfires like happens in California. Do you know why? Because the landowners maintain their forests with controlled burns every few years. The Southeastern US learned from the Native American tribes about forest management. Too bad the idiots in California won't listen to sound research.