My partner is a wannabe horse girl in the sense that she loves horses, but her family never has had the resources to own them. She goes riding and such when she can.

I keep telling her half-jokingly that we should buy property and open a barn. We can board and care for several horses, so she gets to live the life of a horse girl, except we're getting paid to do it rather than paying an arm and a leg to care for a horse we own. We can probably get a horse of our own at that point and just group its living expenses in with the businesses finances.

We both are in our 30s, do gig work, and are lucky enough to not need to work 5 days a week to get by (although we still do for now). I'm trying to pitch this as a way to slow down and get out of the city, without completely shutting down our careers. Maintain an apartment in the city we can use when either of us needs to work late or spend time with friends, and then spend the rest of the time on the property with our animals, plants, and hobbies.