Hell naw, that’s where they’ll find me dead. Horror movies 101.
This sound fun for like 3 months. Like I’ll get some random medical issue and then have to go to the hospital. Like what if I sprain my ankle, what if the cabin got termite infestation and I need to repair it. At some point I’m gonna need civilization
That’s why the cabin is propped up on the rocks
I see houses propped up by concrete pillars so it’s just a frontier way of leveling off the house
Lack of ground contact also deters termites.
You don’t need to go to the hospital for a sprained ankle
Yeah I was trying to think of some minor injury that woul require attention. Like your chopping food and you cut yourself or you step on a rusty nail. I could go up in severity but the point is you will need medical attention or access to medicine
I want to go back to simpler times
Not me. The rural part? Yes. But I can smell and feel the wet. In this type of place, you’ll be in a war of attrition against insects of all types. And mold and wood rot. Then there’s the wild animals or scary horror film neighbors.
Ticks.
the ticks have gotten so bad in recent years, it’s actually a main reason I wouldn’t want to move farther out from the city.
my dogs are too low to the ground and too fluffy to find the many ticks on them after being outside. hell they get ticks even inside city limits (in the green spaces) here.
we stopped taking a wonderful forest route at my parents’ with them because it’s just not worth finding ticks on them over the next 48 hours and having them crawl out onto you at night
That’s why you get chickens or turkeys. They eat them.
Between lone star tick disease and deer prions I am not really all that interested in being in the woods proper anymore.
I lived here for several years. Every time you walk outside, an insect will find an orifice.
Set a fire in the fireplace, it sorts out the humid inside aor
Genuinely laughed! Thank you (also this is me)!
Yah. But also with heat, running water, AC, a convenience shop nearby and some friends. So basically what I already have minus a job.
I’m sure heat is covered since it has a fireplace. The others are luxuries I can do without
You don’t need A/C.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
All depends on the climate your in, and the insulation of your house. You can build houses which don’t need AC even in hot places by going underground or making earth ships. Yet with traditional construction and insulation in many places AC is almost required. Pretty efficient anyway, just a heat pump.
You don’t need A/C.
Eh, it’s REALLY nice to have right now with daytime highs in the upper 90s. It’s even nicer when it’s both hot and humid.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
So do I.
Yeah, no.
While you might not need it, everyone has a different temperature tolerance and for some people, it is absolutely a requirement.
I live in the U.K., no one has AC. Some people will say you don’t need AC. If it was free and easy, do you know what I’ve had this summer?
I also live in the UK. The last few years I’ve been tempted to buy a portable AC. Just as I go to spend £300, the weather turns and I decide to spend money on other stuff (like food)
We had that heat wave just after Easter this year, much earlier than I remember, that was the final straw. Bought one on marketplace for £180.
Every night going to bed the sheets are crisp and cool. I sleep like a baby.
The biggest downside? Damn those things are pricey to run
This is something I’ll have to consider. There’s one in the office at work that’s like 400 quid. It’s almost a weeks wages.
You don’t need AC now.
I live in Vancouver Canada, and up until like 2005 none of the lower density developments (townhouses and low rise apartments) had air conditioning because no one really needed it. Our townhouse for example even has windows that aren’t compatible with window air conditioners and no one minded until fairly recently. All that’s changed really quickly and now everyone is scrambling for air conditioning with heat waves getting worse every year.
Yeah and I dont need a roof either, but it sure is fuckin nice
If it gets hot you just cool down in the lake. If it gets cold, sauna.
And plumbing, electricity, water.
The older I get, the more I realize Ethoslab has it all figured out
Who needs expensive new stuff when an old tissue box works just fine for over a decade?
I find that most people that romanticize this sort of middle of nowhere living tend to only consider it from the point of view of that time period in their lives when they are healthy and able to go years without needing convenient access to medical services.
Old people tend to want to live in the middle of nowhere the most. They just also expect the elder healthcare to magically be just as good.
Absolutely not. I’d rather be able to walk to a variety social spaces and not worry about being eaten alive by bugs when outside.
Me, living in Wyoming with gigabit fibre:
Yes it’s a bit of a flex but I sold everything I owned in order to own a humble old house here and I am proud of it. Cow poop walls? No regrets.
Everyone that only socializes online and is basically an asocial hermit, sure. Don’t be fooled by the echo-chambers we reside in!
I mean I imagined living there with my wife
If we had our friends and family nearby, it would be ideal for us as well! But without them, idk.
Sometimes I wish I could understand why people want this. I grew up in the middle of nowhere and it’s taught me that some REALLY fucked up things can be visited upon you by the 2 or 3 neighbors you have living 20 miles away and not even guns can save you.
Well there’s two different things that people who relate to this picture may want: either the nature or the solitude (sometimes both); for the second, part of the fantasy is that they would never have to deal with anyone.
In reality what people want may be completely different, but the picture passes the message better.
either the nature or the solitude
i think this is why i don’t get it: growing up in the middle of nowhere taught me that nature can fuck you over in an instant multiple times and living in suburbia gave me a cold & painful dose of reality when it comes to solitude.
i suppose it looks nice if you’ve never experienced enough of the dark sides of nature and solitude.
I used to live alone in the forest like that and I loved it. I can’t wait to move back.
Yeah, nature can fuck me over but as long as I don’t have to deal with anyone I’ll manage.
nature isn’t as bad as people; you can atleast try to prepare of it.
out in the middle of nowhere, people can and do make sure that you can’t prepare for them.
Sad part living next to ppl in city with hoa feels like a prison.
The awful air Mugging Packages stolen Noise Never see a tree or stars Can’t do jack all without gossiping hens Etc
Humans need a good balance but many just want to see if grass is greener on other side.
Humans need a good balance but many just want to see if grass is greener on other side.
this makes the most sense to me because that’s what i did. life had taught me that being queer, autistic and brown is boring AF in urban enough environments; but it REALLY makes those hens gossip in the country side and the ppl forcing you to conform because they refuse accept your true expression of yourself is a prison of its own. to make matters worse: that 1 factory; 4 MASSIVE beef & pork farms; and plantation that employ 80% of the population will fuck up your air & water worse than the city thanks to a friendly local government that gives them passes. having to drive 5 hours to the nearest water source, to spend another 2 hours filling up, and then another 5 hour drive back every month is galling when there’s a natural stream nearby that the local gov’t makes illegal to take from.
i wanted to see if the grass was greener in the core of several cities and found that, yes, very much so for someone like me.
You write about (a quite shitty) reality, but the picture is somewhat of a dream, everyone is projecting their own wishes all around it. Running water, electricity, in the vicinity of supermarket/restaurant/pharmacy… it’s all there, in magic country land.
I am also a city person. I love disconnecting for holidays, but then I am back with similar minded friends, in a city with all city commodities and I don’t think I would switch.
I fucking hate people. I’d be tempted to set traps on my property so I never have to see people. Come at me neighbors
you’ll get one or 2, but the rest will just cut off your supply to water/food and wait until you come out from dehydration or starvation and then get what they want from you.
Yeah this is why I’d like to be close enough to civilization to have city water.
But if you actually threaten my family’s right to stay alive, you just lost yours. I have no qualms about being a psychopath if I have to.
Just leave me the fuck alone.
it’s easier to shut off your water if doesn’t come from a natural source and your chances are almost negligible against the majority; much less against an imported army.
You mean… Wendigos?
Chupathingys are real
only if you’re lucky.
humans are much worse.
I feel like there’s a story here
it’s the same story as it is every where capitalism is in charge: rich people want to get richer by taking land that isn’t theirs; they get the local gov’t to cut off water and salt the land to make people leave; then people leave.
If you really want an understanding I’d recommend watching the first season of Alaska: The Last Frontier
i grew up in the middle of nowhere in the mojave desert; i’ve had my fill of nature for the rest of my life.
I have zero desire to live like that to be completely honest with you
Not my dream
