Yah. But also with heat, running water, AC, a convenience shop nearby and some friends. So basically what I already have minus a job.
You don’t need A/C.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
Edit: I meant that you don’t need A/C in a cottage like the one pictured, not that A/C is unnecessary altogether. I used to live in Texas. No A/C will literally kill you in Texas, but in a wooded mountain cottage surrounded by trees like that, you don’t really need it. In my house in WY, the hottest it ever gets inside is 78 with low humidity. Below is the current temp in my room, with computers running, at 2:22PM.
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.
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.
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.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
No you don’t Wyoming doesn’t exist. Garfield told me so.
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, or even reasonably affordable, and easy, do you know what I’ve had this summer?
Edit; edited for clarity.
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.
I’m sure heat is covered since it has a fireplace. The others are luxuries I can do without
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.
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.
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 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.
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?
only if you’re lucky.
humans are much worse.
Chupathingys are real
I dated a more than a few chupathingys. Always a good time.
What about puma?
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 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.
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.
Guinea fowl even more so
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
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.
You want Norway, Sweden and Finland. You can get fast internett pretty much anywhere and a large portion of the countries are just forest. I actually met a guy in Troms who is the only year round resident of an island that has two ferries a week if you book ahead of time and he has fast internett, as well as a lovely vegetable garden and a plentiful supply of fish.
Lived like that for a while (but with a working shower and not-so-fast internet). 10/10 would recommend. Will do again when I’m done with $CURRENT_LIFE_ISSUES.
Definitely not, my dream place to life is microdistrict with everything needed close.
Plus a plumbed toilet and air conditioning.
A composting toilet is all I want and need.
- No clogging
- No splashing
- No waste of water
- No smell
I always hate to use a plumbed toilet when we visit friends or family.
Do u mean 2 sticks and a hole in the ground type of outhouse? 1 stick to put your pants on and second one to fight off bears while u poop?
I disagree but hell if this didn’t make me laugh like a mofo lmao
Okay but that’s incompatible with my beloved bidet.
Wish granted. Enjoy mosquitoes.
I was going g to comment how I have the thing pictured, but that it comes with several real drawbacks. Not just mosquitoes either. Imagine having to buy and operate your own snow plow to leave the house in winter. Or buying groceries in bulk because the nearest Walmart is a three hour drive.
May - blackflies
June - mosquitoes and blackflies
July - mosquitoes and deer flies
August - mosquitoes, deer flies, and horse flies
September - All of the above, and start to worry about stuff freezing.
October - Whew, I can finally work outside
November - Start the fire, and keep it going until April.
Ok where I live it’s :
Jan - snow and first sunrise of the year
Feb - snow
Mar - snow
April - snow
May - snow followed by two weeks of thaw, last sunset for 2 months and one week of spring
Jun - warm but no bugs
Jul - where has all my blood gone (mosquitoes and horsefly) sun starts setting again
Aug - same exsanguination issues as July
SEP - too cold for bugs lol
Oct - snow
Nov - Snow last sunrise of the year
Dec - snow
To be fair, you do live in the Arctic.
It’s the best place. Although tbh for the last few years, there’s been a lot of rain mixed into the snow, because the climate is fucked.
That’s terrifying…
It’s certainly less than optimal.
Totally agree. But how much those drawbacks affect you also depends a lot on where you are located geographically.
All would be solved by me building my own metro line from the shack to the nearest city.
Once you get used to them and if you live north of the Malaria regions, mosquitos aren’t such a big deal. If you keep getting stung, eventually you will barely notice.
I live in arctic Scandinavia, the mosquitos will fucking exsanguinate your ass.
And deadites.
Nah the internet sucks no matter where you live. That cottage with a closed network or something like Secure Scuttlebutt/Manyverse in a little village would be cool though. The town library can have gigabit internet (for downloading media) and a shared local Jellyfin (& calibre, Navidrome, audiobookshelf, etc) server that can be accessed by anyone in town.
Want to play Live Service or online games? To the library. Publish your website or music album or artwork outside of the local loop? To the library. Online classes? To the library.
My gaming rig weighs like 90lb, I’ll be running CAT6 to the library thanks
Or just keep your rig at the library. Makes it so you’re around when the library LAN parties start.
I’m not sure about the fast internet anymore. The internet is cancer and getting worse.
I did it for nearly 3 years with limited access.
You get over it eventually and start living life instead of watching other people live theirs.
I can’t wait to unplug again.
Why did you disconnect? Because of location or work or what?
A friend inherited off-grid property. I was already into the idea of homesteading and survivalism and had been building those skills sets for years. What started as a little bit of helping on the weekends turned into full time living. I didn’t think I could do it and it was hard.
But now I know what I’m capable of and how much nicer life is when you live it. I’ve been back in regular society for a few years and my phone is still on ‘do not disturb’ mode all the time.
‘do not disturb’ mode is a must. my brain can’t focus on any single activity if i constantly expect to be interrupted while doing it.
Yeah i have notifications silenced as they are a stupid distraction.
I have a tablet for work that I rarely use so I leave it for the kids to play on. Everytime i look at it there is hundreds of notifications from games they play. How are the kids meant to get anything done if they keep getting interrupted.
slow internet is better, like slow food :D
I think you are confusing the internet with people.
If you consider corporations as people, yes.
corporations are not people themselves, but they are made of people.
This right here. Just disappear into the woods and forget about the doomscroll in its entirety.
If one day you wake up in your cabin to a bright flash in the sky so be it, and least you had a good life.
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
That’s what the internet is for
I’ve lived out in the rural before. I’d only do it again if there was a pharmacy that was open more than 9-5 mon-fri within a reasonable driving distance, a grocery store, and at least one good restaurant close by (it’s nice to be removed from other but boy does cooking for yourself every meal get old fast).
I went and had a pile of kids so I have to do it everyday. Oh my god I’m tired.
And what was I thinking?
Every time you figure out what’s for dinner bam you gotta do it again.
We have to kids and cook every day. We have about 12 dishes we cycle through, plus a new dish every couple of weeks. Plan for a week and shop for it accordingly.
Before the kids i would go to the local supermarket, that, regardless of the city i lived in, never was more than 10 Minutes away by foot. I’d figure out what i was feeling like cooking once i was
But it is nice to have other options, like ordering food, for the very lazy and very stressful days. This i would give up for a nice place in nature though.
I don’t understand this at all. I go out to eat like 4 times a year, and that’s only on long car trips I end up stopping at a fast-food joint. I was amazed when I found out city people think of McDonald’s as cheap food. Y’all must be made of money.
I want this, but with an irrationally large Evil Dead esque cellar, for my hobbies.
I don’t need it to be big. Just a small metal box with no entry for insects please.
You can keep it optimally dirty to avoid some insects (the ones who avoid mammallian products) and only deal with the ones which seek human smells/other molecules.
Those are the worst ones! Lmao
