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Okay, here's the deal: I'm sick tired of technology, polluted air, people swarming through the earth, selfishness, narcisistic cunts. I hate human beings and I would like to get away. I also would like to live in nature. Just me and nobody else - peace -, maybe a dog.
A lot of people say that, but when push comes to shove, they really can't hack it. But I TOTALLY understand your need to get away from the masses.
My parents were city-hippies (a counter-culture in North America) back in the 1970s, but they bought a 100 acres of land (with a little lake on it) in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. I was 6-months old at the time. There was no electricity because no one had ever lived there. There was no house and the only road was a logging trail. My dad built our house himself, using only the money he had earned over the years; my parents have never had a mortgage. When I was eight years old, my parents bought us electricity (they had to buy a dozen telephone polls, which is expensive). After that, we got a flushing toilet (no more outhouse) - talk about exciting!
They still live there, but today, with my mother's gardens, it is more beautiful than ever. It was stressful for her; raising two babies in a wild place, where her dog was ripped to shreds on the front porch by a mountain lion and seeing bears is an everyday occurrence. She ended up having a stroke when she was only 33 years old. She's happy now, but she sacrificed a lot to get there.
All of their hippie friends from the city did the same thing, yet my parents are the only ones who endured over the past 36 years. Everyone else moved back to the towns and cities after about a decade of "living off the land". I am so proud of my parents.
What you are wishing for may be a lot more difficult than you imagine.
Wow, im not alone! You should watch the movie 'into the wild' its my favorite movie, its about a young man who actually does end up adventuring his way to alaska and living in the wild, its based on a true story, you'd like it :)
Thoreau? You want to be Thoreau, he was all about that Walden Pond, and stuff like that.
Lots of people want to get away to an oasis, a retreat. There's spas for that. There are resorts for that too. I know, its still got technology. If you really want to go be with nature? Go camping. Its fun. Some go with bare basics, others bring the biggest RV on the planet, lol.
I always would like to live like that in some point living off the land and not worry about world issues, the tough economy, just enjoy the outdoors and eat the freshest meat ever :P
When things get bad enough thats what im doing. Im a country boy and I know I can live off the land we do it for 2 weeks in december and its really nothing if you have the right tools
Here's an idea: have a movie night, alone. Watch Deliverance, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th and The Evil Dead and then decide if you still want to live all alone in the woods.
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Those kind of creepy people really do exist; sometimes not quite to the extent in the movies, but they're pretty weird anyway. I remember when I was a kid and my parents were telling me that some of the people who lived in the same district as us were not really "normal" because they been marrying their cousins for too many generations. There also seemed to be a lot of young guys getting arrested for diddling their sisters. On the upside; people in the country are less pretentious.
That would be awesome man I feel the same way sometimes. I love the wilderness and go camping every year and never want to leave. There was a guy who did what you want to do about 40 years ago his name was dick proenneke look it up he stayed for 25 years out there in alaska and made everything from the wild
I recommend a summer retreat. I grew up in NJ but now live in the Adirondack Mountains of NY and love it. The lifestyle is much more relaxed and my annual salary allows us to live rather comfortably, whereas in an urban area we would struggle to stay afloat.