I would prefer the cul de sac of 8 close friends, but still surronded in nature.
I would like that, but with internet, and lan parties.
Yeah my Father in Law basically has this… but significantly nicer (4bed, 4bath, full kitchen, running spring water, off-grid solar+batteries), up a mountain, surrounded by pine trees, with StarLink internet.
It’s amazing when we can go visit for a week or 2
Hell no lol
We basically have this in Ireland. Only instead of a log cabin its an old cottage in the middle of nowhere.
An old cottage with a gigabit connection.
meh, I’m too anxious and would end up fitting a bunch of security in and on the house
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.
I’d rather have a modern house, some housemates and no internet.
Definitely not, my dream place to life is microdistrict with everything needed close.
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.
Internet is useless compared to a proper well. Water - good
Everyone I know who lives in the woods has a well functioning well. None of them I know have fast internet.
Everyone has fast internet in the Nordic countries, no matter how rural they live.
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.
Okay but that’s incompatible with my beloved bidet.
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
Ah yes – cold and drafty, that’s the way we like it.
Wish granted. Enjoy mosquitoes.
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.
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
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.
And deadites.
I’m not sure about the fast internet anymore. The internet is cancer and getting worse.
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.
slow internet is better
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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, 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.
I’m sure heat is covered since it has a fireplace. The others are luxuries I can do without
