Have been seriously considering moving to the countryside for couple of months and setting up my own self sufficient farm. Really tired of traffic, polution, city life, big corporations and other bulshtt. Anyone else?
1 week ago · 👍 m0xee, softwarepagan, bavarianbarbarian
@radish I mean that I have been planning that idea for a couple of months. Moving would be permanent as much as possible. · 2 days ago
Sounds like a great idea. What do you mean, though, by a couple of months? That seems like a very short timeframe. · 5 days ago
i come from the outback, moved to the city, went back. best decision ever. · 5 days ago
There’s a village in Italy where I have family. We go there every year or so to visit. I’d love to move there one day, but I’ve never lived on my own and I don’t know what public transport is like there. · 6 days ago
could always set up a sub space over on BBS. · 6 days ago
@whixr is doing something similar i think. we should have a off grid/homestead community somewhere in gemini. any interest? · 1 week ago
is there some environmental group I can ask a grant of in order to get off grid? that'd help. · 1 week ago
would love to do this. kinda hard to obtain the money to make it happen. and as it turns out, the romanticized urge to "get away" is a lot easier than doing more of the work. · 1 week ago
I am actively working toward making this happen. Good luck and let's share tips lol · 1 week ago
oh heck yeah. if I had the capacity to do so, I'd do it in a heartbeat. that or out in a forest or something. · 1 week ago
I moved away from the city just over a year ago to start a homestead for growing and raising our own food. · 1 week ago
working on it. slow process, b/c need the city job to earn the funding capital. have the property already and nurture it on the weekends. absolute pleasure despite the physical work involved. · 1 week ago
I' lived in the moutnains for many years, live on the edge of an old victorian city now. It's nice both ways. We didn't have Cable TV, internet was dial up, no cell phone. The well water was nice, I only dug the septic tank once, there was always some sort of chores, especally in winter. In town I have internet, I have gas heat, town sewer, I have maintained roads. I still have to mow and shovel but I don't loose power every winter for a few days. I think it's good to experience both, and finding the balance understanding that "the balance point" shifts with time. · 1 week ago
I've been using my friend's country house during COVID lockdowns, and although I wasn't self-sufficient — I still had to go to the nearby town for food, water and other supplies, I mostly did that on foot though, and I still had electricity and non-drinkable running water, there were not a lot of people around, except for my friends coming to visit me on weekends, and the was a forest nearby. It was quite a refreshing experience! · 1 week ago