Yah. But also with heat, running water, AC, a convenience shop nearby and some friends. So basically what I already have minus a job.
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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I want this, but with an irrationally large Evil Dead esque cellar, for my hobbies.
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idk about the internet. kinda makes me sad these days
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
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Internet's not the only infrastructure you need.
Speak for yourself, carbon lifeform
( /j )
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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
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.
So a Finnish summer cabin? I mean it is heaven tbf
I would prefer the cul de sac of 8 close friends, but still surronded in nature.
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Genuinely laughed! Thank you (also this is me)!
Definitely not, my dream place to life is microdistrict with everything needed close.
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 have zero desire to live like that to be completely honest with you
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.
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I prefer houses not made from the same material the heating system uses for fuel.
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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.
I’m ok without internet but plumbing would be nice
my dream is the complete and final destruction of America and the false state of Israel
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