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    27 days ago

    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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          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

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            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.

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        26 days ago

        Yeah, no.

        While you might not need it, everyone has a different temperature tolerance and for some people, it is absolutely a requirement.

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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.

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        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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      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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        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.

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          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

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        Totally agree. But how much those drawbacks affect you also depends a lot on where you are located geographically.

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          All would be solved by me building my own metro line from the shack to the nearest city.

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    26 days ago

    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.

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    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.

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      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

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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      If you really want an understanding I’d recommend watching the first season of Alaska: The Last Frontier

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        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.

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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.

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    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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        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

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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.

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      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.

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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

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    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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        Or just keep your rig at the library. Makes it so you’re around when the library LAN parties start.