Your experience/views about dropping out of society please.

[Snype]

How long have u been in that farm? Is there people around? I was thinking of buying a farm too.

I've been here almost 9 months. It's great but sucks at the same time. Beautiful 360 degree views of all the mountains and rolling hills with about 300 acres of land. There's no real people around except a couple people that I know from this area.

I have this idea of raising kids here but I don't have any yet. It's very boring and it took a toll on my mind after about 6 months. It takes at least 2 hours just to go back and forth to a store. My immediate area is dirt roads that are now mud and the car can't even get out because it's stuck in the mud. The isolation sucks but you have to be creative which I am not. I have a plan to build a basketball and tennis court sometime this year which may help.

 

[LAMBS-BREAD]

I've been here almost 9 months. It's great but sucks at the same time. Beautiful 360 degree views of all the mountains and rolling hills with about 300 acres of land. There's no real people around except a couple people that I know from this area.

I have this idea of raising kids here but I don't have any yet. It's very boring and it took a toll on my mind after about 6 months. It takes at least 2 hours just to go back and forth to a store. My immediate area is dirt roads that are now mud and the car can't even get out because it's stuck in the mud. The isolation sucks but you have to be creative which I am not. I have a plan to build a basketball and tennis court sometime this year which may help.

Must be a beautiful place... I'm planning of doing this with my wife and daughter. We want to raise chickens and ducks and have a great vegetable garden... Trying to depend as less as we can from the system. Right it's planning stage. At first I just wanted to leave alone for a city/system break...But all around me I see people fed up with out real positive perpestive for their future.... If I was that rich I will probably keep a flat in the city, but I'm not.... I have a feeling that if I don't doing now, I will stock here for the rest of my life...

 

[LAMBS-BREAD]

You need to find a nice balance.....

I live on 80acres....no real neighbors...but close enough to a town and city to make it easy enough to commute..

I unplug in the evenings.....and weekends on the homestead.......

We get no visitors unless invited...we garden, raised poulty, cut firewood, can 100's of quarts a yr....eventually I want to put a cow calf pair on some unused pasture with a dugout and go from there...

I also work in the city tho...so commuting SUCKS....

To sit outside in the evening and hear NOTHING...but the odd cricket....take the dingy on my dugout....life is good man..

I have fruit trees, multiple gardens, and a small greenhouse for veggies....

You don't need to go all bushman to find a balance.

This is true I think me and my Wife will look into this now. I would love to live off of the land and sell my organic viggies/eggs etc... I think we are not happy anymore cause we need to stop selling made in china stuff, and start to locally produce what will like to and make a living that way... I can't see my self participating to the destruction of the economy and the polution of the lands anymore...

 

[stoned-trout]

fuck the city..the further I am from it the happier I am....I never get bored of hiking,fishing,kayaking,hunting and growing shit...... yeehaw

 

[Snype]

5 more days at the farm and then I'm out of here! My last harvest is almost done and I only have 3 more plants to finish. This 8.5 months have felt like 8.5 years. There will be 2 people living at the farm in my place that I've been training the last few weeks. Hopefully they will be able to keep the place together but who knows. Whatever happens happens. I just need to be freeeeeeeeeeeee!

The plan is to come up here every 10 days to 2 weeks and spend a few days here at that time. It won't be perfect but it seems to be the only way as of now if I want to have a life. I'm counting the hours down!

 

[Sisu]

fuck the city..the further I am from it the happier I am....I never get bored of hiking,fishing,kayaking,hunting and growing shit...... yeehaw

Right on. A lot of folks like the city and that's ok if you do. To me cities and city living seems like an unnatural way to live and I avoid it at all costs.

 

[doublejj]

My log cabin in the wilderness

My log cabin in the wilderness

I "dropped out" in 1970, upon returning from Vietnam. Went into the wilderness & built a log cabin. I started a thread about it a couple of years ago....here it is...https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=238923

 

[ion]

dern large cabin JJ......pro'lly good medicine after nam yah!

 

[stoned-trout]

my van down by the river lol....

 

[Snype]

Everybody should drop out of society. It's much better this way!

 

[stoned-trout]

I wouldn't mind finding my way back to maine... anything bangor and north...prob not in the cards tho

 

[mrcreosote]

I don't believe we know what you mean. Do you mean living off the "grad", or the Hippie thing, tune in turn on drop out?

I hope to do just that if that damn kid ever finishes college to be a grad. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]

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[mrcreosote]

Lemmee tell you something.

Like Rives says, rural living is a commitment a lot of people find too heavy to bear after a while.
Fingertip convenience is a thing of the past.
You want NY style pastrami on a bulkie roll? Chinese food? Quinoa with yak butter?
Fageddaboudit.
Unless you learn to make it yourself.

I took some wise advice from a transplant who lived waaaay out of town. If you have young kids in school, you will be nothing more than a taxi service until they get a license, burning up a ton of gas shlepping kids to school, friends, activities etc.etc.
Just because you want solitude doesn't mean they will. Count on it.

Live close to town until you can boot em then go to the sticks. Better learn to be a mechanic, carpenter, plumber, electrician and a welder too. A lot of folks live short on cash in the country, so if they have to come to you, expect to part with lots of it because there may not be a lot of competition for them to have to price against.

Having a few tornados roll through will be the excitement you crave. Enjoy them (but not too close).
Wildfires are also lots of fun if they miss you.
3 AM raccoons banging on your screen door or knocking on your metal trash barrels (they ate through you suburbia plastic ones while laughing at you) will provide some thrills as well as the stray runaway cow munching on wifey's roses.
Those bucolic country dirt roads will become impassible seas of sticky mud in rain.

Other than that, and few more surprises, it's pretty damn nice.

 

[Snype]

Living out in the middle of nowhere is unbelievably amazing! I can't believe how people live on top and below other people. A year ago I was in an apartment in the ghetto and I used to get so angry about hearing everyone's footsteps above me and babies crying and running around. I'm glad those days are the past and I don't have do deal with that. Those days of looking out of your window and seeing people everywhere and houses on top of each other with minimal trees, gone. So much less stress living on the farm. We only have 1 or 2 channels on the TV and no one really feels the need to watch or get consumed with phones or electronics like the city people. There's never anywhere to go to eat so we have to cook all of our meals which is really great because we are enjoying real food instead of all that processed crap that is killing everyone. If we didn't have the money to enjoy this, it might be hell! I couldn't imagine living on a farm and being poor. At least for me that would suck. It's a lot more work than being in the city but it shouldn't feel like work if this is what you really want to do. I'm not really trying to live off the grid or anything like that because I want to try to live farm life in luxury with all the farm toys that I need to make work as easy as possible. It's crazy how life can change so quickly.

 

[willyweed]

depends which society you want to drop out of and why? if you suffer from bad health, i would imagine it to be near impossible to do .
tramps and bums drop out in there own sort of way! just because they are not in the middle of nowhere .
i wonder if it is there health that keeps them in towns and city's
or the charity of others.either way i have not seen many in the country,but perhaps they are hiding ?(very well) .when things go wrong in the country,they tend to go wrong real big and real fast. personally i think dropping out of society is more of a mental thing than actually moving to the middle of nowhere!
all the best .ww

 

[Technaut]

As someone said its best to strike a balance..live just far enough away but just close enough to commute or whatever.

I'm 33 miles from where I work..the drive sucks but I get a good mix of city wages and country life

 

[stoned-trout]

had a bear come by ..cool looking cinnamon bear not black.....yeehaw .... I am semi civilized here...but theres plenty of open spaces ,mountains ,sequoias and other..... I can get further from a paved road than like 48 other states...if I find a loose cow I am rustling it lol....fucking steak for everyone ....

 

[mrcreosote]

had a bear come by ..cool looking cinnamon bear not black.....yeehaw .... I am semi civilized here...but theres plenty of open spaces ,mountains ,sequoias and other..... I can get further from a paved road than like 48 other states...if I find a loose cow I am rustling it lol....fucking steak for everyone ....

I hope you're kidding bout that...
Round these parts you'd get shot in the face...then they call the Sheriff to collect the trash.

 

[D. B. Doober]

I have family in the Adirondacks and its chill, like 7 miles to town, paved

 

[Harry Gypsna]

In my experience/opinion, it is something that is becoming much harder, and in some places (UK) nigh on impossible. Squatting criminalised, eating food from bins classed as theft. No ability to get a plot of land and live off what you produce, because the taxman wants some. Busking is off the table unless you are a pro musician and can pass a fucking audition for the city council (I shit you not).