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.
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.
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
I’m workin’ on it!
I saw something similar before
Burn a book! Save a tree!
Now the flowers will grow
No wheels on mine.
Aha! I suspected you’d comment.
Can confirm, the internet here is decent and it’s pretty far from people
Are you posting updates anywhere I can follow?
Nothing consistent. I probably should pick a spot and do a roll-up of the last four years and then post more regularly. I did a little summary about a year ago here --> https://lemmy.ca/post/16843909/7896562
Since then we actually have installed a deep well, washer/dryer, and two more outbuildings. I’ll try to reply to your comment in the next few days with more details if you are interested.
I also post completely randomly as Bo7a@loops.video and https://mstdn.ca/@solace
Sure, I’d be interested in an update!
That looks a lot like where I grew up, except nicer.
Wexford county?
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
Between lone star tick disease and deer prions I am not really all that interested in being in the woods proper anymore.
That’s why you get chickens or turkeys. They eat them.
Guinea fowl even more so
I lived here for several years. Every time you walk outside, an insect will find an orifice.
Set a fire in the fireplace, it sorts out the humid inside aor
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?
Okay but that’s incompatible with my beloved bidet.
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.
slow internet is better
I think you are confusing the internet with people.
If you consider corporations as people, yes.
corporations are not people themselves, but they are made of people.
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.
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
To be fair, you do live in the Arctic.
It’s the best place. Although tbh for the last few years, there’s been a lot of rain mixed into the snow, because the climate is fucked.
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 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.
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.
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.
either the nature or the solitude
i think this is why i don’t get it: growing up in the middle of nowhere taught me that nature can fuck you over in an instant multiple times and living in suburbia gave me a cold & painful dose of reality when it comes to solitude.
i suppose it looks nice if you’ve never experienced enough of the dark sides of nature and solitude.
I used to live alone in the forest like that and I loved it. I can’t wait to move back.
Yeah, nature can fuck me over but as long as I don’t have to deal with anyone I’ll manage.
nature isn’t as bad as people; you can atleast try to prepare of it.
out in the middle of nowhere, people can and do make sure that you can’t prepare for them.
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
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.
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.
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.
If you really want an understanding I’d recommend watching the first season of Alaska: The Last Frontier
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.
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
idk about the internet. kinda makes me sad these days
Definitely not, my dream place to life is microdistrict with everything needed close.
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
That’s what the internet is for
You don’t need to go to the hospital for a sprained ankle
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
I want this, but with an irrationally large Evil Dead esque cellar, for my hobbies.
I don’t need it to be big. Just a small metal box with no entry for insects please.
You can keep it optimally dirty to avoid some insects (the ones who avoid mammallian products) and only deal with the ones which seek human smells/other molecules.
