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Had a chat with some goons about their experiences living away from other folks, foregoing the conveniences of living in an urban area. While I have lived in a rural area of agricultural town before, I was still within 10 minutes of a walmart and half of that distance to a gas station. It sucked for a variety of reasons but the one thing I did like was being able to pee outside and see the stars more clearly at night. Then I thought about my old archaeology job where I met people living so remotely that WW3 could happen in America and they'd likely never hear about it. These tended to be older folks. They were kind to us visiting, answered the questions us younger students predictably asked: Hows life without internet /cellphone /individual phone lines (they used a thing called "party lines" where an entire street shares the same phone line). Because these folks lived in the mountains, getting to services was generally challenging. We were hours from grocery stores or medical services or gas stations. Of course, despite all these privations, they were happy to stay in the mountains away from everyone for the foreseeable future. Also one older guy broke his back or something while cutting trees and he had to crawl his way back to his house and find some way to crawl to help. Despite that event he still has no desire to leave. I don't really get it, but also im a dumb terminally online millennial who walks to my local 9-Eleven to buy a candy or pizza or something. Genuinely interested to hear what you all like best about living away from others.
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i like showering nude in the front yard. drunk driving golf carts (not on public roads) is also pretty fun.
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Jul 18, 2020 07:22
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for anyone looking to pursue a life in the wilderness I bring you a cautionary tale. two nights ago, on a night much like tonight, I went outside to use the bathroom just like god intended. when I went for the door knob to get back inside there was a daddy long legs the size of my hand perched on top, ready to attack. it hosed me up so bad I threw my peanut butter cracker on the ground and frankly I havnt been the same since i slept outside that night
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Jul 18, 2020 07:43
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I live in LA, but I'm currently with family in Montana. Turns out breathing air is... good?! Also there are way more than three stars, it turns out.
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Jul 18, 2020 08:07
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I miss it so goddamn much, but it was just this side of too rural for internet.
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Jul 18, 2020 08:09
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God drat I wish. Due to covid travel restrictions I spent my last vacation travelling the countryside, castles, lakes and poo poo, wow its great. I know its my advanced age speaking when I no longer care about the coolest clubs and such but living in a house near a river and forest and not giving a gently caress is far superior to living in a city.
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Jul 18, 2020 13:21
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lets just say i personally know a lot of squirrels and they all hold me in high regard
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Jul 18, 2020 13:26
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what's up with your poll op
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Jul 18, 2020 13:50
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I'd rather eat a bullet than live somewhere with anything less than broadband internet
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Jul 18, 2020 13:57
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My nearest stoplight is around 10-15 minutes away, depending on if you drive the speed limit or if you drive what everyone else out here drives. It's quiet when people aren't blowing poo poo up or shooting whatever the hell they feel the need to blow away at 11:30 at night. The stars are unbelievable. I have my itty bitty farm and everyone pretty much tries not to bother anyone else. It's nice. I'd like to be significantly further out, but I'd also like to have a DVM and the money to equip a personal office before I do it so I can tend to any animal emergencies. I'd also like more land so there's less 11:30 pm boom boom boom stuff. Who What Now posted:I'd rather eat a bullet than live somewhere with anything less than broadband internet I have amazing internet. There are rural places that don't have it but that's rarer and rarer these days.
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Jul 18, 2020 14:35
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There's not morons everywhere like in the city. There's morons but they're like a mile away at least.
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Jul 18, 2020 15:22
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I grew up in a rural area and let me tell you as a child it sucks balls
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Jul 18, 2020 15:46
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The cum is tangier.
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Jul 18, 2020 15:48
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The countryside sucks. Not sure why anyone would want to live here.
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Jul 18, 2020 16:01
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I dont live rurally but I want to so bad. I lived in a rural farming town for about 3 years because of a job I had and I did it without tv or internet and I think it was the only time I ever felt truly mentally healthy. I don’t want to live in some farming town again but I’d love to live in some dark woods where I can’t see my neighbors homes or ever hear them. With the pandemic I’m now used to shopping every other week. I hate driving in traffic and I hate all the crowds.
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Jul 18, 2020 16:02
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Those who think they can get away with things like driving like an idiot around town or sleeping with another person's spouse have a couple things to learn about watching their back.
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Jul 18, 2020 16:17
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All I need is the remote countryside, a metric ton of weed and some gnarly guitar amplifiers hah you guys know what the gently caress im talkin about!
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Jul 18, 2020 16:18
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If you're going to live in the country, live in a rural tourist town. It brings a lot of energy to the area every weekend, then it quiets down in the middle of the week. Tourists also mean disproportionately more restaurant options, better availability of things like groceries, wineries and breweries, and roads that are well-maintained. Just don't work in the tourism sector -- enjoy it, and don't touch the poop.
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Jul 18, 2020 16:20
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I wish I could live somewhere peaceful. In the city people are always partying late at night or my roommate is doing stuff in the kitchen. In the small town where my parents live seagulls, magpies, crows, thrushes etc. squawk and croak constantly and people are always walking or driving by making lots of noise. If just want to sleep for God's sake!
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Jul 18, 2020 16:21
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:All I need is the remote countryside, a metric ton of weed and some gnarly guitar amplifiers hah you guys know what the gently caress im talkin about! This is literally my life, but add in a lot of hiking and a private disc golf course.
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Jul 18, 2020 16:21
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PTSDeedly Do posted:I grew up in a rural area and let me tell you as a child it sucks balls yep. me too and I hated it, everything was a pain in the rear end especially once I got older and had to commute to work for minimum wage. I don't care if society collapses, I'd rather die someplace I can get a pizza delivered than live in the middle of nowhere again.
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Jul 18, 2020 16:25
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Preggo My Eggo! posted:If you're going to live in the country, live in a rural tourist town. It brings a lot of energy to the area every weekend, then it quiets down in the middle of the week. Tourists also mean disproportionately more restaurant options, better availability of things like groceries, wineries and breweries, and roads that are well-maintained. I learned to stay off the local twitters or I was to be finding out how much the local @bartender06997420 hates the tourists that bring the money.
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Jul 18, 2020 16:25
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Preggo My Eggo! posted:This is literally my life, but add in a lot of hiking and a private disc golf course. Uuuuuuh So you figured it out, then? You cracked the code on life, man. Please allow to me study at your knee I am not kidding.
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Jul 18, 2020 17:04
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Das Boo posted:I live in LA, but I'm currently with family in Montana. Turns out breathing air is... good?! Go check out the comet in the northern sky it's 
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Jul 18, 2020 19:50
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You can shoot guns(preferably at deer) while in the great outdoors without somebody calling the cops on you but because these are goons the great outdoors isn't for them
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Jul 18, 2020 19:54
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Bug what you described sounds like 1965 rural. We have cellphones and all kinds of poo poo now. + no street lights + minimal cop traffic + low traffic period + forming communities to create coops like for roads and water and sewer + yard for kids Eg sledding + social distance is all the rage - gun shooting in off season or in season for that matter - unexpected bills usually covered by municipalities eg road repair - windshield time - kids dating someone a county away - slow internet eg 20 mbps max without sucking a cable company dick
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Jul 19, 2020 01:05
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20 Blunts posted:There's not morons everywhere like in the city. There's morons but they're like a mile away at least. You missed one. I live in a forest because I can do what I want whenever.
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Jul 19, 2020 05:54
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In the city you gotta worry about drug addicts trying to get into your house and cars. In the country it's the wildlife trying to get into your houses and cars.
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Jul 19, 2020 05:57
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I've become a rural poverty skeptic. Every time I'm invited out to the boonies, I can't help but notice that they have a house much bigger than anything I'll ever get in the city, they have all the same amenities the suburbs have, they can afford to raise six children even though daddy is an alcoholic who never seems to have a real job, they have three cars that work and five more sitting in the yard awaiting repair, and they have a full armory of high quality firearms. All of these things had to have been purchased with money. And those that don't have any money all scam "The Disability," which should really be renamed the Redneck Lottery.
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Jul 19, 2020 06:49
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Animal-Mother posted:I've become a rural poverty skeptic. please elaborate on this 'The Disability', papa needs a new gun rack
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Jul 19, 2020 07:02
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:please elaborate on this 'The Disability', papa needs a new gun rack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Srkytojhk
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Jul 19, 2020 07:19
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do not ever move somewhere remote
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Jul 19, 2020 07:30
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some dipshit moved into the farmhouse behind my folks place to convert it into a guesthouse type deal, and immediately made a bunch of noise complaints because the roosters would make a racket every morning. Like cmon son it's a bunch of working farms all around, what were you expecting.
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Jul 19, 2020 08:01
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CannonFodder posted:Does Sagittarius have anything on the stars of Sunset Strip? I think not. Hollywood is nasty! But the comet is good, thanks for the reminder! Also wanted to share that at the end of my parents' driveway is the Windows desktop: 
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Jul 19, 2020 08:51
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I don't! Stop asking me these weird questions!
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Jul 19, 2020 08:55
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you can bury anything you want and no one will ever know.
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Jul 19, 2020 09:51
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time sort of stands still and life begins to feel like a dream and also I can scream whenever I want and as loud as I want unless my dads around then he might ask me to knock it off
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Jul 19, 2020 10:31
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my family has a place in the North Cascades in Washington that's only accessible by boat or floatplane. There are cars up there, but there are no roads in; cars have to be barged in. They never really got phones, but now everyone has satellite internet. we haven't been up this year because the biggest family up there that controls a lot of the valley continues to descend into pentacostal fundamentalism/trumpism and thinks the virus is a hoax
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Jul 19, 2020 10:35
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:you can bury anything you want and no one will ever know. Dumb farmers, keep burying their seed...
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Preggo My Eggo! posted:If you're going to live in the country, live in a rural tourist town. It brings a lot of energy to the area every weekend, then it quiets down in the middle of the week. Tourists also mean disproportionately more restaurant options, better availability of things like groceries, wineries and breweries, and roads that are well-maintained. This also applies to college towns. I hated growing up in one but as an adult it's great. It's got everything you need-need and all the other benefits you describe. I'm seriously impressed at how the restaurant options have exploded in the last decade or so, even after a bunch of corona closures.
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