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I dream of quitting my job and living on some land. My wife refuses to "live in the middle of nowhere, where there's nothing to do". I guess I shall continue to work a job I hate in order to live in this expensive area.
You have a disagreement with your significant other, and the resolution you came up with is "ignore what I want and just go with what they want" ? That doesn't sound great.
My grandparents and great grandparents all lived on 4+ acre properties in rural Louisiana. Not quite cottages, but a similar concept. They had 1100 - 1300sq foot homes but lived along the river and you could get to all of their houses without ever leaving River Road. They lived about 1 hour from the nearest city and were about halfway between Baton Rouge and New Orleans and had a gigantic community social group. They…
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I think this is not a lot different than Bezos types visiting Burning Man on a VIP package.
Yup, the time-honored tradition of the rich LARPing as the commoner is as alive as ever.
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Sometimes the economic scarcity is relatively less scarce than in urban areas. For example, at least during the depression those with farms had to ability to grow their own food. To be fair, sometimes the government would allow urban households to garden in a 1/4 acre or so plot in designated areas as part of a program to help people be more self sufficient. Although my grandfather said not many people took advantage…
> For example, at least during the depression those with farms had to ability to grow their own food. Those without farms overwhelmingly didn't need to. The only place in North America to have widespread hunger during the Great Depression was Newfoundland. If most people didn't take advantage of allotments it was because it wasn't worth it. After the fall of the Soviet Union lots and lots of urban ex-Soviet citizens…
My grandpa remembers many urban people during the depression complaining about food, but unwilling to work a garden on a government plot.
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Aren't most of the people at burning man pretty fashionable/wealthy? Peasants compared to Bezos sure, but not the population at large. More like the king among the minor nobility.
Yes, but “pretty fashionable/wealthy” would also describe most users on this forum.
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As of writing, I live on a farm an hours drive from the nearest grocery store. It's still a first world country, but people have a lot less disposable income than the states. The floor boards do suck, and the electricity gets cut more often. But I get 58.6Mbps down, 21.4Mbps up. Ground to ground satellite.
Mind mentioning your satellite isp?
I dream of quitting my job and living on some land. My wife refuses to "live in the middle of nowhere, where there's nothing to do". I guess I shall continue to work a job I hate in order to live in this expensive area.
I frequently see this as an idle dream but assume most people who dream of it would not last a year before quitting or getting themselves seriously injured or killed in some manner.
I love my backyard garden (even though my Brussels Sprout experiment this year proved to be a huge waste of time). I also love the aesthetic that cottagecore is revitalizing. I love drinking at local wineries, buying stuff at my local farmer's market, brewing beer and swapping bottles with homebrew friends, etc... But holy shit am I repulsed by the influencer aspect that is growing with this "movement". Ways of Seein…
I feel the same way about woodwork, sure there's gimmicky creators but the reality of the hobby is nobody is getting rich or famous, selling pieces will barely cover material costs and having the fanciest gear won't necessarily give you a better finished piece. Although epoxy river tables make me cringe everytime I see one...
More-so even than walnut-stained construction-grade plywood gaming tables? ;-)
Hey, I shouldn't poke fun, you got to start somewhere.
I grew up in a farming area, and my family had a 30'x30' garden. Farming is a lot of work. It's a job, not a hobby. Even the garden was a fair amount of work, but more importantly, it's a lot of veggies to eat after harvest. I had tomato sandwiches daily for months. Plus insects to control. Doable, but not glamorous like the "cottagecore" photos. If I did a serious garden again, I'd focus on becoming a skilled grower…
My focus is on "lazy gardening" -- or how much can I get nature to automate things. How much can I use waste biomass as a resource. Etc. I end up with a lot of failures, but the successes are really satisfying. The main challenge is that the feedback loop is ~1yr which means that it's not a hobby for the impatient. :)
Really interesting twitter thread by @SarahTaber_bww breaking this down from yesterday: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1443225915073437698.html
not really interesting - subliterate drivel/anger from someone who can't seem to handle the idea of people who are different than themselves