Anyone else feel the same ?

pitdog

pitdog

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I have just watched the movie " Into the wild " and I can 100% see where he was coming from, I don't talk to many people about by real passion for the outdoors incase they think me a nutter but I hate city/modern living !!!
When I hike to out of the way places I just feel empowered and at home.
My wife often says that I could live on a mountain top and I'd be happy....and she is right but I'd want her by my side.....and that is my dream for when I retire.
It's hard to put in words how I feel about being absorbed in nature, I just can't seem to get enough of it....does anyone else feel the same or am I just a nutter ?:confused:
 
i'd need electricity and and internet connection so i could still check the forums. fora.

otherwise, screw the grid.
 
I feel exactly the same way. If I had the financial means, I'd have long ago left civilization in favor of the bush. I don't think that the way society is pushing people to live is natural. Hopefully, one day, I'll be able to retire in a nice secluded place.


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When I travel into the city with my wife I often remark to her that there's no way I'd live there. I don't like any neighbors. I like to take a rifle to the mailbox, shoot in my backyard, and piss in my front yard to keep the deer away.

Cities blow.
 
Brian Jones said:
Broadband wireless/laptop.
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we'll just wrap some copper wire around some magnets, load em on a spindle with some fan blades, stick em atop the log cabin and have enough power for a macbook, guitar amp, and a toaster oven. can't complain with that.
 
Magnum22 said:
we'll just wrap some copper wire around some magnets, load em on a spindle with some fan blades, stick em atop the log cabin and have enough power for a macbook, guitar amp, and a toaster oven. can't complain with that.
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See? Now you're thinkin'! :D
 
I dunno about living permanently off the grid - but I do know I'd like to have a few more extended trips.

A couple of years back I walked the Larapinta trail in central Australia. It took us 21 days and in the moments before we were being picked up I had a strong urge to turn around and do the whole thing again in reverse.

So I guess there is something in the idea of 40 days and 40 nights in the desert.

My next trip will definetly be longer than a month........
 
Robert H said:
When I travel into the city with my wife I often remark to her that there's no way I'd live there. I don't like any neighbors. I like to take a rifle to the mailbox, shoot in my backyard, and piss in my front yard to keep the deer away.

Cities blow.
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Man I thought I was wierd for taking my Benelli to the mail box all the time..HA!! I piss in the yard too, but it aint cause of the deer.LOL.

I see people paying half a million dollars to live in a house so close to each other you can smell your neighbors farts and know what he had for lunch. And I just shake my head. These people live in house farms, and they go on like oceans as far as the eye can see.
We live on 8 acres off a dirt road now, and Im REALLY looking forward to living on 25 in N Idaho. I feel like I can breath up there, and it aint just cause we have bad air in So Kal..;)

Im a nutter, and proud of it. They can keep thier cities.
 
Robert H said:
When I travel into the city with my wife I often remark to her that there's no way I'd live there. I don't like any neighbors. I like to take a rifle to the mailbox, shoot in my backyard, and piss in my front yard to keep the deer away.

Cities blow.
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Same with me... not that i don't like people i just don't like 'em near my dwelling and i enjoy walking outside and squeezing a trigger whenever i take a notion... Oh and i like to piss where i please!
 
Pit if your nutter, so am I. I never tire of the outdoors, to some it's just the same old same old, but to me everything is always changing, something new over every hill...and as you said, I just feel at home in the woods.
 
I hate the big cities, but don't mind rural areas.

I don't find any redeeming value in the McCandless story, however.

Guy was just mentally disturbed. The version in the book and movie romanticizes an idiot blundering into the woods and starving to death.
 
Yes McCandless was a fool, but I see his point.

I lived in an village that bordered Milwaukee for a while and friggin' hated it!

The area I live in now is were I grew up and it's becoming a suburb too. Twenty-five years ago, I could roam most anywhere as it was farm country, woods and marshes. Now city folks move in, buy 40 acres of former cornfield for $100k, build a half million dollar home, post it, and bitch about deer eating the flower garden.

DUH!!!
 
Pit,
I watched the film a couple of days ago..and I can totally agree with you/ him...dispite all the things people here have said about him not being prepared...you have to admit he had GUTS. I admire him for his courage to leave the BS society and head out to live like we were intended to.
I love the line in the film " a career is a 20th century invention, and I don't want one" .....very cool stuff...
 
Lets just say that I know exactly how you feel. I have been that way since birth. I detest cities. Once in a while we have to go to Minneapolis to the VA, there are more people in that seven county community than there is in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana combined. What the hell do they see there? I will stay out here in no mans land, My land.:)
 
Hi Pitdog, I feel the same way, I hate cities and many aspects of modern living. I believe I read in one of your posts that you emigrated from the UK ? :thumbup: I think you did the right thing !
I was born in the south east of England and was lucky enough to move to Scotland as soon as I left college nearly twenty years ago. I go back down south to see relatives, but cannot stand to be down there for longer than I have to. Life is too fast and urban and just too far removed from nature for me. Even life in Scotland is getting more suburban each year, I guess it comes from living on a small crowded island with 60 million people !
I need to get out in the woods and mountains regularly in order to stay sane.
I have not seen that film yet, but will have to add it to my list for when I'm next in town :) Love your photos btw !
 
I work in one of the biggest cities in WV (which isn't saying much) and then go home and have the woods and everything. I can only see 1 house from my place. I can go in the woods and to the ridgetop in some places and see no lights:thumbup:

Best of both worlds but I don't have HIGH SPEED NET!!! NOR CAN I GET IT at home:mad:
 
I'd love to have no neighbours and I'd love to have more space around me. I'd love to go into the woods and see NOONE!
But I'd also want to be relatively close to civilisation. Hot water, hot food and cold beer should always be available.
Off-the-grid is not for me, I ain't kidding myself. But space is something I desire. I too feel like I can breath better, when there is noone around me for miles.
 
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