You have no idea the temptation I have to do just that. A satellite connection and a remote job for income and I’d be good. A family member is up in Alaska already, he’s got a plot of land with a natural gas deposit that wasn’t large enough or near enough to a populated area for the US gov to care about. So they’ve got it tapped and have a pretty ideal setup. They bought my grandfather’s tractor a while ago an old restored 1912 John Deere.
I do enjoy the comforts of living near everything. I’m not sure I could give up having 100s of restaurants to choose from and a dozen or more grocery stores in a 10 mile radius. Or the specialty delis, high speed gigabit, and other comforts of civilization.
One of my peers works in a very remote area of BC (Americans: BC is in another country and it borders Alaska’s south tip) in unionized IT via starlink. Think: the major highway going past it is two-lane.
quiet
hard work
no commute
land
pension (50% fo life after 25)
biking
hiking
backyard camping is camping
But:
fucking prepper tourists
sometimes the power dumps
you wanna see what’s outside before going out to the garage.
Remember: nature doesn’t care about you and we’ve only been pissing her off for 50 years.
You have no idea the temptation I have to do just that. A satellite connection and a remote job for income and I’d be good. A family member is up in Alaska already, he’s got a plot of land with a natural gas deposit that wasn’t large enough or near enough to a populated area for the US gov to care about. So they’ve got it tapped and have a pretty ideal setup. They bought my grandfather’s tractor a while ago an old restored 1912 John Deere.
I do enjoy the comforts of living near everything. I’m not sure I could give up having 100s of restaurants to choose from and a dozen or more grocery stores in a 10 mile radius. Or the specialty delis, high speed gigabit, and other comforts of civilization.
Learn to cook and how to read books. I would envy that situation.
One of my peers works in a very remote area of BC (Americans: BC is in another country and it borders Alaska’s south tip) in unionized IT via starlink. Think: the major highway going past it is two-lane.
But:
Remember: nature doesn’t care about you and we’ve only been pissing her off for 50 years.