I’m majoring in CS related-field, and I used to have tons of passion for it and underlying tech, and worked as full stack dev, but my mind was very different in a good way (better at logical/cognitive demanding tasks, creative, productive, etc). Things happened, and I just can’t stand living in society, experiencing all this materialistic world and feeling sick about it. I’m truly traumatized and I’ve been trying all available means to improve (so I’m not asking what rule 3 is against)… I can’t feel any passion for what I used to do… The meanings I gave for my life and hope are away. I don’t care anymore about digital world, industrialization, I just can’t. So my performance has suffered due to all this.

So, it can sound funny to read this, but I am considering living in a farm I have access to and do my own farming to eat, artesian well for water, constructing just a little home to live… I don’t exactly care about electricity. I would probably be happier just by burning some stuff to have light at night if needed and looking at the stars all alone until death.

What do you all think about this?

  • Bo7a
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    1 year ago

    I spent a lot of years moving around as a contractor/consultant devops/sysadmin/IT architect and finally broke when I got stuck in Switzerland on what was supposed to be a 3 week client engagement, and was extended by covid lockdowns for almost a year.

    I decided right then that I was done moving/travelling and started looking for where I wanted to settle in.

    We chose a small piece of super cheap forest land in the middle of nowhere and started clearing just enough space for a small driveway and a tiny house. We started fully off-grid with just a few kWh of solar to power laptops and a starlink setup, and carrying water from the creek in buckets.

    We now have 1000 litres of water storage that I fill with a gas pump instead of buckets, 12v water pump and propane heater that deliver hot and cold water in two taps (bathtub and kitchen sink), and got tied to the grid, so I could run desktops instead of laptops.

    I spend my mornings pre-standup hand-feeding chipmunks and squirrels, and watching flocks of Blue Jays eat from the various seed piles we leave lying around. It almost makes the idiocy of every standup bearable.

    This all a digression - But the TL;DR is this - Yes, leave the city. Life will be physically more difficult for a while. But once you have the creature comforts out in the country, you will never consider going back to a city.