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originally posted by: olaru12
For many years I lived in a rural mountain village with 50 families. We all knew each other and respected each other....
Then the rednecks discovered our peaceful village and drug up their junky trailers, dogs and loud ill mannered kids. Essentially they ruined a small mountain town with their whitetrash behavior.
I'm blessed to be able to make a good living anywhere I have an internet connection so I sold out and moved to a larger more affluent village. Even though there are many more people the life style is very nice and close enough to the city where I maintain office where I can meet with clients if need be.
Often it's much quieter in the city away from all the dirtbiks, coalroalers, ATVs, Logging trucks, etc than in the mountains.
Eventually I should be able to live on a nice isolated beach Mexico, Central America or South America. I have many expat friends that
encourage me to semiretire and live the good life....tempting, but I still enjoy the competition, vibrancy, entrepreneurial spirit and challenge of the US.
originally posted by: onequestion
Nope, can't do it much longer. Need to be in a more rural area. Going to start planning to move out and away from any area with more then 10k people.
I just can't stand how people think and watching the rat race and our culture slowly degrading and peoples general attitude towards each other.
On top of it all I just love being in nature. It's more relaxing. It feels better.
Anyone else been starting to feel this way?
originally posted by: Expat888
a reply to: Shoujikina
Raise my own food .. catch fish from the river . still keep in better shape than kids half my age with my daily practice of iajutsu along with taiji .. have no need nor use for all the modern "conveniences" and dont need or want all the useless rubbish people think they need to survive. Even less use for politicians or leaders of any type .
Am able to fix everything I have out here . nearest thing to civilization are a few local hmong villages a good days walk through the jungle no roads out here.
Will stick to my solitude and the tranquillity out here away from the idiocy of so-called "civilization" .
originally posted by: Expat888
a reply to: milomilo
Pffth .. out here in the border regions were left to ourselves as the surrounding countries consider it too much trouble to bother with us out here. aside from monsoon season get ok signal out here on mobile.
What they gonna do ? Bend my tags and force me to take my commission back ? lost my tags long ago ..
Besides theres still a few places in the world where that cesspool called civilization has no authority.
originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: onequestion
The only way to escape it, is to be a hermit/recluse like me!
I live in a very small rural area, and let me tell you, I hate being around people! Sure, living in a city just compounds the fact that you will run into more insane lemmings than in a less populated area. But the ONLY way to escape the insanity is to be isolated from everyone!
Until you are prepared to do that, it doesn't matter where you move too. People have become.............I don't know the word to use at the moment...........
EDIT: Just be prepared though! To be like me gets you labeled with the illness of "Anti Social Behavioral Disorder"!
originally posted by: milomilo
originally posted by: Expat888
a reply to: milomilo
Pffth .. out here in the border regions were left to ourselves as the surrounding countries consider it too much trouble to bother with us out here. aside from monsoon season get ok signal out here on mobile.
What they gonna do ? Bend my tags and force me to take my commission back ? lost my tags long ago ..
Besides theres still a few places in the world where that cesspool called civilization has no authority.
you should do what others who really hate civilization did, cut off your internet connection , if you cannot do that then you are not ready to face the solitude of wilderness
originally posted by: milomilo
originally posted by: Expat888
a reply to: milomilo
Pffth .. out here in the border regions were left to ourselves as the surrounding countries consider it too much trouble to bother with us out here. aside from monsoon season get ok signal out here on mobile.
What they gonna do ? Bend my tags and force me to take my commission back ? lost my tags long ago ..
Besides theres still a few places in the world where that cesspool called civilization has no authority.
you should do what others who really hate civilization did, cut off your internet connection , if you cannot do that then you are not ready to face the solitude of wilderness
originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
a reply to: MagesticEsoteric
Lucky for you. Be great to wake up and see that.
Unfortunately I live in London and at the moment can't get out.
originally posted by: Fylgje
I'm not speaking for Expat888, but I'm assuming that The thing with people like Expat888 and me is that the internet is only a tool. It's not a necessity for survival. It's to keep our fingers on the pulse, so to speak, not to mention, to feed our minds.
I too have pretty much cut myself off other than in a few areas. I love it. My family loves it. I too can fix everything on my land. I live off the land. I could support my family from here on out if the world stopped. I think moving into the boonies would do a lot of people a lot of good but they won't give it a chance.
originally posted by: ahnggk
Forgive me for being religious but in the Christian Bible, God forbids people living together in large numbers (Tower of Babel incident)
And in New Testament, Jesus said not to go the ways of nations/people living together.
It's ironic that most Christians do no know these things in the Bible!
Cities create many social and environmental problems. There's a pretty good reason why people tend to get out of town during weekends - because that's how it's supposed to be!
The only most important reason why people stay in cities is for money which the mass media helped to make people overly dependent on it through unnecessary expenditures.
People used to be not as materialistic as today and it worked for us then.