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Unfortunately we’re living in a world that no longer has much unowned/unsettled land. Everything has been bought and hoarded by the ultra wealthy.
that was already true in 1492.
the land wasn’t “unsettled” before the colonizers arrived.
Well yes, but obviously there was some point in history where that wasn’t true. You just need to look back further than modern history.
Where it was “owned” by native peoples. Even though they didn’t think of it the way we think of that term, it was their land.
They’re referring to the America’s before it was colonized by the settlers from Asia.
Ah, right. Well those assholes killed all the giant sloths and American lions so I’m not letting them off the hook.
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i don’t like most people. i don’t like clutter. i don’t like distractions. i don’t like hassles. i don’t need much. i’m with OP.
And this is why you have car-centric infrastructure and suburbia.
Pretty sure that’s a post 1900 invention. Trains were the hot stuff in the 1800s
I live in the country.
It’s never peace and quiet. It’s constantly filled with the noise of shitty neighbors blasting music at full volume cause they don’t understand that sound travels. Then there are the gunshots every damn morning from dipshit shooting in their field. I’m constantly worried one day a missed shot is gonna come through my window.
Let’s not even get started on when they brun the fucking fields (sugar cane) and the entire area is covered is astringent smoke and ash.
Living in town, people understood that neighbors exist and at least attempted to be considerate about it; plus, I never had to worry about catching strays. Also, life was so much nicer, not needing to fucking drive everywhere just to do basic things or go get something to eat. Being able to walk or catch a bus was so much more convenient and stress-free than needing to drive myself. I was able to have a lot more free time since I wasn’t spending it on an overlong commute just to get anything done.
56 countries and counting. No I am not couch or hostel surfing. Full time employee with about 1.5 months of vacay, so we travel a lot to every corner of the world. It’s different looking at things in YouTube vs real life.
Then you start talking about colonizing space and people flip the fuck out
we should totally leave the earth and go to the moon and mars and all that, I just don’t want Elon leading us there. And ofc there is gunna be environmental effects from all those rockets, but ngl if most of humanity left the earth, the earth might be better off
Yea, but like locust, we’d be saving earth and dooming dozens of other planets.
yeah but there’s infinitely many other planets though.
Sounds like you just answered the trolley problem ;)
I live about 15 miles outside of a small town (~20k) in a trailer park on the side of a mountain. Been here 6 months and it is AMAZING. Super quiet at night, can see the stars and it has a great view of the adjacent mountains nearby.
It’ll most likely be awhile, but the plan is to save for a small piece of property with a similar rural location. In my teens and twenties, I used to think that I’d live in the big city, but as I got into my late 30s I couldn’t stand being in the city much. I don’t mind being able to visit occasionally, but city life just isn’t for me anymore. Too big, busy and noisy. Give me a nice, peaceful spot where I can read and enjoy nature quietly.
Do you get around by walking the old school way, or do you use these newfangled automobiles that are killing the planet?
Well, in these parts we ride bears to and from places. They’re like big, furry tractors :D
I relate to this a lot. Grew up in a small town, excitedly moved into a big city when I went to college, then bounced around cities for work for a while, and now that I’m married and have kids, I keep dreaming about living further out where we’d have more space and peace.
Its always a good idea to consult your local fat checker to verify these claims.
my fat is prettyy high, sadly, although these lads had higher fats
Me, Local Fact Checker (who is also very tired and lazy): “seems fine”
I have been working for many years to find the right balance for me.
Currently, by day I am a software engineer, but in my off time I am basically a recreational farmer — as in keeper of animals, not gardening. Though, plants are often involved in service of the animals.
I live in suburbia and am pretty ideally located as far as local resources and infrastructure. So I brought a little bit of the wilderness to me. Currently spending a bunch of time on my koi pond.
proof that capitalism kills people. And everyone has a price.
Do people here know who this Fat Electrician guy is? Because I’m vaguely familiar with him and his YouTube channel and my instinct is that the majority of us here on lemmy were rather the opposite of him at 15 (libertarian phase or some other antisocial ignorance) and now around 30+ years old the disposition is much more ‘the modern city is in so many ways a marvel of cooperation and achievement.’
From my encounters he is a ‘society bad, the end’ type and not at all a ‘capitalism bad’ type. I guess that is lumpen proletariat? Anyway I’d love to be proven wrong but I was already too red flagged and turned off to dig further into his content.
If you weren’t rich you couldn’t benefit much from “most advanced civilization” at the time. most of the them were really poor and desperate and gave everything just for ticket across the Atlantic with the hope for a better life.
If thats what you think happened, then you dont get it. readsettlers.org
50 y/o: get the fuck out of my cave.
Didn’t the Puritans leave England because they really hated the Catholics and wanted to change the Church of England to not be as Catholic but the government of the day told them to fuck off?
The Puritans weren’t the only or even primary colonists, but yes that was their motivation. That and their barbaric faith practices were quite literally illegal… in medieval England of all places. Children weren’t even considered people yet but how the Puritans treated them was bad enough to be made illegal.
Yea, kinda.
More that the Puritans wanted everyone else to confirm to their stricter standards and ethics, and the people at the time were fed up and ran them out.
Also they hated taxes. Basically libertarians with a different name.
