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BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3709 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Could you live 'off the grid'?

I plan to live off the grid once I finish paying off my student loans. Unfortunately, I realized that dream after I had committed too much to college. Check out The Man Who Quit Money.





zaylea  ·  3709 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Years ago, a family friend up and gave all his stuff away, and then moved to Hawaii to live in the forest in a loin cloth. My aunt went to visit him periodically (he'd go into town sometimes.) Eventually, he disappeared and no one could find him. It was eventually assumed that he got bit by a snake or something and died. Living off the land and without money and such is heavily romanticized and not all it's cut out to be.

Student loans bum me out. I've thought about things like living abroad, or moving out to the country etc, but I have to stay put, close the city, making as much as I can, for at least 5 years, if I don't want to spend the next decade or more paying them off.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3709 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If I die, I die. If I'm bit by a snake, I'd nourish the snake and all of its offspring.