Plus a plumbed toilet and air conditioning.
A composting toilet is all I want and need.
- No clogging
- No splashing
- No waste of water
- No smell
I always hate to use a plumbed toilet when we visit friends or family.
Do u mean 2 sticks and a hole in the ground type of outhouse? 1 stick to put your pants on and second one to fight off bears while u poop?
I disagree but hell if this didn’t make me laugh like a mofo lmao
Okay but that’s incompatible with my beloved bidet.
We basically have this in Ireland. Only instead of a log cabin its an old cottage in the middle of nowhere.
An old cottage with a gigabit connection.
Nah the internet sucks no matter where you live. That cottage with a closed network or something like Secure Scuttlebutt/Manyverse in a little village would be cool though. The town library can have gigabit internet (for downloading media) and a shared local Jellyfin (& calibre, Navidrome, audiobookshelf, etc) server that can be accessed by anyone in town.
Want to play Live Service or online games? To the library. Publish your website or music album or artwork outside of the local loop? To the library. Online classes? To the library.
My gaming rig weighs like 90lb, I’ll be running CAT6 to the library thanks
Or just keep your rig at the library. Makes it so you’re around when the library LAN parties start.
I would prefer the cul de sac of 8 close friends, but still surronded in nature.
and lan party cables?
I think the cottage being a short/medium bike ride away from friends/the city would be a perfect middle ground.
For me and my friends it would be a bunch of small close islands, and then one larger community island in the middle.
I’m thinking something like in Sweden’s Skärgård, where there are lots of such islands.
I would like that, but with internet, and lan parties.
Yeah my Father in Law basically has this… but significantly nicer (4bed, 4bath, full kitchen, running spring water, off-grid solar+batteries), up a mountain, surrounded by pine trees, with StarLink internet.
It’s amazing when we can go visit for a week or 2
Wish granted. Enjoy mosquitoes.
I was going g to comment how I have the thing pictured, but that it comes with several real drawbacks. Not just mosquitoes either. Imagine having to buy and operate your own snow plow to leave the house in winter. Or buying groceries in bulk because the nearest Walmart is a three hour drive.
May - blackflies
June - mosquitoes and blackflies
July - mosquitoes and deer flies
August - mosquitoes, deer flies, and horse flies
September - All of the above, and start to worry about stuff freezing.
October - Whew, I can finally work outside
November - Start the fire, and keep it going until April.
Ok where I live it’s :
Jan - snow and first sunrise of the year
Feb - snow
Mar - snow
April - snow
May - snow followed by two weeks of thaw, last sunset for 2 months and one week of spring
Jun - warm but no bugs
Jul - where has all my blood gone (mosquitoes and horsefly) sun starts setting again
Aug - same exsanguination issues as July
SEP - too cold for bugs lol
Oct - snow
Nov - Snow last sunrise of the year
Dec - snow
To be fair, you do live in the Arctic.
It’s the best place. Although tbh for the last few years, there’s been a lot of rain mixed into the snow, because the climate is fucked.
That’s terrifying…
It’s certainly less than optimal.
Totally agree. But how much those drawbacks affect you also depends a lot on where you are located geographically.
All would be solved by me building my own metro line from the shack to the nearest city.
And deadites.
Once you get used to them and if you live north of the Malaria regions, mosquitos aren’t such a big deal. If you keep getting stung, eventually you will barely notice.
I live in arctic Scandinavia, the mosquitos will fucking exsanguinate your ass.
I’ve lived out in the rural before. I’d only do it again if there was a pharmacy that was open more than 9-5 mon-fri within a reasonable driving distance, a grocery store, and at least one good restaurant close by (it’s nice to be removed from other but boy does cooking for yourself every meal get old fast).
I went and had a pile of kids so I have to do it everyday. Oh my god I’m tired.
And what was I thinking?
Every time you figure out what’s for dinner bam you gotta do it again.
We have to kids and cook every day. We have about 12 dishes we cycle through, plus a new dish every couple of weeks. Plan for a week and shop for it accordingly.
Before the kids i would go to the local supermarket, that, regardless of the city i lived in, never was more than 10 Minutes away by foot. I’d figure out what i was feeling like cooking once i was
But it is nice to have other options, like ordering food, for the very lazy and very stressful days. This i would give up for a nice place in nature though.
I don’t understand this at all. I go out to eat like 4 times a year, and that’s only on long car trips I end up stopping at a fast-food joint. I was amazed when I found out city people think of McDonald’s as cheap food. Y’all must be made of money.
I’m not sure about the fast internet anymore. The internet is cancer and getting worse.
I did it for nearly 3 years with limited access.
You get over it eventually and start living life instead of watching other people live theirs.
I can’t wait to unplug again.
Why did you disconnect? Because of location or work or what?
A friend inherited off-grid property. I was already into the idea of homesteading and survivalism and had been building those skills sets for years. What started as a little bit of helping on the weekends turned into full time living. I didn’t think I could do it and it was hard.
But now I know what I’m capable of and how much nicer life is when you live it. I’ve been back in regular society for a few years and my phone is still on ‘do not disturb’ mode all the time.
‘do not disturb’ mode is a must. my brain can’t focus on any single activity if i constantly expect to be interrupted while doing it.
Yeah i have notifications silenced as they are a stupid distraction.
I have a tablet for work that I rarely use so I leave it for the kids to play on. Everytime i look at it there is hundreds of notifications from games they play. How are the kids meant to get anything done if they keep getting interrupted.
This right here. Just disappear into the woods and forget about the doomscroll in its entirety.
If one day you wake up in your cabin to a bright flash in the sky so be it, and least you had a good life.
I think you are confusing the internet with people.
If you consider corporations as people, yes.
corporations are not people themselves, but they are made of people.
slow internet is better, like slow food :D
You want Norway, Sweden and Finland. You can get fast internett pretty much anywhere and a large portion of the countries are just forest. I actually met a guy in Troms who is the only year round resident of an island that has two ferries a week if you book ahead of time and he has fast internett, as well as a lovely vegetable garden and a plentiful supply of fish.
Lived like that for a while (but with a working shower and not-so-fast internet). 10/10 would recommend. Will do again when I’m done with $CURRENT_LIFE_ISSUES.
Definitely not, my dream place to life is microdistrict with everything needed close.
I want this, but with an irrationally large Evil Dead esque cellar, for my hobbies.
I don’t need it to be big. Just a small metal box with no entry for insects please.
You can keep it optimally dirty to avoid some insects (the ones who avoid mammallian products) and only deal with the ones which seek human smells/other molecules.
Those are the worst ones! Lmao
This sound fun for like 3 months. Like I’ll get some random medical issue and then have to go to the hospital. Like what if I sprain my ankle, what if the cabin got termite infestation and I need to repair it. At some point I’m gonna need civilization
That’s why the cabin is propped up on the rocks
I see houses propped up by concrete pillars so it’s just a frontier way of leveling off the house
Lack of ground contact also deters termites.
That’s what the internet is for
You don’t need to go to the hospital for a sprained ankle
Yeah I was trying to think of some minor injury that woul require attention. Like your chopping food and you cut yourself or you step on a rusty nail. I could go up in severity but the point is you will need medical attention or access to medicine
idk about the internet. kinda makes me sad these days
Internet’s not the only infrastructure you need.
Speak for yourself, carbon lifeform
( /j )
“I can farm my own food”
Not with that tree cover and acidic soil.
A well, septic tank, and solar can replace water, sewer, and electrical utilities. ATVs, dirt bikes, and snowmobiles (depending on location) make roads unnecessary. What other infrastructure do you need?
at some point, you may need an hospital and an ambulance.
You don’t understand actual honest to god hermits then.
My wisdom tooth is going to kill me because I’d rather die than have someone touch me. I’m not kidding.
slow painful death is bad, yes. but there is also fast painful death, such as appendicitis.
I had appendicitis and barely noticed. I just felt like I had a mild case of gas for 3 days. I was lucky that I was with my ex at the time and she got worried, otherwise I might be dead and would barely have cared.
But then the year after that I broke my back and also only cared to go to the doctor after one month, so maybe I’m not the best example
Yes, but even living across the street from a hospital doesn’t guarantee you will have access to medical care. Plenty of people who live in the city can’t afford an ambulance or hospital stay.
US hell hole…
Depending on age you’ll need medicine and heat/AC. Fridge or some way to preserve food( yeah there’s ways to do that without electricity). Guess most of this is under electric utilities, but it’s hard to get consistent electricity and batteries are expensive
For just running a fridge and lights you don’t need too much solar/battery. They have 12v compressors now that are pretty efficient and blow absorption fridges out of the water in cooling. AC is a beast though. No getting around that. Heat could be wood, Propane gche or whatever. Not electric.
I did see a guy make a cooler with a cistern, pump and radiator. Water in the cistern/well is cold most of the year. Guess you just have to drain it in the winter, but yeah I’d say batteries can be a money sink.
Also I did kill a lot of batteries by hooking them in parallel to a bad 12v battery, buuut that’s just me saying battery system can go for a lot
Need or want? Build it by a stream you can boil the water and you have fish, shit in the woods no need for a toilet.
It is if you live on the coast. Boats will get you anywhere worth going to.
Can you actually order a boat ride or boat delivery online? Is there boat Uber now?
If you live in the wilderness, you should have a boat.
Edit: yes I’m pretty sure I can order a boat for delivery, but if not you can always make something.
