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Best place to become a hermit? #6324645
09/13/18 11:14 PM
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Hello. Through the years on the Wilderness Trapping page people will dream and question about moving to Alaska. I pondered it pretty heavily 15 years ago. The Alaska guys all mostly say it isn't cracked up to what people invision. The wilderness areas of Alaska, CO, NM, WY, MT seem to be chalked full of wanna be hippies, folks leaching off the govt., liberals, over priced land/houses/cost of living and in general maybe not what some us are dreaming of. I am not looking to move as I never will. It has got me thinking though of where are the best places to live that some of these younger dreamers long for? The requirements are: wildlife, affordable, few people, very few of the previously mentioned people, and ability to feel like one is out in the wilderness/sticks/prairie. I haven't traveled all over but what comes to mind to me is Western KS, Western NE, eastern MT, parts of the Dakotas, very select parts of the AR and MO Ozarks, and Eastern CO. Never been there but parts of ME and NY Adirondacks? Russia? What are your thoughts?

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324661
09/13/18 11:28 PM
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Drove through West Texas along the Canadian River last winter. I could live there. I also love the Sandhills in Western Nebraska. Anywhere with coyotes, bobcats and big ranches for me.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324713
09/14/18 01:24 AM
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There are places in Idaho that fit the bill for what you want. Stanley basin and surrounding area, or whitebird/Lucile/Riggans.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324714
09/14/18 01:35 AM
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Get someone with a bushplane to drop you off anywhere between Winisk and Fort Albany.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324716
09/14/18 01:44 AM
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If you can handle hot summers... MS for sure. Lived here 4 years now and not had to meet a person I didn't wish to. When I lived in IL, I trapped a WMA in Iowa and felt like a frontierswoman because it was so desolate. Now I feel that same way every single day. It is heaven on earth, if you can handle the climate.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324734
09/14/18 04:03 AM
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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324740
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If you like the southwest desert theres some desolate places there. I was gonna buy some property not too far from moapa nevada and collect old junk before i met my wife and she set me straight.. I dont know why but the desert always cleared my mind.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324748
09/14/18 05:47 AM
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out where Uncle Bulletbox lives there is a LOT of country that hasn't had a footprint on it for a long time if ever. You better be one tough hombre though if you move out that way and want to stay off of the radar.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324755
09/14/18 06:00 AM
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there are still a few places in the u p of Michigan that a person could get away from people if they really wanted to but I found most want to build a road to there place an if you build a road they will come

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324826
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Hermit in place. Just do not socialize, attend any functions, or shop in the community that you live in or answer your door. Become the Grouchy old guy that all of the neighbor kids made up stories about and were scared of when you were a kid.

Or...Do like I did and move into a small town and have a night job that is a commute.

We lived there 10 years and several people in town thought I was new in town when we moved away.
I liked it that way.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324838
09/14/18 08:20 AM
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Illinois- everyone is leaving. You could probably find a house to squat in for a while if you wanted


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324841
09/14/18 08:26 AM
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If I had the ability to move I believe it would be to Wyoming or an area in Arkansas off the beaten path. Someday maybe.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324844
09/14/18 08:36 AM
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Northwest Angle of MN. Kind of spendy, but road access through Canada or by water.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324897
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There are areas of North Eastern North Dakota that would foot the bill as long as you aren't partial to trees. Most of the towns are shriveled up like a weaned sows teats. Can drive many miles on the county roads before meeting another vehicle.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324932
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I am some what off the grid in the bogs of WI. The only drawback here is all the meth heads and crack addicts you have to contend with. The will steal anything.

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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324938
09/14/18 11:54 AM
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my house,don't let the dogs scare ya.









Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324942
09/14/18 11:59 AM
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I knew you'd jump in pcr2. Way north Pa can be very remote. Lots of stuff to trap and hunt. I am too young to move there now but plan to when I get kicked out of the house. Wouldn't leave PA for almost anything.


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Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324979
09/14/18 12:54 PM
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Met a fellow in NM that drives 55 miles each way to take his child to meet a school bus in Winston.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6324995
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I'll tell you a little story about when me and the boys visited Nebraska on Vacation. The boys were probably in about 3rd and 5th grade. We were headed to the Black Hills for vacation and me wanting to see the Sandhills of Nebraska we headed west on I-80 and then North at Cody. We were going to stay the night at a lake up by Valentine. As I'm kind of cheap and simple and it being just me and my boys we were just camping out of the stock trailer. Any way we turned off the Highway on to a single lane blacktop road in the middle of nowhere to get to the lake we were staying at. Now at this turn off there was an old post with the names of about six ranches and the miles to each one of them which me being a cowboy really peeked my interest.Now my boys had never seen a single lane blacktop rode, nor had I for that matter, and it took me a lot of talking to convince my boys we weren't headed down someone's driveway. We only saw two people in probably 20 or so miles of that road. One was a cowboy with a dog box on the back for coyote dogs and another was a rancher out in the hay field putting up hay. That rancher was on a tractor at least 300 hundred yards out in the field. He waved real big at us when we passed and he was so far away I stuck my arm out the window so he could see me and waved back. Now my youngest looked at me kind of strange asked "dad did you know him”? I answered no I didn't, so his next question was why did he wave at us then? I said son they are just happy to see another human being in these parts I guess. Told my boys I was moving up there when they were grown.

Re: Best place to become a hermit? [Re: TurkeyTime] #6325097
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Went through KS years ago never seen a place that most of the time you could not see a yard light for miles going down the highway! LOL


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