Re: Best place to become a hermit?
[Re: TurkeyTime]
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09/14/18 05:14 PM
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Gary Benson
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I was in Alaska 7 yrs ago. Saw LOTS of places where someone came north to live the dream, then left a pile of crap and went back home. I like the Sandhills of Nebraska just fine. I can find people if I need to talk to someone.
Life ain't supposed to be easy.
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
[Re: TurkeyTime]
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09/14/18 07:57 PM
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He is a theif.Not what I would consider self reliant by any stretch.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
[Re: Mike Cope]
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09/15/18 11:25 PM
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Mike in A-town
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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. Yep. I've lived in this small town of 1000 or so for almost 27 years... The last 14 in my little house. After I graduated high school, went to work, had kids, etc... I fell out of contact with most of the town folk I knew. It just happens. When I tell people where I'm from someone will invariably say, "Oh, well, you know so-and-so." Nope. Never met them. I gave up the folly of youth, drama, and never did run around and party much. You learn to disappear in a crowd that way. Hermitage is a state of mind. Lol Mike
One man with a gun may control 100 others who have none.
Vladimir Lenin
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
[Re: Boco]
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09/16/18 08:30 PM
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Nsheeh
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He is a theif.Not what I would consider self reliant by any stretch. yes he was he broke into our families camp and many others to survive albeit it takes a strong tough individual to do the duration he did but he still stole many many thing to get through
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
[Re: TurkeyTime]
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05/02/19 08:55 AM
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danny clifton
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why do you need to steal to become a hermit? or trespass? could be a hermit anyplace rural. if you don't have any utilities, or insurance or a cell phone, have a place for a garden and a few goats, you wont need much money. trap a little, dig a few wild roots, be rude to anyone who comes around so they stay away.
knew one when I was a kid in Colorado. walked 7 miles one way to the post office every week or so to get mail. sometimes bought something at the store the post office was in. was living at an old mine. the owners let him live there and paid him a few bucks to keep trespassers run off.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
[Re: TurkeyTime]
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05/02/19 09:22 AM
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white17
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A lot of good places. Wylee came up with the term I was looking for=desolate. I believe many of the traditionally desolate places that people sought (AK, CO,MT) now have one or more of the following: high cost of living, liberals, druggies, and/or high real estate. I have never been through the Sandhills but that was my main choice from talking to people that lived there. There are a lot of places I have never seen, but I can't think of anywhere in the L48 that I would consider desolate except for the big cities. "Desolate" to me. is a state of mind. Where I first homesteaded in AK there were no liberals, druggies, or high priced real estate. It hasn't changed in those regards. The big problem a would-be hermit would encounter is, there is no land available to buy. I think TRAPR is onto something when he mentions Riggins or Whitebird, ID. Stanley basin is beautiful but pretty overrun with touristas in the summer
Mean As Nails
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
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05/02/19 09:31 AM
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A lot of good places. Wylee came up with the term I was looking for=desolate. I believe many of the traditionally desolate places that people sought (AK, CO,MT) now have one or more of the following: high cost of living, liberals, druggies, and/or high real estate. I have never been through the Sandhills but that was my main choice from talking to people that lived there. You have mentioned Co in a couple of your posta, and that would be absolutly the last place I'd want to go! Can't trap, the weed growers would be under your feet all the time! Nice remote areas, but the laws there are straight out of commiefornia! There are remote places there too!
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Re: Best place to become a hermit?
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05/02/19 03:16 PM
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Dirt
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Plenty of Alaska has cover. Problem is smoke rises and planes can see it. Back a few years ago, I would drive by one of the local hermit's place, and if smoke was coming out of his chimney, I knew he was still alive. I never stopped to talk or check on him. I respected his privacy. I checked on him all winter long in my own way.
Who is John Galt?
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