Hello.
Over the last week I've been mulling over an offer I received from a friend of a close relative. He lives on a wooded couple of acres 2 min away from a beach, been there for decades and knows everyone.
The offer is as follows: move to a cabin on his property, work part time for his business and have a free run to build and grow as much garden as I want. It's something I've wanted to do for a while and have even done stretches of it during last summer.
My niche technical trade I've been plying for the last 8 years would however have to take a bit of a backseat. I have about 600k at 33 years old chugging along in index funds so I'm not necessarily jumping into the void. Expenses would be minimal and barter, whether labor or product, is quite lively in the area.
The area I'm thinking of moving to has piles of retirees and not a whole lot of nightlife. Im in my mid 30s and have generally had very minimal success with women. In effect, making this lifestyle change to semi-rural green thumb would further cement me on a mgtow path. Personally ive never really used that label, but figure that at some point you have to be realistic with what you are to yourself. I do not want to marry in NA due to predatory laws and my boorishness is another nail in the coffin.
Have a married friend with 2 kids that thinks this is a childish flight of fancy. But I'm sick of cities and want to live on the cheap, fish in the untouched coastline and build subterranean greenhouses by hand. It puts me further on the path of no legacy(kids), but I wasn't getting anywhere in that regard from where I am now anyway.
Tell me if I sound crazy for wanting to live a Richard Proenneke life.
Thank you for your time.
egionwooded 6mo ago
That's what I was thinking, too. According to dordle the results of the bulk of the subreddit's searches, the majority of users eventually received a reply to their texts whether they were positive or negative.
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dongking 1y ago
That's way too early to hang up the gloves and give up on the idea of family life and women.
If you have little to no experience with women, I would recommend to correct that rather than hiding away on some rural farm all by yourself.
With that kind of capital and young age, why not take out like 25-50k and go travel South America or Asia for a year instead? You'll meet plenty of women, new friends and get some great life experience.
You can probably even work remote to some extent so you won't even break the bank.
Typo-MAGAshiv 1 1y ago
What do you want?
Brushpile37 1y ago
I want to grow aromatics and edible plants, have a small pantry, have a pile of different berry bushes to brew with, perhaps dabble in distilling if I get enough yield.
In the meantime do interesting projects such as build a semi-subterrenean greenhouse to grow something exotic like pomegranate trees, have a full compost cycle that involves biochar and a few chickens. Apparently a bunch of people in the area already are doing similar stuff. Carpentry, sewing, mushroom growing, maybe even some forging if the cotenants welder friend has a forge and anvil.
The town is about 1.5 hrs away from a massive overpriced metro city so I'm not necessarily hiding on a farm. It's a property that cannot be developed because it's locked down as a part of an agricultural green belt. The guy I would be a co-tenant with has been renting it from the owners for the last 20 years and maintaining it in a livable but rustic state and they have an understanding. I doubt I'd be there in 20 years but will get lat least a few years of growing, meeting and trading labor with neighbors and doing all sorts of homestead stuff while being relatively close to civilization. COL would be dirt cheap since the accomodations are really rustic.
I can't work remotely anyway, my job is a technical oilfield job and there is generally piles of work to be had. Only question is whether you want to do it. I could stay partially involved in my trade by doing spring/fall plant turnarounds so that I'm not dependent on the growing or the retirement area economy to survive.
Another bonus is that my parents and siblings live in that nearby metro. I wouldn't be burning rent money like I do when I visit for 3 months in the summer.