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Snowboards, kayaks, boats, snowmobiles, guns, snowshoes... none of those are cheap. Here's what actually happens if you move north for 12 months: you go to wor

Snowboards, kayaks, boats, snowmobiles, guns, snowshoes... none of those are cheap. Here's what actually happens if you move north for 12 months: you go to work at a job.

douche 11y ago
Although you could set yourself up pretty well with second-hand stuff for a month's rent in San Francisco.
grecy 11y ago
> Snowboards, kayaks, boats, snowmobiles, guns, snowshoes... none of those are cheap. I bought everything used, and I rent/borrow the snowmobiles and quads because my $400 Subaru won't pull them, and they're too expensive for me. Also keep in mind you only need one of each of those things, drop the plural, we're not interested in consuming for the sake of it. I would guess I spent around $5000 on gear for my "Northern Life", and I actually just sold all of it for basically the same prices I paid. > Here's what actually happens if you move north for 12 months: you go to work at a job. If you want to keep consuming and living your "Southern" life, then yes, you're right. Or, you live the Northern way, as follows: Borrow a chainsaw and trailer off a friend for a case of beer, and put in a few hard weekends getting your own firewood. Cost of heating for the year = $0. Borrow, or buy ONE used rifle, spend a week hunting and get yourself 500lbs+ of local, organic meat. Cost of bought meat per year = $0. For a few hundred bucks throw a couple of solar panels on your roof connected to some old car batteries. Get rid of your TV, and pay almost nothing for electricity for the year. Get some fishing gear for $75 and hit Alaksa whenever the salmon are running to put away tens of pounds of salmon. Grow a bunch of vegetables yourself. etc. etc. You can rent a nice cabin up here for ~$500/mo, and (for example) registering a car is $35/year, and my insurance is $325/year, so you save a ton of money there. Drive something with good mileage, distances are big up here. As you can see, pretty quickly your expenses are very, very low, meaning it's quite possible to hardly go to work at all.

Snowboards, kayaks, boats, snowmobiles, guns, snowshoes... none of those are cheap. Here's what actually happens if you move north for 12 months: you go to work at a job.

douche 11y ago

Although you could set yourself up pretty well with second-hand stuff for a month's rent in San Francisco.

grecy 11y ago

> Snowboards, kayaks, boats, snowmobiles, guns, snowshoes... none of those are cheap. I bought everything used, and I rent/borrow the snowmobiles and quads because my $400 Subaru won't pull them, and they're too expensive for me. Also keep in mind you only need one of each of those things, drop the plural, we're not interested in consuming for the sake of it. I would guess I spent around $5000 on gear for my "Northern Life", and I actually just sold all of it for basically the same prices I paid. > Here's what actually happens if you move north for 12 months: you go to work at a job. If you want to keep consuming and living your "Southern" life, then yes, you're right. Or, you live the Northern way, as follows: Borrow a chainsaw and trailer off a friend for a case of beer, and put in a few hard weekends getting your own firewood. Cost of heating for the year = $0. Borrow, or buy ONE used rifle, spend a week hunting and get yourself 500lbs+ of local, organic meat. Cost of bought meat per year = $0. For a few hundred bucks throw a couple of solar panels on your roof connected to some old car batteries. Get rid of your TV, and pay almost nothing for electricity for the year. Get some fishing gear for $75 and hit Alaksa whenever the salmon are running to put away tens of pounds of salmon. Grow a bunch of vegetables yourself. etc. etc. You can rent a nice cabin up here for ~$500/mo, and (for example) registering a car is $35/year, and my insurance is $325/year, so you save a ton of money there. Drive something with good mileage, distances are big up here. As you can see, pretty quickly your expenses are very, very low, meaning it's quite possible to hardly go to work at all.