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It’s enough to make you want to go build a house on Walden Pond and live there alone forever.
by monochromatic 8y ago
It’s enough to make you want to go build a house on Walden Pond and live there alone forever.
- stephengillie 8y agoThe news mediums do a great job with the FUD. It's how they keep you watching their ads. Gotta stay in business somehow.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agohttps://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/famed-walden-pond-which-inspired-henry-david-thoreau-being-killed-n863381 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/famed-walden-pon... Nothing is sacred anymore.
- maxerickson 8y agoNot even metaphor.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoClearly.
- grecy 8y agoCome on up to Alaska/Yukon! You won't regret it. Even after living there for only 4 years it was always extremely jarring to go to Vancouver once a year and catch a train or bus with all the advertising on every surface, people buried on their phones, consumerism, pollution, etc.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago"X is a beautiful place with low population density and you can get away from most of the world's problems" is exactly the message you shouldn't be broadcasting if you want X to stay like that. I guess you get a little more leeway with the Yukon because it's so far away from major population centers.
- grecy 8y ago...and it's often past -40 I know what you're saying, but the phenomenal thing about the Yukon is that if people don't like the isolation, or the cold, or whatever, they simply leave. Not a person lives there that doesn't love it, and that is part of the reason it's fantastic. I have never heard a person complain about it, or talk about going somewhere else, or say "I wish I was in xyz right now".
- cbm-vic-20 8y agoThe real estate around Concord and Lincoln is quite expensive. And there is no "alone" there- Walden Pond is quite popular, all year 'round.
- monochromatic 8y agoMetaphorically. I wouldn’t really choose somewhere so famous for seclusion.