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You can go out in the middle of nowhere in Siberia and live like the Lykovs[1]. It's a very difficult life. Another alternative is being a yachty and living o

You can go out in the middle of nowhere in Siberia and live like the Lykovs[1]. It's a very difficult life. Another alternative is being a yachty and living on a boat and sailing to uninhabited islands. Mostly you can live undisturbed, but after a few years people will show up and bug you if it's part of a well organized country. There's the Chagos archipelago for example which is only visited by people who do open ocean sailing in the Indian Ocean. Yachties have set up a weird "lord of the flies" type village on one of the uninhabited islands. It's thousands of miles from anywhere that's not a British military base. SVDelos visited it on their trip around the world.[2] I heartily recommend watching SVDelos from the beginning. It is a great sailboat show that starts off as two brothers who set up to sail around the world. They eventually meet their wives and have kids, so it becomes less fun in the newest seasons. They eventually get drones, 4k cameras, solar panels, satellite internet and the video production quality steadily increases over the years, so it's also sort of a story of consumer tech progress. When they are sailing it's only a few hundred dollars a month for living expenses and I don't think they pay much in taxes being permanent tourists. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykov_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykov_family [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mSsQ4Smyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mSsQ4Smyg

freeAgent 3y ago
I like SV Delos, but they are very far from living cheaply, much less “for free.”
- narrator 3y ago
  They had an episode where they talked about how much it cost and it was only a few hundred bucks a month each when there were a couple people on the boat and they were in lower cost parts of the world. That's pretty cheap for the kind of lifestyle they live. Brady is extremely handy and good at everything involved in boat maintenance so that saves a lot of money. The lesson I learned watching that show is sailing around the world is for people who are very wealthy or very good at all aspects of boat maintenance. Especially when their water maker breaks in the middle of nowhere and they have to diagnose the problem and jerry rig something to make it work.
  - freeAgent 3y ago
    Yeah, for short bursts of time it can be a cheap lifestyle. But then you have times where you need tens of thousands of dollars of boat work (bear in mind their boat is 52’, not some “small” 30-footer like the Pardeys). They get a TON of stuff free or subsidized by followers (free cars, places to dock, places on land to live, TONS of expensive boat equipment…).

freeAgent 3y ago

I like SV Delos, but they are very far from living cheaply, much less “for free.”

narrator 3y ago
They had an episode where they talked about how much it cost and it was only a few hundred bucks a month each when there were a couple people on the boat and they were in lower cost parts of the world. That's pretty cheap for the kind of lifestyle they live. Brady is extremely handy and good at everything involved in boat maintenance so that saves a lot of money. The lesson I learned watching that show is sailing around the world is for people who are very wealthy or very good at all aspects of boat maintenance. Especially when their water maker breaks in the middle of nowhere and they have to diagnose the problem and jerry rig something to make it work.
- freeAgent 3y ago
  Yeah, for short bursts of time it can be a cheap lifestyle. But then you have times where you need tens of thousands of dollars of boat work (bear in mind their boat is 52’, not some “small” 30-footer like the Pardeys). They get a TON of stuff free or subsidized by followers (free cars, places to dock, places on land to live, TONS of expensive boat equipment…).