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You could get pretty close if you wanted to
by qgin 3y ago
You could get pretty close if you wanted to
- vouaobrasil 3y agoNot really. There are very few wild areas left, especially in warmer areas. Much of the natural resources of these areas are contaminated such as water. Natural areas are often government-managed or privately owned. Gone are the days where you could wander off into the wild and just live as some of the indigineous tribes used to.
- bombcar 3y agoYou could live as long as you wanted on BLM land, as long as you kept moving. Of course, you'd probably die pretty quickly, but nobody would stop you. The chance of living on a proverbial paradisal desert island isn't available anymore; those places are desirable!
- stevenwoo 3y agoNomadland documents the writer and an entire subpopulation (working, not going to die) moving along BLM lands to seasonal agricultural jobs and warehouse jobs and National Park service jobs, it sounds kind of exhausting and precarious, not very different from struggling in a single day job.
- hirvi74 3y ago> BLM What does this mean? I doubt it stands for the political acronym that first comes to my mind.
- monknomo 3y agoBureau of Land Management
- qgin 3y agoSure, but if you wanted to detach from the modern economy and trappings of modernity like supply chains and life-extending healthcare, you could save up some money, get some remote, off-grid land, and live a subsistence life. It’s not free, but startup costs would be less than a year of city living.