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To be honest if I were to become a hermit, I would go live in middle of a forest. Then one can be alone AND enjoy fresh air & nature with no people around. At t
by weweweoo 3y ago
To be honest if I were to become a hermit, I would go live in middle of a forest. Then one can be alone AND enjoy fresh air & nature with no people around. At this point lots of rural places have adequate internet connection for remote work & any entertainment needs.
Cities are kind of pointless if you don't enjoy participating in live activities with other people. Just worse housing at higher price.
- kwhitefoot 3y agoCities provide all the services that a hermit needs in order to live a comfortable life. The forest does not.
- porkbeer 3y agoNot with that attitude. We have survived for millenia with most humans never seeing a city.
- csomar 3y agoI actually think we survived in communities/cities for longer. We lost our rough traits (ie: lots of hair, thick skin, etc...) compared to the rest of apes. So we must have been inside homes for a very long time.
- defrost 3y agoThat only really applies to cold climates at best. Here's the theatrical trailer of Ten Canoes (2006) by Rolf de Heer with modern actors, many of whom are a generation or less from living traditionally without permanent homes, long houses or anything westerners would consider as "inside", retelling a story from their oral history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH_MY8FJuYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH_MY8FJuYo
- squigz 3y agoMost humans have historically lived in some kind of community - be it a city, a town, or a village, the point is the same: a community can provide more services that a single person living in the forest can't.
- neurostimulant 3y agoSurvive, yes. But survive in comfort? Perhaps not.
- csomar 3y agoYou can get delivery in some parts of the Balinese forest. Internet is Okay.