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I've lived on and off a semi-rural "squatter" community by ideological choice for around a year [0] (that experience helped _a lot_ later when i was homeless by

by orwin 2y ago

I've lived on and off a semi-rural "squatter" community by ideological choice for around a year [0] (that experience helped _a lot_ later when i was homeless by lack of resources, while i finished my engineering degree), i've probably never had as much fun as i did at the time. Learned juggling, guitar and basic human interactions i had trouble with at the time. We shared alcohol, games and stories with everyone who went to say hello, even cops at the time (it was after César but before 2016) [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAD_de_Notre-Dame-des-Landes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAD_de_Notre-Dame-des-Landes

ProllyInfamous 2y ago
Did you grow up in Loire-Atlantique..? or how did you discover this community? I probably couldn't "hack it" out in the wilderness of NAD, but always regret having not joined a hippie co-op (living situation) while in college [I once dated a gal living in one... it was so neat and inexpensive, but she was a sloot].
- orwin 2y ago
  Close by. I was in Nantes university (UFR) in 2009, failed to get my math bachelor degree in 2012 and took a gap year (i absolutely couldn't stand uni life anymore) where i lived between NDDL and youth camps as a counselor (also was part of "Les petits débrouillards" to teach kids science through experiments, but my expenses were barely covered to be totally honest, so i don't know if i could count this as a job).
  - ProllyInfamous 2y ago
    >failed to get my math bachelor degree I somehow completed my BS(chem) without ever taking a college math class, under a teaching scholarship. Then I dropped out of grad school, unprepared for reality. -- To where has your last decade enriched you?