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Living in the forest is illegal.
by eudamoniac 11mo ago
Living in the forest is illegal.
- derektank 11mo agoYou can camp indefinitely on BLM forest land as long as you’re willing to move your camp site every two weeks
- pclmulqdq 11mo agoMost nomadic cultures did not move this fast. You have to be spending a lot of time moving if you do this.
- marssaxman 11mo agoYou're not going to grow any food or hunt anything that way, though. It's not the same.
- derektank 11mo agoA state small game hunting license is very cheap
- marssaxman 11mo agoAnd very limited.
- WalterBright 11mo agoTV tells me that hunting wabbits is not very productive.
- antod 11mo agoEspecially the wascally ones.
- jandrewrogers 11mo agoNot in the US. There is a lot of BLM land if you want to live a nomadic lifestyle in the middle of nowhere.
- lukan 11mo agoFor hunting in a way you want? Not having to pay taxes? Raise your children in the nomadic hunter livestyle? I think schooling (and lots of other things) is mandatory in the US as well. And child protection service etc. exist. So it might be easier in the US to cosplay as a forest nomad for some time (and I know some people did it as eremits for a bit longer) but a real nomadic livestyle means living with other people together in a tribe. That does not work (just the rule to move camp after 2 weeks prevents that).
- bombcar 11mo agoRead into it; it happens, and CPS isn’t usually involved until it’s well into horror-show territory. It’s usually around a cult or similar; we don’t have much in the way of hereditary nomadic but even those do exist.
- lukan 11mo agoI think I did read about it and met folks who are into that. I have never been in the US, though, but the main complaint I got is pretty much, state laws make it impossible. But I am open for reading suggestions.
- bombcar 11mo agoThere’s what is explicitly legal, there is what you can get away with, and there is moving between jurisdictions before they even know you’re there. The US is large and if you keep your head down and homeschool to some level of competence I bet you could go many generations- especially if you were willing to blend in as necessary.
- jandrewrogers 11mo ago