/diy/ - Do It Yourself

dying

common sense mostly.

A slow painful death.

I love paying for an apartment im not living in
>lease

The fact that I don't live anywhere near Alaska

Cause I was homeless for three yrs, in that time I lived in the woods and came into town for job applications and to get some back up food, in case I was un able to bag a squirrel,fish, or other small animal. After all that, I much rather live in a house and just go out to camp.

>>384963
4chan

>>384994
/thread

>>384963
i'm in college currently

but once i graduate, i plan on spending a year or so, just hitchhiking around the US

I'm from Alaska. Being homeless in Alaska is something I'm thankful I've never experienced. I know someone who lived in a tent city in ketchikan in the summer back in the 90s. He didn't freeze (because summer, derr) but it was absolute squalor. Every winter, people who camp in the winter out of necessity die either due to hypothermia, alcohol poisoning, or suspicious murderlike circumstances.

If you go hide in the wilderness, you have to be really careful with food because there's bears. And there's also the freezing and wild swings between dark days and bright nights and the lack of access to medical care and fuck you, you better not be poaching.

Better to save up money and go with a homesteading plan. or a job so you can rent a little dry cabin for under 400/mo. It can be done, but I highly recommend an insulated, permanent shelter.

Because I'm better than that. It would be fun and I would survive...but I've got a lot more to contribute to society than just disappearing.

Wow, I thought this thread would have died at >>384965.

So I spent the summers of 86 and 87 fishing in alaska, well, I didn't really fish, I worked at the docks. It was shitty work, fucken long and boring, no real entertainment for miles, I was working in a dry county to boot, manual labor mainly, pull rope, drag box, push cart, whatever you say boss man, the cleaning staff sucked so my room always was half dirty, but the pay was fucken great, and it was away from everyone I knew. Look into fishing for a summer, expect to work from about mid may till late September. It's gonna get cold near the end, don't leave early, they won't take you back.

>>385005
>I've got a lot more to contribute to society than just disappearing.

Lol no...you don't.

>>385023
Why would you say that? I truly believe it and you have no reason not to think so. Just the fact that I'm the type of person who would take the time to type out that reply implies that I'm at least going to attempt to.

Instead you go out of your way to tell someone else what they can't do instead of can.

>>385006
Thanks for the advice! I've actually been considering this if I don't get the job I want over the Summer and my other backup plans don't work.

A friend of mine did it a while back and said that while hard and a pain in the ass, it was still a good experience and made him a nice chunk of change to boot.

>>385023
dude, go back to /b/

As the third formerly homeless person itt, I have to agree that the whole wilderness "escape from society" idea is nowhere near as fun as you imagine it to be. It's a hard, boring, uncomfortable grind of an existence that wears on you. Not to mention it repels sane women.

>>385045

it might not be about "fun". maybe OP and the others have an extreme distaste for human contact.

i'm not that extreme, but i'm pretty close. i've lived in a shabby trailer park for decades because the people here leave me alone. if i lived in a "normal" place, neighbors would always be saying "hi" and pretending to be friendly and expecting me to participate in cookouts and parties.

so i can see the appeal of living alone in the wilderness, but i agree with you that it is too difficult for most people.

>>385046
>if i lived in a "normal" place, neighbors would always be saying "hi" and pretending to be friendly and expecting me to participate in cookouts and parties.
Are you a time traveller from the 1950's?

>>385051

no, i live in the south, which in many ways is like living in the 50s.

>>385046
>if i lived in a "normal" place, neighbors would always be saying "hi" and pretending to be friendly and expecting me to participate in cookouts and parties.
With all due respect, I think you have a distorted view of "normal" places, apparently due to your lack of experience living in one. Your perspective sounds like it came from a TV show.

I grew up as a subsistance farmer. Mainly, my mother grew up as one, and she just lived that way, so she taught all of the kids. I know how to hunt, forage and tend. The food is great, and you cannot beat the view, but you are tied to the land. You never get a day off. Someone said that it is boring, but I would say it is monotonous. After awhile, you get tired of canned squash.

>>384963
Veganism. Other than that I'd love to.

>>384963
Common sense.

>>384963
Sanity

>>385066

Agreed. I live in a normal, white picket fence burb and I've spoken to one set of neighbors in passing twice in five years. I couldn't pick any other neighbor out of a lineup. The only time my NO SOLICITORS sign has been ignored was cops asking if a found dog was mine. I think I had trick or treaters once but we go out on Halloween and leave the place as dark as deep space.

Keep your yard presentable and no junkers parked on the road and you are invisible.

>>385067
Is that farming to sel to others are just for your family?

I dont know who in their right mind would want to rough it in the wild of alaska. Being homeless in a place where it can get -50 doesnt sound like my idea of a good time.

In fact living in a nice house in a place where it can get -50 doesnt sound like my idea of a good time. Especially since I have Raynauds Disease.

>>384963

the love of warmth, food, non-insane asshole neighbors. sarah palin.

>>384963
>So what is keeping you from throwing caution to the wind, packing a bag of essentials, studying up on your survival skills, and going into the Alaskan wilderness?

The fact that I've already done it in 2010?

Would go back though. Was a lot of fun.

I've lived in the "Alaskan wilderness" most of my live. Not really any harsher than any other "wilderness." Dealing with cold and the almost non-existent animal threat is waaaay better than dealing with diseases, dehydration and venomous shit. I love my state, for a lot of reasons (and I'm not a crazy redneck), but the badassery of Alaska is seriously overhyped. So is the wilderness. Any truly uninhabited areas where you won't see anyone are nearly impossible to traverse (alders lol) and not rich in shit to eat anyway.

>>384996
cool, I did it on a smaller-scale this summer. best experience of my life so far, and I plan to do it again but over the course of a year.

>>384963
shouldn't you study survival skills before packing your bag?

The fact that the idiot in OP's picture died, alone, in the middle of nowhere because he's a fucking idiot.

I spend plenty of time alone innawoods. I don't need to go to fucking inhospitable shitholes to do it.