What are the downsides to buying a large property in the middle of nowhere and living in a tent?
I want just 20 acres of undeveloped land with some forest to fuck around in, as long as I can get satellite internet for my remote job it would be a dream.
>I want undeveloped land with infrastructure
> satellite internet
> infrastructure
SatInternet is pretty bad tho if you need to stream or make video calls
>satellite internet
You'll need electricity and a well. No super markets or emergency services could be a problem. Your photo is desert. Fuck that.
>haha my electricity free satellite connection
You need a place to take as shit, shower and shave. It gets old wiping your ass with leaves after about 48 hours. The fantasy is fun but the reality is much less sublime. You need basic infrastructure to be just functional.
I live in a mobile home with 1 acre of land. Paid v little money and live 9 minutes away from a city. All my neighbors are white and racist. I have fast internet and $200/year property taxes. My yard is all fenced. I have no mortage and save about 100% of my wage. All my expenses are from my stock market gains. Life is pretty uncomplicated. Also I work from home. Why live in the middle of nowhere in a tent when you could do low cost civilized living.
no water or electricity; police will fuck with you rather than protecting you. Other than that, no real problem in USA
So go do it and quit larping about it. Fag.
Most of the eastern part of Washington state is considered a desert. That picture you posted is almost certainly from the wettest part of the year. It's probably brown and dead most of the time.
>tent
If it's your land why not build at least a cabin or shed to live in? If all you want to do is live in a tent just go to a national park.
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No infrastructure
You need a boatload of stuff to function- water, power, heating, refridgation. Hauling gas to a generator and maintaining a battery-pack can be a big hazzle in critical situations like snowstorms or heatwaves.
It's doable, but a shitload of hard work
youll want somewhere remote but not too remote that you cant ask for help
better to choose stuff that is near a water supply
you can use solar for electricity
youll need to have at least a year of food supply on hand though
it will help to have some lifestock, like chickens (meat and eggs) and goats (for milk) not to eat
t. literally owns a cabin in the wood by the water
>Hauling gas to a generator
solar
>he thinks he can just buy land without the state taking money every year for it
Good luck paying those property taxes without any income.
wisconsin desu. so comfy here. come to north part. for serious. don't tell to many of your friends.
>remote job
>no income
really makes you hmm
>t. literally owns a cabin in the wood by the water
pics?
this, you're better off squatting with a rifle
btw you can find cheap land on craigslist on the real estate tab
$100 down on $3k for a 10 acre parcel cheap
Gonna piggyback on this post for some advice.
I'm a teacher in Houston. Born and raised in this area, know Houston very well. Currently live in the suburbs (nearly an hour commute each way). Need to move closer to work.
Do I stay in a gated complex in a suburban area with only a 20 minute commute each way for about $950?
Or do I move into the city with a slightly longer commute in a shittier place (but closer to cool shit and culture) for $750-$850?
Solar won't be that great in the winter.
>20 acres
>large property
You've never actually been on 20 acres, have you?
>living in a tent
Yeah things like wind, rain, cold, and snow wont be an issue. Shitting and bathing should be fun too.
not on this computer sorry. but its in the south
Go wherever is best to ensure you drown in the next hurricane.
Played a colony sim called Rimworld. Took me 2 years to build a proper bathroom. It was so resource intensive and I am a retard that didn't know the basics of plumbing. Can't imagine what it will be like having to poo in the streets like pajeet for 2 years.
You definitely need an RV with a built in bathroom. Camper Vans are just cuck mobiles without a bathroom/ Too bad boomers have over inflate the prices of RVs too. Good luck trying to escape while boomers expect you to pay over 50% on MSRP on their rusted ass used RVs.
10 minutes extra on a commute is 20minutes a day x 5 x 50+ weeks a year or 5000minutes per year ~83.3 hours
plus fuel and vehicle maintenance from the extra driving
>Solar won't be that great in the winter.
he'd obviously have to build a septic tank for the shit to goto. U dont need centralized sewage systems
gated complex > being murdered
My "head out to the woods and be a mountain man" fantasy pretty much centers around Montana. Where the trout are known to eat house pets in one gulp. I've seen the fishing over there on youtube. Beautiful.
You're a nigger
Wait are we living in a tent like a bum or are we renting a backhoe to dig your effluence tank and lay a leechbed?
Good luck keeping the DNR from pushing your shit in installing a conventional septic.
If I was a CIA nigger would I be attempting to arm the general populace for the civil unrest that's bound to take place if Trump is forced from office?
I live on 40 acres.
Comfy is booting others off my land.
Then taking a piss near my trees while I dink my beer and check my pot plants out.
You can sit on your porch and fap and nobody can stop you
youd have to talk to your municipality about what they would consider acceptable
>culture
Junkies, criminal niggers, panhandlers, and human shit in the streets.
Us rural retards are just uncultured to not appreciate the fine points of cities.
To each their own. I personally like the city. I don't want to live here forever, but while I'm young this is a great place to be.
Yes
hope youre armed
the city will quickly become death traps if/when shit kicks off
Also I lived in a shack on 50 acres for a few years while building my business. Had phone tethering for internet, electricity, wood for heat, propane for cooking.
I had washing up water from the stream on the property and boiling snow and got drinking water at a nearby spring. For shitting, I just dug an old fashioned in the yard, in the winter I just shit on a paper plate or in a bag or box and tossed it in the wood stove.
I didn't mind it and I was able to invest a lot of time and money into the business so that I could buy a proper house after a few years.
Garden is tough without running water, you're at the mercy of the weather. Fruit is OK though. I did well with apples, grapes, blueberries, and black berries. Picked fiddleheads in the spring, raised poultry for eggs and meat.
You're new
Twenty minutes commute is nothing. Its perfect to decompress from the day, crank the music and time to yourself. The city is alive, but it never sleeps. There are no times without noise. Always sirens, dumpsters slamming, people yelling and screeching at traffic lights. I'd rather go to the bustle when I choose, rather than not being able to escape it when I want peace.
You're illiterate
Houston would be a major death trap. When hurricanes hit the north freeways are packed for days. If there was a major catastrophe it would be inescapable.
stupid fucking leaf op said undeveloped land. Go fuck your dog and let the adults speak
You're a fucking idiot... living in a tent? Bwahahahaha. Tents become weather-worn in no time, if the sun is beating down on it all day every day.
You would have no water and no food.
a decent trailer is only $8k to $12k
I actually figured this out, once. Basically, look for areas that have scattered homes with SOME infrastructure and you can minimize the cost of running electricity and cable (like $6k).
You'll want a well, which can cost a shitload to dig. I'm not quite sure how to solve this, although I have seen solutions from poor people in Kentucky that use water and pumps and effectively automate it. Otherwise, wells can cost like $60k.
If cable isn't available, pick a spot that has good coverage on a satellite Internet coverage map.
Best I could figure out was about $40k in costs, which honestly isn't a whole lot more liberating than buying an old $100k house
Keep your degenerate Washington concert venues off of Jow Forums
Thanks to Uber there’s no reason to live in the city
Can't a 100 watt solar panel keep a laptop and a light on all day?
the government will literally come and shoot you in the face
Probably not a regular medium spec laptop, a
Imagine being so poor you have to burn your own shit to save up for a fucking house.
Says the memflag that chooses the second thread he sees without looking at the catalog because he sees a clever post in an unrelated thread.
electricity? need to install that shit. Solar or wind, both, who cares.
Water? you got a good enough well out there? how deep is the ground water? might be expensive to dig. Can you haul water to the property?
Is it in south africa, if so, you gonna die.
>Imagine being so poor you have to burn your own shit to save up for a fucking house.
Whatever. I own my house and have a successful business. It's called having a vision and doing whatever it takes to make it a reality. Doubtful many here would understand.
>wells can cost like $60k.
They can also cost $3500. If you're drilling 600'+ down hard rock and getting mineral and filtration systems, it's going to get expensive.
I was just in this boat. Home owner, company laid engineering department off in June and sent work to Belarus or some shit. Spent 10 weeks applying, interviewing like mad, companies kept dragging their feet. Finally started first day somewhere, today, taking a $60k raise over my last two gigs.
So with that out of the way, I was about to sell my house and take my $100kish of profit after closing costs and BS, buy 20 acres, live the good life. I camp 75+ nights a year in Colorado, winter included, -10*F shit @ 10,000ft above sea level.
1) Get a hot tent. A wall tent. A canvas rectangular straight walled tent. Find a safe grove of trees to put it in. Nothing old near by, you don't want to worry about a tree killing you in a wind storm. And you need to anchor your lines to the trees, not just the ground, or your house will blow the fuck away. Install stove jack. Buy small wood stove. Buy a ton of tarps, for covering the structure to prevent sunlight degrading the material - better a tarp than your tent.
After you get situated in your tent start building additional structures out of wood. Or if you have the money, buy a pre-fab'd barn and have it delivered. Trucks can deliver 12x52' pre-assembled barns. That's a lot of space for not a lot of money.
Why did I bother responding to this. I dodged a bullet landing a job and starting it in a 3 day time span after thinking my life was officially fucked. I was going to order a giant dumpster Sept 1 and begin throwing everything away so that I could sell. I was ready though, and what I just suggested to you was part of the plan - cept I would have bought a $20k new travel trailer to live in for a couple years until I was ready to put structures up.
Templars helped found my Mason brothers fsggot
Why a tent though? If you're too laazy to build a decent cabin you could buy one starting at a few grand depending on what you want. You would probably have to pay for it to be transported though
