We basically have this in Ireland. Only instead of a log cabin its an old cottage in the middle of nowhere.
An old cottage with a gigabit connection.
Nah the internet sucks no matter where you live. That cottage with a closed network or something like Secure Scuttlebutt/Manyverse in a little village would be cool though. The town library can have gigabit internet (for downloading media) and a shared local Jellyfin (& calibre, Navidrome, audiobookshelf, etc) server that can be accessed by anyone in town.
Want to play Live Service or online games? To the library. Publish your website or music album or artwork outside of the local loop? To the library. Online classes? To the library.
My gaming rig weighs like 90lb, I’ll be running CAT6 to the library thanks
Or just keep your rig at the library. Makes it so you’re around when the library LAN parties start.
I would prefer the cul de sac of 8 close friends, but still surronded in nature.
and lan party cables?
I think the cottage being a short/medium bike ride away from friends/the city would be a perfect middle ground.
For me and my friends it would be a bunch of small close islands, and then one larger community island in the middle.
I’m thinking something like in Sweden’s Skärgård, where there are lots of such islands.
I would like that, but with internet, and lan parties.
Yeah my Father in Law basically has this… but significantly nicer (4bed, 4bath, full kitchen, running spring water, off-grid solar+batteries), up a mountain, surrounded by pine trees, with StarLink internet.
It’s amazing when we can go visit for a week or 2
Lived like that for a while (but with a working shower and not-so-fast internet). 10/10 would recommend. Will do again when I’m done with $CURRENT_LIFE_ISSUES.
You want Norway, Sweden and Finland. You can get fast internett pretty much anywhere and a large portion of the countries are just forest. I actually met a guy in Troms who is the only year round resident of an island that has two ferries a week if you book ahead of time and he has fast internett, as well as a lovely vegetable garden and a plentiful supply of fish.
Definitely not, my dream place to life is microdistrict with everything needed close.
I’d rather have a modern house, some housemates and no internet.
Internet is useless compared to a proper well. Water - good
Everyone I know who lives in the woods has a well functioning well. None of them I know have fast internet.
Everyone has fast internet in the Nordic countries, no matter how rural they live.
Internet revolutionaries revealing that “eat the cul de sac” was internalized self-loathing all along.
Hell no lol
meh, I’m too anxious and would end up fitting a bunch of security in and on the house
Ah yes – cold and drafty, that’s the way we like it.
Yah. But also with heat, running water, AC, a convenience shop nearby and some friends. So basically what I already have minus a job.
You don’t need A/C.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
Edit: I meant that you don’t need A/C in a cottage like the one pictured, not that A/C is unnecessary altogether. I used to live in Texas. No A/C will literally kill you in Texas, but in a wooded mountain cottage surrounded by trees like that, you don’t really need it. In my house in WY, the hottest it ever gets inside is 78 with low humidity. Below is the current temp in my room, with computers running, at 2:22PM.
Yeah and I dont need a roof either, but it sure is fuckin nice
If it gets hot you just cool down in the lake. If it gets cold, sauna.
All depends on the climate your in, and the insulation of your house. You can build houses which don’t need AC even in hot places by going underground or making earth ships. Yet with traditional construction and insulation in many places AC is almost required. Pretty efficient anyway, just a heat pump.
You don’t need A/C.
Eh, it’s REALLY nice to have right now with daytime highs in the upper 90s. It’s even nicer when it’s both hot and humid.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
So do I.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
No you don’t Wyoming doesn’t exist. Garfield told me so.
You don’t need AC now.
I live in Vancouver Canada, and up until like 2005 none of the lower density developments (townhouses and low rise apartments) had air conditioning because no one really needed it. Our townhouse for example even has windows that aren’t compatible with window air conditioners and no one minded until fairly recently. All that’s changed really quickly and now everyone is scrambling for air conditioning with heat waves getting worse every year.
Yeah, no.
While you might not need it, everyone has a different temperature tolerance and for some people, it is absolutely a requirement.
I live in the U.K., no one has AC. Some people will say you don’t need AC. If it was free, or even reasonably affordable, and easy, do you know what I’ve had this summer?
Edit; edited for clarity.
I also live in the UK. The last few years I’ve been tempted to buy a portable AC. Just as I go to spend £300, the weather turns and I decide to spend money on other stuff (like food)
We had that heat wave just after Easter this year, much earlier than I remember, that was the final straw. Bought one on marketplace for £180.
Every night going to bed the sheets are crisp and cool. I sleep like a baby.
The biggest downside? Damn those things are pricey to run
This is something I’ll have to consider. There’s one in the office at work that’s like 400 quid. It’s almost a weeks wages.
I’m sure heat is covered since it has a fireplace. The others are luxuries I can do without
Not me. The rural part? Yes. But I can smell and feel the wet. In this type of place, you’ll be in a war of attrition against insects of all types. And mold and wood rot. Then there’s the wild animals or scary horror film neighbors.
Ticks.
the ticks have gotten so bad in recent years, it’s actually a main reason I wouldn’t want to move farther out from the city.
my dogs are too low to the ground and too fluffy to find the many ticks on them after being outside. hell they get ticks even inside city limits (in the green spaces) here.
we stopped taking a wonderful forest route at my parents’ with them because it’s just not worth finding ticks on them over the next 48 hours and having them crawl out onto you at night
Between lone star tick disease and deer prions I am not really all that interested in being in the woods proper anymore.
That’s why you get chickens or turkeys. They eat them.
Guinea fowl even more so
I lived here for several years. Every time you walk outside, an insect will find an orifice.
Set a fire in the fireplace, it sorts out the humid inside aor
