Getting away from it all?
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- monNom0
Americans would like nothing better than to ditch everything and live like bums on the beach in Mexico, visa be-damned. Meanwhile Mexican's want nothing better than to work in the USA, and visa be damned.
circle of life.
- Miesfan0
Leukemia with 8 years left him in a wheelchair.
At 14 he began to travel. Alone, with his backpack, and no money. And if that was not surprising enough, also moves in a wheelchair. Albert Casals is his name.
- frankgeen0
Doesn't have to be NZ either.
- _niko0
you could be the next Gauguin
or brando
- inteliboy0
^ melbourne is fcking hell expensive it's ridiculous -- and the design/ad/agency market isn't exactly that large either.
- ********0
One of my mums friends used to be a manager at British Airways. He and his wife decided to give up the city live, move to Penzance, make and sell sculptures made out of driftwood, and they love their lives so much more now. They got an alright sized, dirt cheap house on a clifftop, converted their garage into a flat that they let out long term over winter, and expensive and short-term over the summer.
Apparently he earns somewhere similar to what he used to, but he just gets to do whatever he wants.
I like the city life, but if you fancy the quiet life, it's there if you want it.
- shade0
i doubt that anyone who frequents this site will be of much help. go ask someone who lives on the street without access to a computer and see what they have to say about it.
- DaveO0
I moved from London to New York last year – which is basically the other way round to this thread.
In London I lived right on a park, had a car to get out of town and had a garden. I'm now temporarily sharing a place with a few other people (and my girlfriend), pay more rent and am fundamentally broke from the move, BUT i'd still have done it had i known it would be this hard.
I feel like people always talk about doing shit then never show up and actually make it happen. So many friends from home talk a good game about going away to live and work without the faintest idea of how haard and expensive it can be.
If you want to do it, just fucking do it and quit talking about it. You can be a passenger in your life if you want, or you can be a driver.
- Yep. UK->US is fucking hard uphill complicated and expensive. Totally worth every second though.mikotondria3
- kona0
this is what i have my folks for. they live 10 minutes from the nearest town out in the country with a few neighbors sprinkled here and there. it's not the scenario above of being completely isolated but it's far enough from the city life to unwind and reset for a weekend. i'm 36 and at night i still marvel at how bright the stars are when there's no city lights drowning them out. and i'm amazed that if you look close enough with the naked eye you can see the blink from low flying satellites in space. the air is fresh and crisp and even if the family and i spend only a day out there we feel refreshed.
i have a buddy living off the grid up in oregon. he owns a small shack with his girlfriend, a kayak and an old car and a shed filled with tools. he fashions furniture for a living and that's about it. he's never been happier.
- benfal990
Middle Earth is in NZ.
Sounds like a +1 to me! :D
- frankgeen0
Maybe I should just work ion a coffee shop or bookstore or something here.
- ukit0
Join a commune
