Wednesday, May 29, 2019

what not to do in 2020 collapse 3


WHAT NOT TO DO IN 2020 COLLAPSE 3
We’ve talked about why this might be the last economic collapse ( before things get real, like anarchy and civil war ).  And why you need to act like it is rather than just acting like you hope this isn’t.  So, now, what is going to happen if you do nothing.  First off, shelter.  Look at all the idiots now, setting up tents and being homeless.  I’ve made fun of tents before, pointing out they won’t slow down bears very well.  And I’ve told you to beware Hobo Rape.  Hey, these guys are pretty damn nasty-do you REALLY want their junk in the wrong place?
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And that isn’t factoring in Ebola.  Now, I don’t know if Ebola is the Next Smallpox Epidemic Of 1493.  It could be, or not.  However, even if it turns out to be a minor scare, I can tell you for sure that if it isn’t we are screwed.  Only five airports test for it, and those tests are probably laughable.  And the border?  Even if Forrest Trump gets off his orange ass and gets serious, the problem isn’t going to get fixed anytime soon.  And there are reports of Africans crossing the southern border.
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Granted, those are more akin to Alex Jones types of rumors.  Fear porn dialed to 11.  That could be BS.  But it is simply too easy to get into a Sanctuary State here, by whatever means.  Nancy Polosi never met an illegal voter she didn’t like.  And she is just a nasty wrinkled whore to the bankers ( I think I’d rather get Hobo Raped than see her naked, but a whore she is nonetheless ).  Everyone loves immigration, except those already living here.  If you think a collapse is impossible, just look at our elite.
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Anyway, I wouldn’t even be surprised if Ebola was used intentionally.  I won’t even go off on a rant about that one.  But one of the first places you can bet it would show up is amongst the homeless.  If I look hard enough, I can see the good in anybody.  The problem is, they can barely see it themselves and quickly revert to mega stupid behavior.  No matter how nice a bum is, he is still Patient Zero.  Those humpers are just plain gross, a petri dish that enjoys an adult libation around the clock.  Avoid as you would a leper colony. 
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And the tent cities WILL spread.  Right now, the majority of bums are just worthless cankers, too much of a pussy to kill their miserable selves and try to do it with booze and drugs, irritating the rest of us in the process.  Come economic collapse, the “real”, “normal” people currently living in cars won’t even be able to do that ( plus, all the newly minted poor will join them ) and be forced into tents.  And the “normies” don’t want to live in the already established Bum Towns with that scum and villainy. 
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I can see a father with kids not wanting to be anywhere close to junkies defecating on the sidewalk.  So he goes much further out to find a squat spot ( bums are incredibly lazy and hate to walk, so they get as close to resupply as possible ).  I can see tent cities with legions of bicycle commuters, assigned caregivers staying behind.  You MIGHT find sanctuary there, but I wouldn’t count on it.  The police won’t harass OtherColor Financially Disadvantaged homeless, but they most likely will raid and harass Normal People Encampments. 
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Or, the bums will raid the camps for nicer stuff to steal ( the bum camps only offer fecal stained used clothing and vodka bottles ).  I know I said they are lazy humpers, but they will be just like crackheads today.  Either way, it is probably too much of a target.  Wouldn’t you rather plan ahead now and have a piece of junk land with a ferrocement hut with locks, and a fence around it containing a dog?  And don’t forget logistics if you are homeless.  Camping supplies and bicycles will first disappear ( just-in-time-inventory ), then shoot up in price.
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What I’m trying to say is that the homeless population will explode, drastically.  And you do NOT want to be in that stampede.  You cannot wait until then to buy junk land, either.  There simply isn’t enough to go around if it becomes at all popular.  And you can bet that as soon as it does, scams will abound ( it isn’t too bad at all right now, in that aspect ).  You may or may not get lucky with RV’s ( motor attached ).  As things get worse, those unable to imagine building something themselves will be paying too much for pull trailers. 
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But when the next “$147 a barrel” moment happens, motorized RV’s might lose all luster.  MIGHT.  I wouldn’t want to bet on it, but if the majority of prospective buyers envision driving from spot to spot, they won’t want a gas guzzler.  Unless they will be parking in a relatives driveway.  Which is why it might go either way.  Don’t depend on it being mobile, yourself, however.  Happy Motoring WILL end.  You all just think it will be later.  But what if it is sooner?  Saudi Arabia losing its pumping/refining capacity isn’t as catastrophic as it once was, but other issues abound.
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I won’t get into all that.  Just don’t count on affordable fuel as a cheap lifestyle alternative.  Car/van/RV living is great, now, the cost of even California fuel a bargain compared to rent in almost all places.  But the whole reason we are in the economic mess we are is because of the Peak Oil 2005 ushering in way too much Fake Fuel drastically crushing EROI, net energy, and there being less energy for all other industries ( such as suburban sprawl, the defacto economic engine between the Tech Wreck and the Housing Bubble Derivatives meltdown ). 
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The Oil Age isn’t going to end sometime, it is already in the process.  It isn’t a future scare.  Just like an economic collapse.  It has already started, we are just waiting for things to go from “getting worse” to “completely over with”.  This is the danger of thinking the collapse is a stairstep.  You think things will keep normalizing after every setback.  If you look at it as a waterfall collapse, you know after freefall there is only death.  By giving up a middle class petroleum heavy lifestyle now, voluntarily, while you can still invest in the dystopian future, you’ve found portage around the falls instead of heading over them.
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( today's related Amazon link click here )
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note: free for today books.  PA here.  Not sure on this one-the recovery after the collapse.  Yet, if from a low tech point it might be interesting here
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note: if you are bored and want a survival-ish movie, Amazon Prime has "Eden".  Plane crash on a island and the survivors have little water or food.  Not great, a little PC ( see gentle moral Black save everyone from evil Whitey ), just good enough to watch it all the way through.  I liked the clash between the characters who knew what had to be done and those too weak to do so ( of course, you know the side message movie is going to pick ).  Pay attention to the Jap skeleton.  That was NOT their issue rifle.
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32 comments:

  1. re:
    the 'goofballs'

    Daily, here near the outskirts of Eugene Oregon, we see the goofballs on the bicycles they stole pulling their trailers loaded with batteries and other stolen goods, swerving toward the scrap buyers.

    Daily, we run them off the farm. If they settle-in for a few days, we are stuck with cleaning-up their sewage and needles.

    The shores of our two rivers, MacKenzie and Willamette, are toxic waste dumps from decades of goofball camps. Volunteers are discouraged from cleaning the mess because moon-suits and respirators are required.

    I don't have the answer to their disrespect for their home. I think I am better without them.

    I read some of the material at AnonymousConservative. I resonate with the column about K/r Selection; this explains much of the activities with the goofballs... and the stark raving socialists in our university town.

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    1. They were just talking about a bayonet able shotgun over at Western Rifle. Sounds like a good anti-goofball weapon.

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    2. Paul Harrel on YT (almost 300K subs) had most recent 5 minute vid about apocalypse shotguns....even modified "bayonet barrel". Just your thing Lord Bison.

      https://youtu.be/dhTrfe3P4v8

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    3. Thanks, I'll check it out. As per our discussion the other day, a good article on how Goldman uses derivatives and other instruments to make gobs of money. Started back in the 1920's. Ignore the last of the article which seems to have not panned out as forecasted.
      https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-195229/

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    4. Mossberg 590 , pricy but already has a bayonet lug.
      Military issue.

      2:48

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    5. Bayonets are the bomb diggity.

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    6. I read the article about GS. Yup, pretty on target BUT...a couple pieces of info. I had friends & former coworkers who were in one of largest CDO groups in late 90s.
      You would be surprised at $ volume of product that was packaged for Asian investors, particularly Japan and S. Korea. Astonishing sums. I don't recall the credit quality of the tranches they bought but doesn't matter because, as this article only briefly noted, the 2 big ratings agencies pretty much "F'd up". This stuff got packaged and sold overseas within week or so of the 100 or so mortgages undergirding the CDO being finalized at house purchase. Think game of "hot potatoe". Mortgages that had been parsed down to the finest degree of info. How big, rate, term, where, applicant credit history. Quant guys even knew within fraction of a % how many would default in "X" timeframe or move or payoff early. Everyone was hunting for yield AND security.
      Mortagges weren't only thing flipped into CDOs. Credit card balances, auto loans, large equipment lease/buy deals. All kinds of things got financialized.
      Hell, nothing new. Big NYC banks did something similar when they lent out $ for slave purchases in 1850s in the big slave auction centers of New Orleans, Memphis(where the phrase "sold down the river" originated) and Charleston.

      Second, as regards the 2008 oil run up...I personal witnessed Sr level executives (principles!) of long time, well known/respected financial firms "catch the fever" as prices moved up. They wanted to "invest" in O&G.
      It wasn't investing, it was gambling.

      Here's the thing Jim, GS isn't Satan's earthly HQ, despite the spin, GS just has the best radar in the world....and that radar is tuned to pick up on people's greed. Yeah, chicanery and possibily rule breaking going on but mostly what vaulted GS to top of heap is the what you write about all the time...weak ass decision making by a bunch of piss poor protoplasm masquerading as people. It's all about greed.

      Here is a story for your Cali readers. It's about Marcie Frost, new director of CALPERS.
      Hint: SELL!!!, you mothers and get out!

      Disclaimer: This does not constitute an offer or investment advice. Seek advice from a registered investment professional regarding your particular situation. Etc etc etc

      https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/09/marcie-frost-s-poor-job-calpers-ceo-place-run-like-high-school-not-business-operational-failings.html

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    7. My Rem 870 has no easy made way to install a bayonet. A year or so ago I saw a device somewhere (gonna try to find it again) that was 2 pieces of steel pipe and one piece slid down over the end of the barrel. It had an internal rib to prevent it from sliding all the way down the barrel, and it had external threads. Piece 2 threaded onto piece 1 and cinched down on the barrel like a Dremel chuck. Piece 2 had a razor sharp jagged front edge. The barrel becomes the bayonet. I have a similar rig on my AR but it threads right onto the barrel and works as a flash suppressor too. Slamming either one into someones face will definitely mess up their day, and life.

      What I didn't like in that article linked at WRSA was the attachment of an ammo carrier on the butt stock. I've had tactical training with the 870 and understand how to load the gun "over the top" or from underneath with the left hand while keeping the gun trained on the target with the right. So getting ammo out of the right side of the buttstock seems to be far too difficult. And it makes the gun much heavier. I'd much rather have a dump bag on the left side of my belt with maybe 30 rounds in it. I have a 6 rd side saddle on the gun, and the extended mag protrudes a little past the barrel and holds 9 (2-3/4") rds.

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    8. One of my friends has plans for single shot shotgun that will have a bayonet installed on it 'Bubba Style'.

      After SHTF (and laws no longer apply), he plans on a sawn off shotgun barrel having a carbon bladed Old Hickory blade duct taped to underside of barrel. Notching the fore end of shotgun in front, the bayonet has handle materials removed and metal handle stuck into notch. Then wrap the rest of handle around barrel with duct tape.

      One helluva slashing short gun, good for tight spaces.

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    9. Kind of makes me want a shotgun now :)

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    10. GS-yeah, you don't go against training even if it seems better. You already learned on a shotty without the buttstock ammo, so just stick with that. It is like AR folks claiming the AK isn't ergonomic. Sure it is, if you've trained on it. Then it becomes the best weapon, for them.

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    11. Anon()()-I don't really believe Goldman is responsible for the crash or can manipulate things to a large degree. They are the fall guy for the central bank. The article is mainly for folks to get background on how the game works and how dangerous derivatives are. I don't believe Rolling Stone would have ever run the article, or the author ever gotten his book published by NYC, if he was really exposing the real powers behind the throne.

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  2. Right Jim. There is differing levels of the dirt poor existence, and it will vary with location and terrain. Those with a bit of income stream or external resource support are able to be a vagabond gypsy type with at least mobilty options or better choices of encampments, than the true bottom feeders. In a functioning economy with law and order, civil cooperation, etc a r.v. squat and relocate pattern can be used, as is done now by retirees etc. Come collapse having one's own plot to hole up in is going to be a near necessity as the die off progresses to a locust stripping the landscape scenario. Hermitage is the apt word for the Minion posse homeys.

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  3. Here is a link to a blog which has a link of the making of a pool bladder 'tent - yurt'. It is made with steel 'T' posts driven into ground in a circle, then having several 'cattle panels' secured to them to form a circle. Then the above ground pool bladder is thrown over it, forming an above ground short tent (easier to heat). In the center, a taller steel 'T' post or similar should be erected so that the center slopes the roof toward the edges.

    https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2015/07/diy-camping-tent-submission.html

    These pool bladders can be salvaged from pools which sometimes develop small leaks and are discarded. So you can sometimes get these for free if you look in the right places. These pool bladders are heavy duty PVC construction. A door of sorts will have to be cut in side, but much better than nothing.

    These metal materials can be purchased and left out in the boonies under brush or trees, ready for use. Or if the land is already privately owned, can be set up, ready for bladder to be installed overhead.

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  4. Raconteur Report has a monthly update about Ebola. He is a medical professional. I trust his information. Here is the latest one:

    http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2019/05/ebola-2019-update.html

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    1. Ebola is how I found him, and I also value and trust his reporting there. Granted, like all Californians ( except me ), he has some real wackadoodle beliefs on other things, included a way out of reality deity type worship of the medical field ( I see this with others from the state, with beliefs in their official institutions that are just crazy unwarranted ). But if you pick and choose, you find him invaluable.

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  5. Lord Bison, I have read your sage words these last few days which has sparked a mental debate within my head and I seek your council... your position most oft repeated is food first, followed by junk land and then the forever gun/reloading, which I fully embrace in theory. If you were in my shoes, how would your proceed: I have a windfall of greenbacks that I want to put toward preps, say $3-5k at the absolute maximum. Current CA/Bay Area apartment dweller with a wife and daughter at home. Roughly 625 square feet for the 3 of us. Have probably 3 maybe 4 months of food on hand, 50ish gallons of water and 3 filters. Storage space is pretty maxed, so additional food storage is difficult at best. Certainly no room for a ton or three of wheat... Nearest junk land is SE Oregon, 6-7 hour drive from here. Not ideal, but not impossible in Happy Motoring days, but a little far for developing the land in a short time frame and virtually no way to secure what's there between visits. (There is junk land in CA a little closer, but I will not invest in this place as I want out eventually) On the firearm/ammo front, we're ok, not great, but have a sidearm and long gun for each of us and maybe 2k rounds of .22, the same in 9mm, 300 or so of various 12ga and maybe 200 rounds of 5.56 for the poodle shooter and a bolt gun that uses the same. BUT, in July another new BS state rule goes into effect requiring background checks for ammo purchases! First World problems, I know. So, if you were in my shoes, what would you do? Squirrel more food into every square inch, grab a plot of dirt I may rarely if ever get to, or buy as much ammo as possible before the bastards start tracking me. Only caveat is leaving CA is NOT an option now, and honestly I'll probably be trapped here another 3 years. I'd love to get your take on my situation, and advice from any fellow Minionites is welcome.

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    1. I see your immediate problem as ammo, definitely. Just don't spend ALL your money that way. Hell, what is a case of 223-$250? I'm sure it is more, there, but it is only another $500 in theory to get 10x the rifle ammo you have now. You have enough pistol and rimfire, and enough shotty assuming it is apt defense primarily. Concentrate on the rifle ammo. If you can do food, I'd research the most compact calories possible. Even freeze dried. Can you trunk stash wheat in the car? Even two hundred pounds under the back seat and you have another two months food. As for your Oregon land, I think the best you can do is an RV at a nearby storage lot. That has issues, I guess you can always just plan on a crappy tent until you build shelter. That issue is a bit more open ended as a solution. But in general, rifle ammo and then something to make the OR land viable that doesn't include leaving stuff on the land or visiting more than once. You can always e-mail if you have any other questions you don't want to publicly share info on ( or, Hell, snail mail me-with a reminder to ONLY snail mail back if you are worried about NSA recorders ). Hope I helped at least a little.

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    2. As with jl above, I too am from the bay area (Though I’ve since moved further out, east of Stockton). I looked high and low for affordable junk land, and the closest that I found was also about 6 hours away. I ended up getting land in Elko county NV in 2015 after I lost my job (Ironically, not really any further than I would have had to drive to junk land in CA). The caveat of course is that it is far enough away that developing it is difficult for me to do unless I were to move there. Unfortunately, CA is a terrible place for poor preppers, and there are no easy answers. I’d say that the best option jl, is to get that junk land, and plan on moving there as soon as it’s feasible to do so.

      CA actually does have potential, but only for those that already have all of the cool gadgets in place (that CA doesn’t want you to have, and has since outlawed) and only if you already own the remote land, and are locked in at a low tax rate due to prop 13 (Probably the only sane law that state has ever passed). But with the above exception aside, practically anywhere else would be an improvement. I only say that there is some potential there, because it’s a huge state, and parts of it are very remote.

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    3. How sad is it that Oregon is an improvement over Cali?

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    4. Thanks James, good, solid advice. The thought of off property RV storage never even occurred to me, found a spot pretty close to the land Im looking at for only $35/month. Totally within the realm of possibility for me. Thank you Sir! And yes, the rifle ammo is certainly on the to do list, its list hard to come by around here.

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    5. Today's Rawlesville has a link to an article about Australia preppers.

      The Australia government agents admit the whole continent stores less than a week of fuel... with vivid descriptions of failures of food, medicine, Law Enforcement Officials, worse than it is now so that sounds pretty darn nasty. One survivalist owns 'six times the government-approved amount of fuel!', so she is set for the rest of the month, eating "raw celery instead of wasting fuel on cooking". [sarc in original]

      As for Frisco, in my wildest nightmares, I cannot imagine getting within a hundred miles of the place. To maintain a home and family in a collapsed post-apoc environment such as 2019 Frisco... that takes a tougher person than me. But, fortunately, you outlawed straws, so that is on the 'plus' side. [additional sarc from your humble public servants]

      The 'RecreationVehicle in an Oregon mini-storage' sounds like it could work. Frisco-to-Oregon is about 600-miles if you walk the Interstate freeway. Assuming ten miles a day, how ready are you and your family for a two-month stroll to get to it?

      I tell my family living in the mountains east of Sacramento:
      You are behind enemy lines.

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    6. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache.

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    7. jl-I'm glad it helped. Sometimes I get lost in my own repeat loop and am unsure of its effects. Minions have reported that storage unit theft is getting commonplace, so keep that in mind. Still, the alternative is far worse.

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  6. I think you overrate chance of homeless hordes de-camping for ex-urban sites. In event of economic collapses people will continue to stay in their homes/apts for long time. Inertia is one of most powerful things in humans. Just look at Detroit, E St. Louis, Camden, Gary IN. All collapsed economies for the most part, but millions still there decades after collapse.

    Mortgage holders will be forced by FedGov to accept partial payments or suspension. Local taxes will be frozen. Even politicos aren't so stupid as to allow wholesale evictions.
    If you brutalize people long enough you get backlash....remember 300,000,000 guns?
    You've read Concerned American @ WRSA. Just think... ex-LA cop Dorner X 1000. After the first 25 or 50 evictions in a neighborhood...the guns get dug up.

    Some really Left wing cities will prohibit evictions. FedGov will agree cause easier to feed/control people in houses than scattered about. Emergency feeding stations will be setup in every neighborhood. Clamp downs on population movements.It's all about control.
    Here's the chow line mantra..."Would you like some slop with your gruel?"

    Enough for today...gotta go ride the fenceline; don't want any "glittery unicorns" to squeeze through a watergap. Ha, ha.
    Keep'em coming Jim!

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    1. I'll agree that whatever form taken, yeah, most likely control will center on food.

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  7. So long time minion off experiencing this latest series of Bisons articles from the victim –er- street level view.

    Got 'let go' after most of a decade at one place, the last half of which was spent with me fighting worse and worse performance reviews, etc. The bosses tossed me around between them like a hot potato in mid-winter. (Good to warm the hands for a bit but something to get rid of as soon as you got the minimum of what you needed). Meanwhile I saw the writing on the wall, had my land and have been developing it as fast as money and time allowed. The company kept me from filing a lawsuit by bribing me when they kicked me to the curb. I took the bribe after checking with my lawyer and finding a suit would net not much more and take much longer.

    I had also been putting aside every dollar I could into either their retirement fund for the matching that was vested as of the 6th month of employment OR into hard assets useful for improving the land or surviving on.

    So far so good. A rental house in town 10 minutes from the land, but only 30 days heads up to move out, and a trailer we could park on our land, etc.

    But the past winters showed my spouse could NOT stand the winters here in northern prairies between the cold weather and colder social scene (only 2 couples we could even kind of claim are friends). She insisted we take the trailer south, and use her investment income to pay the RV park rent in a warmer clime close to family and friends during the winter.

    Surprisingly, even with the cost of fuel down and back included, staying south for the winter saved us money. The rental house in the winters utility costs were nearly half the RV park rent - and that RV park rent included all utilities. So we saved hundreds of dollars by being south, plus reconnected to good friends. Then spring began to hit. And it was time to head back north and avoid AC costs.

    Rather than haul a RV trailer back and forth, we bought one with the bribe from the ex employer, and stored it for a pittance at the RV park, and are keeping the older trailer now on our north property while we build.

    We are looking for a cheap parcel in the south near the RV park we enjoy. We will be using a very fuel efficient vehicle to run back and forth and living the nomad lifestyle from now on.

    I played the Unemployment game until it ran out, but got only 2 interviews in 6 months of near daily applications. And only 1 of the interviews was even sort of possible- but I don’t want to move to an island without an escape route (funds) that the employer was unwilling to offer. SO from now on I am doing temp and contract work and taking a massive cut in hourly pay on paper BUT again, after figuring in all the 'benefits' that I don't have to 'contribute' toward it will by much less than a cut than one might think - and vs unemployment it works out to nearly the same.

    Honestly I am sleeping better, and having a plan in place means that my worries are less. Still concerned about money, but living frugally is an adjustment that the family is starting to really make in earnest. Refrigeration and running water are a concern on the north land, and making this adjustment this summer should help us make it when we move back south and start hunting land in the south in earnest with next @$10k chunk I am expecting to get from cashing in my retirement.

    Healthcare is a concern but insurance is a bigger rip off than just paying cash up front and living healthy.

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    1. Damn, dude, you should have written the article. Kudo's.

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    2. Nah, But I might post one about being a modern nomad and doing the 'boondocking' camping between primary camps (north or south). It can be a bit interesting where people tolerate it or don't (don't even dream of spending an entire night boondocking in Oregon I-5 corridor for example.)

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    3. That could be interesting. I normally don't care for the concept, with impending gas supply issues, but it sounds like you have that danger minimized. If someone were to JUST drive around living, that is bad. But a twice a year trip of limited mileage to follow the seasons ( one assumes supplies at both points ) sounds doable.

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