That's nice, now I only need 200k so I can buy a house with a backyard so I can make my own groceries.
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Where do you live that 200k gets you enough land to grow your own food? Mine was Β£230k and all I can realistically grow a years supply of in a year is a few types of herbs.
Easy enough. Every country has an area where nobody wants to live. On the side of a mountain, hours away from the next city, maybe on an old garbage tip or an old industrial chemical spill. In Eastern Europe you might even find a cheap piece of land in a mine field. Should be possible.
I really don't recommend to grow your food on an old garbage pit or an old industrial chemical spill or zone, just in case someone was going to take this seriously.
There isn't really any unowned land left in England. Some patches that are abandoned perhaps but its not exactly publicised as someone would probably take it if it was well known that there was free land somewhere.
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There are still cheap places to live all over England and Scotland - I bought a 1 bedroom flat with small garden for Β£90k in Peterborough (a smaller city about an hour north of London) 3 years ago, and the garden has enough space for a few raised beds with vegetables in them
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LOL. I started out with a little wooded land, cut trees, cleared it, bought a $1,200 well used mobile home and now have a nice home with three gardens. Buy small and grow.
Have you tried giving up avocado toast?
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Warning: may lead to overpopulation, hierarchy, authoritarian forms of government, malnutrition, slavery, and war. Use at your own risk.
Hunter-gatherers had most of that, too.
Not really. An exception are hunter-gatherers benefitting from the rich marine resources and salmon of Pacific North America, but for most hunter-gatherers:
overpopulation: well, populations tend to hit the carrying capacity, whatever it may be, but I think here it refers to living conditions like with poop being in the street and stuff like that
hierarchy: hardly any to speak of, it's mostly family-based, with special respect for great hunters or people who solve conflicts
authoritarian forms of government: no
malnutrition: of course hunger and famine exists for hunter-gatherers as well, but they generally had much better nutrition than early agriculturalists
slavery: no, they don't have the social organization to manage this
war: meeting strangers was always a dangerous event, and war can exist in specific times and places, more often being small-scale ritualized warfare in places of high productivity, but food production really brought that to another level
Garlic will grow like a weed too. Growing up we had an entire bed along the outside north wall that went from mixed plants to oops all garlic and chives alarmingly quickly.
Chives make a nice border plant, they crowd out weeds, they are great for cooking and they have nice flowers in the spring.
once a week i hunt for a shop and gather some groceries.
Just like my forebears
You're descended from bears?
Yes, four of them to be exact.
Garlic factory owners hate this one simple trick.
Eliminate car repair bills with a bunch of tools and this weird trick!
12000 years and weβre back
This sounds like a wall-e type sci-fi concept. Except our actual future.
The garlic at my local store is 69Β’ a bulb. Nice!
Idiicracy
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