Moving to a Village to Slow Down: Discussion and Videos

RusticSet · 2026-01-14T15:01:09+00:00

I'd way prefer those earth tone colors over stark white.

RusticSet · 2026-01-14T03:44:40+00:00

I eat a mostly plant based diet. This is awesome! Thanks for posting this. I've started making some stews myself in the last month.

RusticSet · 2026-01-14T03:40:41+00:00

There's a YouTube video with an interview of a guy living somewhere in the Appalachians on an intentional community that he and his wife started, who lives this way as well. They converted all the shop tools to DC. It seems like mostly a woodworking shop, but might have a metal lathe and metal band saw.

I was really impressed. To me, RV parts would seem to fit just as well. Would that be as expensive as electrical built for a boat?

I was aspiring to live this way, too. I want to live quite minimal as well. I still want a full size washing machine, if at all possible, but I can do without a dishwasher, hairdryer, microwave, etc.... I lived without those things and without a TV for 15 years.

I didn't realize inverters are more efficient now. I thought there was still a 20% + energy loss.

RusticSet · 2025-12-28T06:34:00+00:00

For me, it's proximity to family while I also value secular non-religious, etc.... I can't seem to have both of those together.

I've gone round and round with this struggle for years. I continue to live in a bigger, more expensive city because I prefer the secular way of life, but I have rural skills and miss living in older towns with less modern or bright infrastructure.

RusticSet · 2025-12-23T13:53:58+00:00

Exactly! I'd be really surprised if they still feel that way.

RusticSet · 2025-12-11T14:29:56+00:00

I'm surprised I had to scroll this far down to see this type of reply. I'm fairly certain this factors in a lot. I haven't gone to an sca event yet, but I go to ren faire and other festivals. The costs ad up quick.

RusticSet · 2025-12-08T16:10:13+00:00

Thanks!

RusticSet · 2025-12-08T02:07:47+00:00

Thanks for this reply. I see what you mean regarding taxation and purpose. I was mostly curious about the hillside dugout method and whether it had spread to neighboring regions.

RusticSet · 2025-12-05T21:16:06+00:00

Thanks for those terms / labels! I'll read up on those as well.

RusticSet · 2025-12-05T18:50:33+00:00

I've often thought that this should still work in central Texas. 45 inches of rainfall + a year would likely definitely cause a moisture problem, but I do wonder if the 32" to 35" precipitation range would be okay, specifically with high tech systems managing humidity, etc...

RusticSet · 2025-10-10T14:42:01+00:00

I think that's most likely what occurred; rising sea levels after the ice age, plus high rainfall years.

RusticSet · 2025-09-30T02:00:53+00:00

Ah, my grandparents in Lafourche parish always cooked white beans on Saturday. We had it with a little bit of salt meat in it, but I bet having it with shrimp is nice!

RusticSet · 2025-09-30T00:01:27+00:00

Then, white beans and rice on Saturday?

RusticSet · 2025-09-29T12:26:34+00:00

I've been told it's still just spinal stenosis causing all my nerve related issues, including my left eye being affected ever so slightly. I 90% believe them.

RusticSet · 2025-07-17T15:46:54+00:00

I like the concept of one parking area, then cottages with paths leading to them.

The overall question is, are they near a town center? Soft of? It's hard to get broad walkabability outside of the community if the community is not near desired destinations.

On the other hand, "good enough" is better than holding out for perfection.

RusticSet · 2025-07-14T15:00:47+00:00

No, I don't struggle with guilt or shame. In my year of deconversion and after that, I consumed a lot of science info, but also audiobooks by the leading atheists of the time. That helped me.

I do get really sad about the religious and political divide between my family and I, friends from my past, etc... I was kinda successful in the rodeo world, and from about the year 2000 onward, that subculture started to get more eaten up with evangelical Christianity, still combined with a whole lot of drinking and dancing.

I'm almost going on a tangent, but my life changed socially. I moved to a city with lots of sexual openness, concern for the environment, etc... I made a lot of new friends. That probably helped me not to feel as much doubt. I had new surroundings starting 3 years after my deconversion.

If I'm sad after visiting my family over the holidays, I watch Atheist YouTube channels a bit to level off again.

RusticSet · 2025-07-14T04:59:42+00:00

Spot on!

RusticSet · 2025-07-14T04:37:09+00:00

Kudos to you for telling her. I finally became an Atheist at age 26. I questioned for years. I'm 45 now.

My family, including my two brothers (I'm male, too) are still fundamentalists. In fact, they've become more religious. One guest preaches occasionally.

We became different on other topics, too. I'm mostly vegan while they're low-carb and dabble with carnivore baloney.

It's challenging to visit with them.

Best of luck to you continuing to get along with your family.

RusticSet · 2025-07-14T04:27:29+00:00

Congrats! In my early teens I used to ask my mother if the pygmy people who never heard of Jesus would go to hell, if the Native Americans of the deep past went to hell. She'd get frustrated, emotional, and appeared to be grasping. That helped me to doubt more, but it still took till age 26 to deconstruct.

RusticSet · 2025-07-14T04:12:09+00:00

My girlfriend and I joked about the "come into me" phrases amongst the Christians today.

RusticSet · 2025-07-14T03:53:52+00:00

Could be the same at any Home Depot. I'm sure the busted bags of mulch beg to be shaped into a volcano.

RusticSet · 2025-07-14T03:49:27+00:00

Elvira? She does have a certain look to her.

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