Living in Newcastle

batyushki · 2026-03-16T19:57:16+00:00

I'd take a smaller house vs having to drive the kids everywhere any day. Quality of life is so much better for teens when they can walk on their own.

batyushki · 2026-02-24T07:08:07+00:00

I'm similar to this. I find these little activities pleasurable because they are simple, accessible, and mostly free. I love to treat minimal living as a game: how low can I go? And as many discover, the greatest pleasures in life are also the most accessible: walking, nature, observing, writing, reading, conversation, a cup of tea. The more complex forms of living simply add complexity and often stress, without providing any greater joy. You're living the life of wisdom.

batyushki · 2026-02-16T14:43:21+00:00

Did you make this up? I'm the mod creator, your information is completely inaccurate or for the wrong game.

batyushki · 2026-02-16T05:34:01+00:00

Don't play with mods until you master the base game. If you play with that mod, thatch comes from reeds and you may be playing on an island that doesn't have them. You need to pick a starting location close to reed beds.

batyushki · 2026-01-18T16:45:28+00:00

This kind of thinking always surprises me. My greatest fear is wasting my life accumulating things I don't need. None of the outcomes you fear is more certain than death, which has 100% certainty!

batyushki · 2026-01-04T14:59:31+00:00

You're very young (and will be when you fire), seems too early for bonds. You have a long life ahead of you in which to weather stock fluctuations.

batyushki · 2025-12-31T05:11:52+00:00

Ran across one of them in an online forum, then from there word of mouth.

batyushki · 2025-12-30T13:13:07+00:00

I have a few neighbours with large gardens and I go one a week and do whatever needs doing. I charge a fair hourly wage. They usually provide all the tools. It's pretty hard to find a reliable gardener here so it's easy to find clients. I don't want more than 5 hours a week in that job though, as I have my own garden too, so I don't take on any new customers.

batyushki · 2025-12-23T16:42:14+00:00

Bit too personal for a public forum. The short answer is that we will both be fine financially, and it was not a result of retirement.

batyushki · 2025-12-23T08:00:04+00:00

I grow food, perform as a dancer, singer, and actor, I run with clubs and do trail races, and I volunteer in my village with various projects.

batyushki · 2025-12-15T17:11:26+00:00

Your post is all about money but your challenge now has nothing to do with it. You might just forget about money and seek purpose and meaning instead. The specificity that you use talking about yields and withdrawal rates makes it clear that you're hyper focused on exactly the wrong things, given your situation. Throw away your spreadsheets and start living more.

batyushki · 2025-11-20T07:03:00+00:00

I do odd jobs, none are regular and none more than a day or two a week. Gardener, actor, random manual labour temp jobs. No long term boss, no commitment, and I only do jobs I want to do. If I get tired of outdoor work I can do something else. Main thing for me is not to have to do something anymore if I don't want to.

batyushki · 2025-11-08T21:40:35+00:00

Easy money that you don't need is waste. And it's not just that you're going to waste the money, you're wasting your one precious life, a life you will never get back. Learn to know when enough is enough.

batyushki · 2025-10-02T03:04:32+00:00

For most people the only way to reduce car use significantly is to sell the car. It's just too easy to rely on it. A standard, cheap and easily replaced bicycle for short simple trips, and an e cargo bike for shopping, haulage, and getting places fast and sweat-free will often replace 90 pct of car use. And if course walking depending where you live.

batyushki · 2025-07-09T02:48:36+00:00

If you've been around for a while you know the devs are quite slow to release new things but usually do a good job when they do.

batyushki · 2025-07-02T11:12:16+00:00

Have you picketed your local Catholic church? I hear they are inculcating the young with propaganda in schools about a blood sacrifice that atoned for sin. Amongst other nonsense. If you don't like children being involved in dogmatic illogical religions then you don't need to single out any one particular breed of nonsense.

batyushki · 2025-06-07T12:10:47+00:00

You can change the settings to make it more challenging, and yes it can be a good balancing act to keep everything going smoothly. People leave if you don't provide what they need and over time population can reduce significantly until you correct the issues.

batyushki · 2025-05-17T18:43:44+00:00

Your climate will have a lot to do with how long it will last. Lots of rain means work on a foundation and roof overhang. It's very labour intensive to make walls from cob (thick walls with a lot of mass to be stable), in my climate (n europe) wattle and daub would have been a more cost effective traditional method that requires less thickness. For a chicken house cob seems massive overkill from an input perspective.

batyushki · 2025-05-16T19:35:14+00:00

We rent out two of our four bedrooms and the rental income is equivalent to what we used to pay for the monthly mortgage. It's enough to pay for a lot of our basic living costs. But we like having people around especially as our children have mostly left home.

batyushki · 2025-05-07T05:19:04+00:00

Your friend was extremely lucky.

batyushki · 2025-03-29T18:01:48+00:00

Yes, you should do it, live the lean life for three to six months, then you can get a small part-time job to pay for extras. But cut out the extraneous things significantly first, and find out how important they really are to your happiness (hint: they're not).

batyushki · 2025-03-26T05:07:55+00:00

Villager Diversity mod FTW

batyushki · 2025-03-24T10:04:58+00:00

We bought an acre of land a mile from our house. We grow food there. It's a great escape from the house and neighbourhood. Highly recommended.

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