Living Alone In The Wilderness. Video. True Story.

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I'm not living alone.

I like having a wife and women friends. I hate "cheerleader syndrome". My wife has always been pretty, but certainly not soft, certainly not stupid. If you can't respect someone, why keep them around? Slavery is illegal and it makes God mad. A female friend of mine is a senior Army officer. All the women in my life have been strong. Why would a man be intimidated by such? I don't get that. I like kids if they are disciplined and of my own blood. I've been an alpha-male-image for women's boys, especially when their absent fathers were unworthy / non-respectable. Being a grandfather is easier than being a dad. I like to teach kids life skills and work skills -- this must be a genetic behavior, for otherwise I'd not get within a 100 ft of a pack of screaming stinky kids.

I like people who are respectable. I like people who are smart. A person smarter than me is someone from whom I can learn. When I make a male friend, I seek out someone who knows stuff that I do not know. I hate people who are full of themselves. How can you learn if you believe you have already reached the mountaintop?! If possible, I'll be learning the very last day I draw breath. There are universes out there. I am not sufficient unto myself.

Does a man or woman need betake himself/herself into the wilderness? The very Christ did. He returned to live-out his Mission, of course. I know of no Prophet who did not head out into the wilderness in solitude, none who did not return. Virtuous Ruth, great-grandmother of David, betook herself to the fields of Boaz. We hear the voices of our ancestors only when we have quieted ourselves. The Prophets hear / become The Word of God. We as mere humans return to our duties in this dirty world.

Oh what a beauteous bounty, death -- the final freedom, the release.
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Alone in the wilderness no matter how serene should only be a temporary thing and never a permanent thing!

 

In the event of a total societal breakdown, you will need to go someplace at least a hundred miles from any city and it needs to be BIG as in hundreds and hundreds of square miles. The woods down the road from any sized city are going to be filled with want to be Daniel Boones.

There are places like this in Canada and in the Pacific North West but There just aren't many places that have the kind of forests that you can make a living in that doesn't already have a local population. Russia has a lot of places that are as big as Great Brittian that are just about totally uninhabited. There are very few places like this in the US and probably none in the British Isles.

I live in the Sam Houston National Forest area. That is a little over 160,000 acres of forest. Even in that, you can hardly find a place that has no sign of people. To me, it is a resource but there is NO way that I want to be in it with a bunch of frightened refugees. I used to actually live backed up into the National Forest and wouldn't go into them the first two weeks of deer season. Too many idiots think that you have to open deer season hungover from the camp party the night before. For me, booze and guns don't mix at ALL.

I don't think that you will be able to be totally left alone and out there all by yourself you will be pretty easy pickings for hungry refugees that are finding the woods to be a lot less welcoming than it looks on the TV shows. Even if you don't like people you need someone to have your back. Without that you will eventually get hurt, get sick or get ambushed and that for one person alone is a possibly lethal problem.

If you are going to try and go it alone you need to go WAY back and into a possibly inhospitable place. Then you don't want to make very much of a mark on your surroundings. You will want a group of people to almost walk through your hideout without them noticing anything much to make them hang around and look for you. No day time fires and only small sheltered fires at night so you don't give yourself away. If you plant a garden and build a nice log cabin home those things will make you a potential victim of anyone that is hungry, homeless and without honor. At first, there will be a lot of those and they will be out on the fringes because the more organized places are not going to put up with thieves and lazy bums.

If you can make it for a few years things will get better and the people thin out and the population finds a new level. The scoundrels that you need to fear in the early periods won't last long without the cops and judicial system there to protect them. There is a reason why Billy the Kid was called that. It was because like most of his kind he didn't last very long and became dead before he grew up into a man. When everyone works HARD to put food on the table and a roof over their heads they take it real personal when someone steals from them.

 

The Eskimo live in small villages, generally less than a thousand. They have greater than average wilderness skills, though not what their grandparents had. The land will support only 1/3 of them. In other words, if the supply system crashes 2/3 of them will starve in the first year or so. If that population can't live off the land how realistic is it...

 

My family group live close to each other and work as a team . I have had people visit and were quite surprised to find the ethics and living style we embrace . As a small group I suppose that doesn't qualify as living alone . I would have no problem if we were the only people on the planet as I am not depending on society to rebuild any social order or system to resurface . In practicality however I don't expect all of my neighbors to perish even if the apocalypse lasted for many years simply because this area is an area of high ethics and many preppers . Few have prepped to the level I and my group has but still would expect a moderate amount of survivors .

 

Did some research and Great Brittian, Australia, Canada, and the US all have about the same percentage of their population living in urban settings. All are between 80% and 85%. The US has had a steady movement towards urban life while the United Kingdom took a steep jump starting in 2000 to 2001.

Interesting statistics...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS