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Anonymous09/01/25, 00:54No.2838506
I want to quit society and live out in nature.
Where can I do this, and how should I prepare?
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Anon09/01/25, 01:05No.2838512
you cant
if you are asking here it means you dont have the required skills or knowledge to survive away from the safety of society
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Anon09/01/25, 03:39No.2838529
I'm nowhere near where I want to be, but here's a list of things I've done over the past few years that might give you some ideas to start. Keeping in mind, I originally wanted to be a woodland hermit, now I want to start a homestead.
>Landscaping experience to learn to manage tools and different plants/trees etc
>Working for farms or farm internships for whatever you want to learn, many people on sites like WWoof have survivalist experience, is you can parse through their shitty liberal politics.
>Invest in outdoor survival training, programs like BOSS and some in California will teach you literally anything, but you have to pay a good price.
>Invest in outdoor survival books: John Plant's Primitive Technology, SAS survival handbook, and general knowledge on weather and foraging and hunting, etc. Books on homesteading,
>Invest in doing some long term hikes like the PCT or the AT or the CDT, just to get a feel for what you want to do, that way you will be stocked up on food and close to civilization if you fuck anything up.
>Watch a ton of videos of different people online. If you want to be completed disconnected check out like Tom McElroy and related content for good advice, or if you want to still be connected slightly maybe check out ForestAnon or that guy that herds goats in washington, both hobo lifestyle.
My advice is to cut our and outright remove anything you don't want to be distracted by, sell your irrelevant books, sell your gaming console, get a dumbphone, and eliminate as much distractions so that you can focus on gathering the skills for what you really want to do.
It's possible, but it's hard, and it will take a lot of time. But if you are really committed I reckon you can expedite the process by just committing every day
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Anon09/01/25, 07:03No.2838555
Stop posting this over and over againDo what you wanna do for 2 weeks. Then you'll probably think it's enough and go back to normal.
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Anon09/01/25, 22:00No.2838664
If you need to remain in the US then Alaska would be best option I think ? Watch documentary called Alone in the Wilderness with dick preonneke and that should give you a pretty good idea of how to do it well. I don’t know what the best place to do this internationally would be maybe Russia or China ?
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Anon09/02/25, 17:24No.2838757
>I want to quit society and live out in nature.
Why?
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Anon09/02/25, 18:42No.2838759
find somewhere with steady seasonal work
you can't sustain yourself alone in the woods, so fill the gaps with money you earn seasonally
there is a reason that people are social creatures who have always lived in groups
you can never, ever quit society
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Anon09/02/25, 22:32No.2838800
Think it’s maybe a bit of a red flag, or possibly a complete waste of time to want to start doing something that’s incredibly dependent on initiative and self reliance— and your first fucking step is a two sentence post on a Mongolian rabbit herding message forum??
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Anon09/02/25, 23:34No.2838812
Oh I don’t know.. something about his experience level, location, desired biome, budget… etc?
Spoon feeding and coddling has never in the course of human history helped anyone.
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Anon09/03/25, 12:05No.2838886
>This board has some people with a lot of knowledge on a lot of subjects
lol
LMAO
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Anon09/03/25, 17:59No.2838916
Get a shitty backpack, some clothes, and a green/earth bivy. Then stealth camp and go to churches for food. Works for the homeless.You can get from place to place by walking or hitching rides on trains.Or much more difficultly, you can go into the national forests and stealth camp here and there. Food is much harder to find if not impossible. Water is probably easier than being homeless since you don't have to worry about viral contamination as much. And there are animals that will try to eat you so bring a pistol.Would be easy out west but would also have to contend with much more dangerous fauna.Where are you located? I’ll train you little one.
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Anon09/05/25, 02:17No.2839091
Highways along forests are good places to scavenge. When I was homeless I'd drag roadkill into the woods, butcher with an old hatchet and knife. A well built fire can dry out what you can't eat. Jerky is rather easy to make, and pemmican too if you don't mind staying in place for a few days. Where I live in America you can camp in the wilderness for around 10 days before needing to vacate that site. I'd bury provisions underneath large rocks or unique trees, and come back months later. I had a lot of failures but I survived three winters like this.
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Anon09/06/25, 08:34No.2839253
>I want to quit society and live out in nature.
Like every other edgy kid?
>Where can I do this
Wherever there's nature, and you can "quit society" without getting the cops after you. As long as you don't mind paying taxes and having some interaction (selling produce or hosting tourists, everywhere.
>how should I prepare
Depends on what exactly you want to do. Farming? Hunting / Trapping? Animal husbandry?
Where / what climate?
Can you afford land, or do you maybe have land you can freely use (commonwealth crown lands, for example are supposedly legal to use for homesteading - didn't check myself though, since I'm elsewhere)?But since you apparently didn't realize those questions were relevant, I assume you're starting from zero. In that case, start with
>cooking your own food
>keeping food stores (canning, salting, fermenting etc - you shouldn't need to go shopping more than once a week, or once a month if you don't buy your meat.)
>maintaining steel tools, mending clothing
>basic first aid
All of those you'll need no matter what you do in the end. The rest depends on your specific plans, for example, I'm keeping bees and chickens, have two fruit orchards, and around 5000m2 garden land. Soon I'll also get my hunting license, and start renting rooms to tourists. All of those need specific knowledge, that'd be useless if I was trapping in the yukon territory, for example. Yet both allow you to live without wageslaving, or ahving to conform to society beyond selling produce and showing guests where the guest house and the parking spots are.
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Anon09/07/25, 22:49No.2839525
>single mother with 4 kids
>work part time job that takes so little out in taxes that I get 3x back at tax time
>receive section 8 housing, cash and food assistance, dozens of free healthcare appointments every month, free daycare, thousands of dollars a month in welfare
>mfw some good golem says the vagabond who sleeps inna bushes and takes $190 a month in foodstamps is just the worst human being out to exploit societyHaha wait until you find out about my cousin who doesn't work at all and gets neet benefits, you treat him like he's normal when you see him at the movie theater but you recoil in disgust as the backpacking hobo. Curious.
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Anon09/07/25, 22:57No.2839527
Become a woman and start posting naked thumbnails to your videos. Otherwise you'll be just a homeless guy living in the woods
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Anon09/07/25, 22:58No.2839528
>No dude I was totally homeless but there's no way to get food besides handouts and working a normie job.>Money is literally everything bro, without money how are you going to buy shit to distract you from how your life sucks? bro please just work a job, there's no way you could ever be happy without working. Money is the only thing that will bring you happiness, and the only way you will be able to get food. Seriously bro, I was homeless, for realsies.
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Anon09/07/25, 23:10No.2839531
>no dude you don't understand I lived like a homeless traveler for months and even hopped trains but I didn't take any pictures
>I mean I did take some pictures but i'm not gunna dox myself bro cmon
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Anon09/07/25, 23:26No.2839533
>yeah man I've been there, I've done that (for a few months)
> I'm still obsessed with money
>I mean yeah I already had my family connections and previous life that I just went back to but I definitely was homeless for a few months
>Yeah man I totally hopped trains but it wasn't very fun (despite what literally every person who has ever hopped a train says)
>yeah man I worked on farms doin farm work, for farmers. you might have heard of it, it's called farm work. Special work that requires seasonal laborers at specific farms called farms, where they harvest farms and other farms. Did I mention beets? Nah, it was just a farm. I totally have been a homeless traveler by the way.>No, I can't post a single picture of a camp spot, my backpack setup, a picture from a train showing off beautiful countryside in far off nature that people don't get to see
>Did I mention how important money is? I was homeless by the way
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Anon09/07/25, 23:58No.2839537
>you didn't earn that food that was thrown away to be wasted
>you're a bad person for eating it instead of making sure it was wasted, what would your ancestors think??
>Lmao you surf on society but I noticed you're also inside of it so if it ever goes down you're totally fucked mr hobo, unlike me, mr jack of all trades who has it all figured outCome back anon, I want to hear more about how biking a few miles over to the dumpster to get these things and then taking them back to my camp isn't 'working for my bread' or somehow exploiting society in some seriously harmful way. Tell me more about how I haven't learned anything in the decade I've been doing this, picture related I didn't put it together and wire it or anything while working at north america's largest sports and recreation show. People like you are a dime a dozen, ran back to mom's couch and figured your life out which turns out, revolves around money and being a good ''''contributing''''' member of society by spending money, your only measure of value.
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Anon09/08/25, 01:18No.2839565
Lel another one
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Anon09/08/25, 18:35No.2839664
>"A flea once said to an ox, "How comes it that a big strong fellow like you is content to serve mankind, and do all their hard work for them, while I, who am no bigger than you see, live on their bodies and drink my fill of their blood, and never do a stroke for it all?" To which the ox replied, "Men are very kind to me, and so I am grateful to them. They feed and house me well, and every now and then they show their fondness for me by patting me on the head and neck." "They'd pat me, too," said the flee, "if I let them. But I take good care they don't, or there would be nothing left of me."
>Aesops Fables: The Flea and the Ox
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Anon09/12/25, 03:53No.2840166
I could eat that whole bag right now.
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Anon09/12/25, 19:49No.2840228
Pack some food and water in your van. Cannabis too, if you smoke. Then head into the woods and see how long you can handle it.
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Anon09/12/25, 19:56No.2840232
You got a discord? We can discuss this. There's a lot of learning to be done beforehand.
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Anon09/18/25, 15:37No.2841078
Why does /out/ always promote the worst places to go live in ? It's always Canada or Alaska. And then you expect people to hunt or farm. You need hundred of thousands to afford land.I've been to tropical places where you can just grab mangoes and coconuts off the ground because nobody picks them up. And I don't need a passport to go to these places. Even the rain is warm there
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Anon09/21/25, 18:53No.2841517
This is what career criminality is for.
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Anon10/06/25, 15:53No.2843658
>30 year old
>it's fucking over
This isn't even remotely true. You are the crab bucket.
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Anon10/06/25, 18:08No.2843676
It occurs to me that /out/ should write a copy pasta or something about "quitting" society. These threads are so common it's kinda pathetic
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Anon10/06/25, 21:15No.2843693
>Where can I do this
nature
>how should I prepare?
just go
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Anon10/06/25, 23:14No.2843704
I kind of want to to the same but I have no money saved, I do have a 10k credit card though. I was thinking of ways I could turn my credit card into cash and I thought about buying 10k worth of gold and then selling it back to a different gold merchant for cash. I expect I would probably lose like 1-2k in the transaction but then I would have enough money to last months of roaming and living out.Is there any reason this wouldnt work.
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Anon11/11/25, 20:01No.2848709
Would it though?
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Anon11/13/25, 15:32No.2849023
Is this even possible in the US? Doesn't seem like it is.
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Anon11/18/25, 00:39No.2849865
this might help>quick a disaster. lets picnic at the park
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Anon11/27/25, 15:52No.2851256
look up forestanon
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Anon12/06/25, 00:11No.2852557
you can't
humans have always, without exception, lived in and relied on societies. right now the impact of civilization also happens to be global. you can minimize your exposure to the world but leaving it is a fantasy and these threads suck.
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Anon12/12/25, 18:22No.2853410
You can't anywhere in the US unless you own the land and pay taxes on it. There's plenty of cheap property in the South, maybe in Alaska. They may also require road access.
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Anon12/19/25, 06:37No.2854451
/out/ poster with an anthropology degree here.
you can't, division of labor and complex economic interactions means you cant live out in the woods by yourself without going full stone aged.
no man can do more than a few things alone, really the moden world is hell. only the Amish have any chance at freedom and I say they they are only 10% independent on the most extreme end.
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Anon12/24/25, 14:42No.2855125
The best thing you can do is buy some woodland and then dump a caravan on it.
You will still need to wagecuck, but can do it seasonally if you have good relations with someone who runs a business.
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Anon01/02/26, 01:18No.2856097
Sadly, you are no longer permitted to exist anywhere unless (You) pay (((someone))) for the privilege, be it property, taxes, or groceries.
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Anon01/02/26, 13:24No.2856133
Is there any sort of commune that people can join nowadays that just focuses on homesteading?
I think a lot of people would be interested in joining a community where you just work enough to feed, clothe and shelter yourself while spending time with a community. A community that does not exist at all in the 9 to 5 corporate world of today. Maybe if you are lucky and born as Amish which you wouldn't even be here.
We get these threads all the time because people are devoid of any semblance of a community in our individualistic society. The thing is, a community was the system that worked for us the best.
I don't disagree with OP wanting to innawoods living but it would probably be better for him to find other like minded folk and foster some sort of social network he would like to have.
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Anon01/02/26, 14:05No.2856139
Maybe you can move into one of the abandoned villages in spain or italy.
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Anon01/04/26, 07:03No.2856369
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Anon01/04/26, 07:09No.2856372
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Anon01/09/26, 19:05No.2856955
I swear I've seen this exact thread before post for post. This is a botted demoralization thread, isn't it?
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Anon01/10/26, 11:04No.2857044
>Where can I do this,
Rural Alaska, particularly native villages that are cut off from the road system.
>and how should I prepare?>Location
Pick a village with a low crime rate, ideally one with a VPSO but no VPOs or TPOs. That makes sure that the tweakers stay in check, but you're not being badgered by some faggot at the behest of the tribal council.
Research which villages are cool with whatever ethnicity you are. There's one village near Anchorage that straight up ran two white families out and stole their houses. Nothing really got done about it. Make sure you don't move to some cartoonishly racist village.
>Sustenance
Most villages love violating hunting regulations, so as long as you're not stupid you'll be able to hunt all you want. Some really native villages have a "your first moose kill goes to the village elders" rule, so just avoid letting anyone know if you get one. Net fishing is the go-to in the village, and you can get all you need for the year in just a few months. Smoke it or find a way to keep it frozen and you have food all year. Get a botanical field guide to help with herb and berry identification.
>Environmental considerations
If you're on the Cook Inlet, you'll have decent weather comparatively but a lot of the land is marshy. Mosquitoes are already bad here, they're much worse along the inlet. If you're in the interior, you better have a SOLID insulation setup and some way to keep your shelter airtight. It is currently -40 in some parts of the interior. If you're on an island like the Aleutians or anything directly facing the Pacific ocean, you will need to be prepared for tsunamis. And volcanoes. And typhoons, I guess.
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Anon01/24/26, 13:00No.2858799
There's a guy named ForestAnon who lived in the high desert and built a shelter out of Douglas Fir trees. Look him up on YouTube