Everyone's Dream

Nah the internet sucks no matter where you live. That cottage with a closed network or something like Secure Scuttlebutt/Manyverse in a little village would be cool though. The town library can have gigabit internet (for downloading media) and a shared local Jellyfin (& calibre, Navidrome, audiobookshelf, etc) server that can be accessed by anyone in town.

Want to play Live Service or online games? To the library. Publish your website or music album or artwork outside of the local loop? To the library. Online classes? To the library.

My gaming rig weighs like 90lb, I'll be running CAT6 to the library thanks
- Or just keep your rig at the library. Makes it so you’re around when the library LAN parties start.

I would prefer the cul de sac of 8 close friends, but still surronded in nature.

and lan party cables?
I think the cottage being a short/medium bike ride away from friends/the city would be a perfect middle ground.
For me and my friends it would be a bunch of small close islands, and then one larger community island in the middle.
I'm thinking something like in Sweden's Skärgård, where there are lots of such islands.
I would like that, but with internet, and lan parties.

Yeah my Father in Law basically has this… but significantly nicer (4bed, 4bath, full kitchen, running spring water, off-grid solar+batteries), up a mountain, surrounded by pine trees, with StarLink internet.

It’s amazing when we can go visit for a week or 2

We basically have this in Ireland. Only instead of a log cabin its an old cottage in the middle of nowhere.

An old cottage with a gigabit connection.

Internet revolutionaries revealing that "eat the cul de sac" was internalized self-loathing all along.

Yah. But also with heat, running water, AC, a convenience shop nearby and some friends. So basically what I already have minus a job.

You don't need A/C.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
Edit: I meant that you don't need A/C in a cottage like the one pictured, not that A/C is unnecessary altogether. I used to live in Texas. No A/C will literally kill you in Texas, but in a wooded mountain cottage surrounded by trees like that, you don't really need it. In my house in WY, the hottest it ever gets inside is 78 with low humidity. Below is the current temp in my room, with computers running, at 2:22PM.
- Yeah and I dont need a roof either, but it sure is fuckin nice
- All depends on the climate your in, and the insulation of your house. You can build houses which don’t need AC even in hot places by going underground or making earth ships. Yet with traditional construction and insulation in many places AC is almost required. Pretty efficient anyway, just a heat pump.
- You don’t need A/C.
  Eh, it's REALLY nice to have right now with daytime highs in the upper 90s. It's even nicer when it's both hot and humid.
  Source: I live in Wyoming.
  So do I.
- You don't need AC now.
  I live in Vancouver Canada, and up until like 2005 none of the lower density developments (townhouses and low rise apartments) had air conditioning because no one really needed it. Our townhouse for example even has windows that aren't compatible with window air conditioners and no one minded until fairly recently. All that's changed really quickly and now everyone is scrambling for air conditioning with heat waves getting worse every year.
- Yeah, no.
  While you might not need it, everyone has a different temperature tolerance and for some people, it is absolutely a requirement.
- I live in the U.K., no one has AC. Some people will say you don’t need AC. If it was free, or even reasonably affordable, and easy, do you know what I’ve had this summer?
  Edit; edited for clarity.
I'm sure heat is covered since it has a fireplace. The others are luxuries I can do without

You want Norway, Sweden and Finland. You can get fast internett pretty much anywhere and a large portion of the countries are just forest. I actually met a guy in Troms who is the only year round resident of an island that has two ferries a week if you book ahead of time and he has fast internett, as well as a lovely vegetable garden and a plentiful supply of fish.

Plus a plumbed toilet and air conditioning.

A composting toilet is all I want and need.
No clogging
No splashing
No waste of water
No smell
I always hate to use a plumbed toilet when we visit friends or family.
- Do u mean 2 sticks and a hole in the ground type of outhouse? 1 stick to put your pants on and second one to fight off bears while u poop?
- Okay but that's incompatible with my beloved bidet.

Lived like that for a while (but with a working shower and not-so-fast internet). 10/10 would recommend. Will do again when I'm done with $CURRENT_LIFE_ISSUES.

I'd rather have a modern house, some housemates and no internet.

I'm workin' on it!

I saw something similar before
- Now the flowers will grow
- Burn a book! Save a tree!
- No wheels on mine.
Wexford county?
Aha! I suspected you'd comment.
Can confirm, the internet here is decent and it's pretty far from people
Are you posting updates anywhere I can follow?
- Nothing consistent. I probably should pick a spot and do a roll-up of the last four years and then post more regularly. I did a little summary about a year ago here --> https://lemmy.ca/post/16843909/7896562
  Since then we actually have installed a deep well, washer/dryer, and two more outbuildings. I'll try to reply to your comment in the next few days with more details if you are interested.
  I also post completely randomly as Bo7a@loops.video and https://mstdn.ca/@solace
That looks a lot like where I grew up, except nicer.

Definitely not, my dream place to life is microdistrict with everything needed close.

Wish granted. Enjoy mosquitoes.

I was going g to comment how I have the thing pictured, but that it comes with several real drawbacks. Not just mosquitoes either. Imagine having to buy and operate your own snow plow to leave the house in winter. Or buying groceries in bulk because the nearest Walmart is a three hour drive.
- May - blackflies
  June - mosquitoes and blackflies
  July - mosquitoes and deer flies
  August - mosquitoes, deer flies, and horse flies
  September - All of the above, and start to worry about stuff freezing.
  October - Whew, I can finally work outside
  November - Start the fire, and keep it going until April.
- Totally agree. But how much those drawbacks affect you also depends a lot on where you are located geographically.
And deadites.
Once you get used to them and if you live north of the Malaria regions, mosquitos aren't such a big deal. If you keep getting stung, eventually you will barely notice.
- I live in arctic Scandinavia, the mosquitos will fucking exsanguinate your ass.

Not me. The rural part? Yes. But I can smell and feel the wet. In this type of place, you’ll be in a war of attrition against insects of all types. And mold and wood rot. Then there’s the wild animals or scary horror film neighbors.

Ticks.
- the ticks have gotten so bad in recent years, it's actually a main reason I wouldn't want to move farther out from the city.
  my dogs are too low to the ground and too fluffy to find the many ticks on them after being outside. hell they get ticks even inside city limits (in the green spaces) here.
  we stopped taking a wonderful forest route at my parents' with them because it's just not worth finding ticks on them over the next 48 hours and having them crawl out onto you at night
I lived here for several years. Every time you walk outside, an insect will find an orifice.
Set a fire in the fireplace, it sorts out the humid inside aor

I've lived out in the rural before. I'd only do it again if there was a pharmacy that was open more than 9-5 mon-fri within a reasonable driving distance, a grocery store, and at least one good restaurant close by (it's nice to be removed from other but boy does cooking for yourself every meal get old fast).

I went and had a pile of kids so I have to do it everyday. Oh my god I’m tired.
And what was I thinking?
- Every time you figure out what's for dinner bam you gotta do it again.
I don't understand this at all. I go out to eat like 4 times a year, and that's only on long car trips I end up stopping at a fast-food joint. I was amazed when I found out city people think of McDonald's as cheap food. Y'all must be made of money.

I'm not sure about the fast internet anymore. The internet is cancer and getting worse.

I think you are confusing the internet with people.
- If you consider corporations as people, yes.
I did it for nearly 3 years with limited access.
You get over it eventually and start living life instead of watching other people live theirs.
I can't wait to unplug again.
- Why did you disconnect? Because of location or work or what?
This right here. Just disappear into the woods and forget about the doomscroll in its entirety.
If one day you wake up in your cabin to a bright flash in the sky so be it, and least you had a good life.
slow internet is better, like slow food :D

Hell no lol

Internet is useless compared to a proper well. Water - good

Everyone I know who lives in the woods has a well functioning well. None of them I know have fast internet.
- Everyone has fast internet in the Nordic countries, no matter how rural they live.

This sound fun for like 3 months. Like I'll get some random medical issue and then have to go to the hospital. Like what if I sprain my ankle, what if the cabin got termite infestation and I need to repair it. At some point I'm gonna need civilization

That's why the cabin is propped up on the rocks
- I see houses propped up by concrete pillars so it's just a frontier way of leveling off the house
That's what the internet is for
You don't need to go to the hospital for a sprained ankle
- Yeah I was trying to think of some minor injury that woul require attention. Like your chopping food and you cut yourself or you step on a rusty nail. I could go up in severity but the point is you will need medical attention or access to medicine

Also without the Necronomicon in the basement, please.

- Bless you

I want this, but with an irrationally large Evil Dead esque cellar, for my hobbies.

I don't need it to be big. Just a small metal box with no entry for insects please.
- You can keep it optimally dirty to avoid some insects (the ones who avoid mammallian products) and only deal with the ones which seek human smells/other molecules.

Internet's not the only infrastructure you need.

Speak for yourself, carbon lifeform
( /j )
It is if you live on the coast. Boats will get you anywhere worth going to.
- Can you actually order a boat ride or boat delivery online? Is there boat Uber now?
"I can farm my own food"
Not with that tree cover and acidic soil.
A well, septic tank, and solar can replace water, sewer, and electrical utilities. ATVs, dirt bikes, and snowmobiles (depending on location) make roads unnecessary. What other infrastructure do you need?
- at some point, you may need an hospital and an ambulance.
- Depending on age you'll need medicine and heat/AC. Fridge or some way to preserve food( yeah there's ways to do that without electricity). Guess most of this is under electric utilities, but it's hard to get consistent electricity and batteries are expensive
Need or want? Build it by a stream you can boil the water and you have fish, shit in the woods no need for a toilet.

idk about the internet. kinda makes me sad these days

Me, living in Wyoming with gigabit fibre:

Yes it's a bit of a flex but I sold everything I owned in order to own a humble old house here and I am proud of it. Cow poop walls? No regrets.

meh, I'm too anxious and would end up fitting a bunch of security in and on the house

I find that most people that romanticize this sort of middle of nowhere living tend to only consider it from the point of view of that time period in their lives when they are healthy and able to go years without needing convenient access to medical services.

Old people tend to want to live in the middle of nowhere the most. They just also expect the elder healthcare to magically be just as good.

Sometimes I wish I could understand why people want this. I grew up in the middle of nowhere and it's taught me that some REALLY fucked up things can be visited upon you by the 2 or 3 neighbors you have living 20 miles away and not even guns can save you.

Well there's two different things that people who relate to this picture may want: either the nature or the solitude (sometimes both); for the second, part of the fantasy is that they would never have to deal with anyone.
In reality what people want may be completely different, but the picture passes the message better.
- either the nature or the solitude
  i think this is why i don't get it: growing up in the middle of nowhere taught me that nature can fuck you over in an instant multiple times and living in suburbia gave me a cold & painful dose of reality when it comes to solitude.
  i suppose it looks nice if you've never experienced enough of the dark sides of nature and solitude.
You mean... Wendigos?
- only if you're lucky.
  humans are much worse.
- Chupathingys are real
I fucking hate people. I’d be tempted to set traps on my property so I never have to see people. Come at me neighbors
- you'll get one or 2, but the rest will just cut off your supply to water/food and wait until you come out from dehydration or starvation and then get what they want from you.
I feel like there's a story here
- it's the same story as it is every where capitalism is in charge: rich people want to get richer by taking land that isn't theirs; they get the local gov't to cut off water and salt the land to make people leave; then people leave.
If you really want an understanding I'd recommend watching the first season of Alaska: The Last Frontier
- i grew up in the middle of nowhere in the mojave desert; i've had my fill of nature for the rest of my life.

So a Finnish summer cabin? I mean it is heaven tbf

Ah yes – cold and drafty, that's the way we like it.

I prefer houses not made from the same material the heating system uses for fuel.

You'll have to chip me out of my coal house.

I have zero desire to live like that to be completely honest with you

my dream is the complete and final destruction of America and the false state of Israel

And Russia, North Korea, China, El Salvador, etc. right?
- China is underrated tbh. And El Salvador appears to be doing quite well
- Why would I want the destruction of a few third world countries that are minding their business and Russia?

I’m ok without internet but plumbing would be nice

Genuinely laughed! Thank you (also this is me)!

Absolutely not. I'd rather be able to walk to a variety social spaces and not worry about being eaten alive by bugs when outside.

And plumbing, electricity, water.

Hell naw, that's where they'll find me dead. Horror movies 101.

Everyone that only socializes online and is basically an asocial hermit, sure. Don't be fooled by the echo-chambers we reside in!

I mean I imagined living there with my wife
- If we had our friends and family nearby, it would be ideal for us as well! But without them, idk.

Add a road nearby so I can get stuff delivered, and I would never leave.

Not trying to attack you, but I absolutely hate that delivering even minor stuff is the norm now. Has absolute, "make the peons do it" energy.

I'd love a stone or brick built eco build version with full insulation, solar & battery supplemented with and ground or air source heat pumps. I saw that dream house on my last winter trip to Scotland. My sense of making it!

The older I get, the more I realize Ethoslab has it all figured out

Who needs expensive new stuff when an old tissue box works just fine for over a decade?

I don’t like mosquitos. Forests are fun in the fall and winter though.

Absolutely not

Not my dream

Can’t decide if AI or not AI

My vote is for non-ai. Look at those rocking chairs. They actually make sense. Even the best image models would trip up on complex geometry like that. Also the window on the top right. You can see through to the window on the opposite side of the cabin and see some of the green foliage through it. It looks very "abrupt" in the sense that I don't think that a model trying to come up with the most statistically likely image would just put a fragment of green in the window like that.

Would like a variant on this, the bugs and darkness of the woods would drive me insane:

On a field, farming optional
Add a soldering station, solar panels, well with pump, and septic tank
Perimeter tripwires and defense (nobody's coming to help if something happens)
Tornado shelter with medical supplies and a healthy supply of 3D filament

And I'll finally be able to complete everything on my bucket list that doesn't involve travelling.

I don't need internet if I can live without it

the place i would love to vacation in for a few weeks*

I want to go back to simpler times

Sign me up!

Why not?

AI slop, AI slop. Fuck off with this unlabeled slop.
- Bad attitude, bad attitude. Fuck off with this pointless complaining.
- Not sure why you would care either way, it gets the point across. Were you hoping to rent it?
- Not AI it's one of the cabines wich you can rent on vacations (if you at least drive an Bentley or Ferrari)