Living Secluded, Alone and Totally Isolated

[starlite9]

One thing that affects some people that live by themselves for a log period of time in a remote locationis that after awhile they start to morph into a different person with very poor social skills at best.

There has been times when I have flown into a place where some guy has been for months and they either talk a hundred miles an hour saying nothing but jibberous and mostly incoherant. The other extreme is they are paranoid and you could get shot.

Just having a simple thing like a radio can make the differance between being sane and off the edge.

Nowdays you can have Satellite Internet to hundred of channels of TV. Whatever a person does, they need to have some kind of interaction with people.

[marmac]

I still recall what my cousins wife said about Alaskans.

Her and her husband lived in Alaska for awhile years ago and he was a carpenter.
As he neared retirement age, he would reminice about Alaska and maybe moving back.

Her reply was-----" Most of the people who flocked to Alaska from the lower 48 were people who couldn't get along with anyone so they went to Alaska"

I think--" most"--might be an exageration.
" Many,many"--------might be true.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by marmac

I still recall what my cousins wife said about Alaskans.

Her and her husband lived in Alaska for awhile years ago and he was a carpenter.
As he neared retirement age, he would reminice about Alaska and maybe moving back.

Her reply was-----" Most of the people who flocked to Alaska from the lower 48 were people who couldn't get along with anyone so they went to Alaska"

I think--" most"--might be an exageration.
" Many,many"--------might be true.

Well there is a certain amount of people that come here with issues and that doesn't go away.... An A$$hole is still one after they move here if they were one before they moved here.

The kid that died in the wild in the "Magic Bus", thought he was running away from problems, all he did was bring them with him and died because of them.

I had flown over the bus a number of times and he made no effort to let people know he was there, matter of fact, I think he was trying to hide. There never was smoke from the stove during daylight hours. There were tracks in the snow, but from a plane, you see game tracks that crossed them and can't tell the differance from 1,000 feet up.

The story has repeated itself over and over in Alaska's history.