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I just checked and it looks like my part of Washington State isn't serviced...
Sounds like a good deal after comcast quoted almost 14k to run cable.
Is wireless broadband really a viable option and competitive?
Sorry for the dumb question.
By wireless broadband you mean "line of sight wireless"? I have it as backup at home and it sucks. Good enough to check email and watch Amazon Prime most of the time (because they buffer the hell out of the stream), for the rest it is slightly better than dial-up. In most rural areas there is one provide of line in sight wireless and they get overloaded very quickly. Definitely not worth $60/month I am paying but I am getting raped because there is no competition.
We have line of sight (I think) and it has worked wonderfully so far. We had satellite at our old house and it was the worse thing ever. EVER. Luckily, our phone company (small and independent) was able to get faster and cheaper service during our time there. We ate our satellite contract fees and switched.
Does anyone have plans for living semi self sufficiently? I don't want to live a fully self sufficient lifestyle. I want electricity, want a functioning toilet, a real house. Nothing wrong with going all the way, I just know it isn't for me.
I'm 24 and have spent the last couple of years mulling things over. What do I do for a job? Do I go to college? I can't see myself doing the same exact position for years on end. I would go crazy. Hell working 40 plus years so I can then chill when in 65 sounds like a joke. I've always been into gardening since I was younger and had good sized plots when I lived with my parents. I've since then have been into making my own bread, mayonnaise, sugar, everything. There is something special about growing a pumpkin and when the season is over you can then compost the roots, stems, and leaves while saving the pumpkin seeds then using what is left for pumpkin pie.
I've dreamed of owning chickens and not having to go to the grocery store and check if eggs are broken among with 6 other people doing the same thing. Tinkering around with rain barrels....are you kidding me....sounds like fun! Growing your own stevia plant to make a sugar supplement....what could be funnier. I thrive for this stuff.
I know I will have to have a job....which I do. The goal is to save enough in expenses to end up working part time. I don't understand the "work all day, play on the weekends" culture. I want everyday to be fun and enjoyable. Being self sufficient (semi self sufficient) is fun and enjoyable to me....it is my passion. I don't get the make x amount of money and then blow most if it on a fancy car or a 3k sqf house. This feels like enslavement to me. I don't get why I work 5 out of 7 days for what seems like my whole life. I'm changing the status quo.
Were still looking for a house to start this venture. Surely people in this forum has been semi self sufficient for years compared to this beginner.
Honestly, very few folks are truly self-sufficient; most are "semis" anyway.
In my opinion, being fully (or very near fully) self-sufficient is at least two full time jobs by itself; it would be virtually impossible to do it while also working a 9-5 job.
Anyway, there's nothing wrong with starting various aspects of self-sufficiency as a hobby and seeing where it takes you!
I work about 30 hours a week, to draw 2ok per year in loans/grants. and I get similar sums from my Filipina and from my apartment building. $40 an hour, tax free, not so bad, for just studying. there will be another apt bldg soon, and another gal giving me money, too. Then another and another. they get a very good deal, so do the vets who marry them.
I work about 30 hours a week, to draw 2ok per year in loans/grants. and I get similar sums from my Filipina and from my apartment building. $40 an hour, tax free, not so bad, for just studying. there will be another apt bldg soon, and another gal giving me money, too. Then another and another. they get a very good deal, so do the vets who marry them.
Wonder how people ever LIVED without the Net and cell phones. :-) What a laugh people are. If I couldn't get it for $20 a month, I'd just do without it. The income from the apts and my gal aint welfare, pard, and I didn't set up the loan system. So complain to those who DID. not to me. :-)
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