So, what's your ideal situation?

topic posted Wed, April 4, 2007 - 1:07 PM by  offlineKaya

What type of person are you looking for?

Where do you want to live?

In what kind of housing?

What would you be farming vs. buying?

Are you nomadic or stationary?

What skills could you bring to the table?

What skills are you lacking, that the other could provide for you?
posted by:
Kaya
Maryland
  • Re: So, what's your ideal situation?

    Wed, April 4, 2007 - 1:25 PM
    I suppose if I could live my life over again...
    I would want to live in the forest...the Sierra, or perhaps the foothills.
    Long ago I stayed in what would be called an Eco-house. It was round, the windows opened to the South, it had power cells, it was uniquely designed, but looked rustic. Imagine a 2080 log cabin.
    I'd like to do subsistence farming. Of course I'd buy what I would absolutely need.
    Stationary...I guess I'm a homebody.
    Skills...? Well I was raised on a small ranch. I'm good with trees and plants.
    I lack organizational skills. I'm not good at seeing the big picture.

    The type of person I would be looking for? Easy. My wife Lynn. An organizer, Lover of the outdoors. My lover. Able to put up with my health issues. Hell able to put up with me!

    CG.
  • Re: So, what's your ideal situation?

    Wed, April 4, 2007 - 1:46 PM
    Great, Chuck! Thanks!

    I'm very open about "types", but my answer is in my bio post.

    I'd love to live anywhere REMOTE, but within a few hours of civilization.

    I've been reading up alot. My grandfather built a beautiful home in St.Helena, built into a mountain. It was about 70% out-of-ground. I'd like something similar, but smaller and preferably built w/straw bales or something else sustainable. Defo alt-powered as possible.

    Same as Chuck, subsistent, but willing to buy occasional things.

    Well, at heart, I'm nomadic. But I also like to take breaks from movement. So I suppose it'd be nice to have a good "home base", and travel maybe 25% of the year or so?

    I'm a decent herbalist, I can garden, protect, some building, resource ID and management.

    I'm lacking farm knowledge. I don't know the first thing about live/dairy stock, but I'd like to. And how to convert to Biofuel. That'd be good. I'm not gonna stop learning in the mean time, though.
  • Re: So, what's your ideal situation?

    Wed, April 4, 2007 - 6:13 PM
    Ideal situation would be to live in the mountains on a couple thousand of acers with my farm/B&B completely outfitted.
    Type of person I am looking for? I know them when I meet them I dont want to limit myself to one person I love friends and family
    I like the mountains, West VA appeals to me but I am open to other areas
    Housing would be of my own design but very efficent and versitile.I could survive an ice age in the house.
    Farming most everything I need and only buying luxerys.
    I like to have a home base and to explore from there
    Planning security education leadership I am a jack of all trades master of none type.
    I would want a person for advanced medical and a person for advanced animal husbandry And a mechanic everything else I can do to survive or teach others to do.I have a large educational resource of books and can eather learn to do or teach others to do almost anything with time.
    The only thing I cant teach is spelling I cant spell to save my life.
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    Re: So, what's your ideal situation?

    Wed, April 4, 2007 - 9:41 PM
    Interesting questions. Maybe I am still finding the answers. For now I would like to be nomadic. I have done a lot of traveling in the world and find it interesting to learn what I can from where I am. But this time I think nomadic in just the west somewhere with open space. If I find the right spot then I will build a passive solar living space. Not a house I tried that and don’t like what would be considered normal. So I would design it to use local materials and fit into the landscape. I would farm as much as I could to feed myself my dogs and anyone who wanted to come by and stay a while. Ideally I would want enough land to start an IC. The theme being an to bring together some expertise that would be useful to other communities. As for skills my expertise is electronics, but I am a pretty good all around engineer. I like to build things. As far as skills that I lack. Hmmm well I can’t hunt meat for my dogs. Maybe a mental block against that. What kind of person am I looking for. Someone that I can respect and talk to. I have know a lot of people. I get along with anyone I can respect they can be a PhD or a prostitute I have know both and got along with both type of people. I don’t suffer fools well.
  • Re: So, what's your ideal situation?

    Mon, April 30, 2007 - 6:04 PM
    I'm poly, so I'm always open to someone else in my life so long as they're a good fit with me and mine.

    I want to live far enough from other people that I can walk around naked without disturbing the neighbors.

    Don't need extremely fancy accomodations, but a big workshop and an industrial kitchen would be nice.

    I grew up on a subsistence farm, I have great belief in my ability to grow anything.

    Stationary, but ready to move if necessary.

    Great gardener, decent bush doctor, uncannily good with animals, good cook, great mother, great teacher, level-headed, former archery teacher and some firearms skills, great on-the-spot problem solver and not afraid to MacGyver something until it works. I can sew, make candles, make soap, crochet, knit, generally quite crafty and handy. Good at seeing the treasure in trash.

    I can gut and clean and skin, but I'm a bambi lover; I could hunt if I had to but I'd rather someone else pull the trigger.
  • Re: So, what's your ideal situation?

    Mon, April 30, 2007 - 7:44 PM
    Ideally my situation would be 0% financially-driven, in which case I'd live in the countryside, mostly removed from civilization, but close enough to return as necessary for doses of culture, spare parts, and sushi. The Paso Robles area comes to mind, but I'm also partial to the Owens Valley (both in California). I envision a communal farm/family. Self-sufficient and off the grid (at least theoretically), but not low-tech. Polyamory facilitates the extended-family perspective.

    Who I look for: someone compatible with my life-partner and myself, in ways that complement and supplement what we've already got (abundant love, wanderlust, an appetitve for adventure, two kids from her previous marriage, and too much stuff). I'm not sure exactly what that spells, but I'd imagine she'd be a "she" (although my s.o. might have a different perspective), patient, hardy, eager, and fun. Play it by ear, I guess.

    I like to have an established home base, from which I can explore and adventure nomadically. I'm not a homebody, and enjoy spending as much time as possible discovering new places, people, smells and flavors. But I'd rather not have to lug all the stuff everywhere I go....

    Skills? I'm a tinkerer, innovator, 21st-century smithy. I love to cook, camp, 4x4. I'm handy with electricity and data. My hands like to massage. And I squeeze a mean margarita. I'm lacking an evolved sense of rhythm, scheduling skills, restraint, and proficiency at relaxing the muscles of my upper back.
  • Re: So, what's your ideal situation?

    Thu, May 3, 2007 - 9:14 PM

    What type of person are you looking for?-----Thick, tall, freckled, hirisute redheads with nice feet and junk in the trunk, who are open to polygyny. No drugs. No booze. No tobacco. No goddess worshippers, witches, feminists, or bible thumpers. Good cook and enjoys doing it. Likes dogs. Hates rap and country equally, but likes Dido and S Club 7. Not a princess. JLH, Lacey Chabert, Neve Campbell, Franka Potente, Gillian Anderson lookalikes would be nice, too.

    Where do you want to live?-----Alaska, below the permafrost.

    In what kind of housing?-----Treehouse. Pit house. Yurt. Anything with character that doesn't have a mortgage.

    What would you be farming vs. buying?-----Mostly farming. A little buying. A little bartering.

    Are you nomadic or stationary?-----Right now, I'm pretty darn stationary.

    What skills could you bring to the table?-----Small arms and tactics, CQC, trapping, tracking, physical security, carpentry/woodworking, vehicle maintenance/tactics, primitive food preservation, cunnilingus, where the G-spot is, and I can put up firewood like it's nobody's business.

    What skills are you lacking, that the other could provide for you?-----Advanced/ditch medicine, beyond basic knowledge of edible/medicinal plants, canning, gardening, sewing/weaving/knitting/naalbinding, electronics, blacksmithing, fellatio to completion.
    • Re: So, what's your ideal situation?

      Fri, May 4, 2007 - 7:11 AM
      LMAO!!!
      Tall order ya got there!
      But hey, you're one of the few who knows EXACTLY what they want!
      (I'd say if she listend to S Club 7 though, she may HAVE to be a princess-no offense! LOL...)
      • Re: So, what's your ideal situation?

        Fri, May 4, 2007 - 8:58 AM
        It's funny 'cause it's true... Actually, I've got a list of criteria that's about four pages long--probably why I'm still single--but I didn't wan't to bore anyone to death. Ain't that somethin': a polygamist without any wives. :(

        She/they doesn't/don't really have to "like" S Club. She/they just needs/need to not mind when S Club is playing...or when I add those four girls to my harem. :) Hey, it would be a tragedy if I allowed them to perish in the coming 'pokyclypse. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get four British girls who look that good and have teeth that nice together in the same room?

        Hey, somebody has to repopulate the world after TEOTWAWKI with something better than the current crop of idiots. Might as well be me...and Jo O'Meara...and Tina Barrett...and Hannah Spearritt...and Rachel Stevens...and Jennifer Love Hewitt...and Franka Potente...and Neve Campbell...and Lacey Chabert...and Gillian Anderson...and Jessica Alba...and Liza Snyder...and Rachel McAdams...and Daisy Fuentes...and Billie Piper...and that chick named Donna who works at my bank...and...

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