Family Life

[Luci_ferson]

(10 March 2013, 16:46)MaryN Wrote: So many of the posts I have seen on here seem to involve the writer heading off (post troubles) on his own into the bush to play hermit or "lone wolf". Interesting proposition, but are any of you planning to round up any of the outer circle of your families, such as parents, siblings or even other relatives, to try and help them survive?

Just to expand the thread a bit further, have any of you considered communal living. By this I mean sharing accommodation and skills to help each other along?

Some years ago I spent two years living on a tiny island in the Pacific, and looking back and, in context of all the info on this site, I realise that it was pretty similar to some of the scenarios outlined here. No electricity for the native dwellings, grow, fish or forage for food, and a general very strong sense of community. Probably very similar to many of the third-world countries in the world today, and so different to the civilisation of the UK. What strikes me now is how vital cooperation was to that tiny community. More hands helping with the fishing nets meant more fish caught; more help with building huts helped everyone.

I just wonder if the concept of lone-wolfism would actually work for very long - I suspect not.

even with all the prepping and planning ive had to go through, and the fact i know I can survive just about anything (already have a lot of things).
Ive still got this thing constantly eating away at me, and thats familly and doing whats right for them. (the times of just me are long gone)
Luckilhy i dont bother with my sister, and my Bro is dead. but I still worry about my mother and her husband.
Sadly they are both old and frail and frankly theyre bordering on dementia.
I know I cant realistically do anything to help them without endangering my own familly (this sucks).
So id say regarding familly worries yep ive got loads.

as for your question about comunial living.

even with everything ive got and already done, id leave it all behind tomorrow if there was a self reliant comunity somewhere that would take me and my familly in right now, and teach us their ways.
Id join the ahmish if theyd have us.

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would my familly want to,
my misses probably would, but the kids would hate me for it.

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if id been with you in the pacific id have never come back,

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sounds pretty much like heaven to me

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great thread by the way, it reminded me that no matter how stupid us sophisticated folk get, theres still places left where people live right.