Documentary about man living self sufficiently - Leeds festival

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(15 November 2012, 23:25)NorthernRaider Wrote: 60 years we have been belittling eastern europe and boasting about our material wealth, and all along they were the really wise ones, boy are we going to pay a price. I think in the coming years posh houses in London will no longer be the " In" things to have, instead buying woodland, allotments and small holdings are going to be the real hallmark of luxury.

+1. Invest in productive capacity while it's still available. Land, tools, the skills to use them, alternative energy sources.

I converted a modest four-bedroom detached piece of home counties real-estate into a three bedroom cottage plus 60 acres of woodland, together with some funds left over which we're using to make the cottage as grid-independent as possible. I know which I'd prefer to have in the coming descent.