Post: #76

I have lived my whole life in a rural setting similar to what the op describes. What he describes is vaguely true but he does generalize too much. For example, girls in small towns are banging casually too... theyre just banging one of their guy friends or an ex on the down low.
The biggest downside to living in one of these places is that Christianity is still rampant. So you have to deal with many deluded people.

Post: #77

This might fit in here.

Idealistic young person goes back to the land with no real skills, his only tool a chainsaw. Amazingly, he sticks with it for 13 years, and reflects on what he has learned.

Post: #78

I like the midway point between urban and rural. Not too urban, and not too isolated, either. As long as I have reasonable access to a major airport, I'm good. I also don't like to be so "rural" that I'm cut off from the major centers of action.

Maybe a small country cottage as a second "getaway" is the best.

Post: #79

(06-08-2017 02:35 PM)Mikan Wrote:  I live in the country in the US. Most of my post history on this board references rural living in some way. There are some notable differences between rural America, esp. the South and Appalchia, and Aus.

There are notable differences in different sections of the USA. I will also add that a large majority of the small towns in the USA are suffering big time. Many people overdose on drugs.

Quote:Police - Nothing lazy about rural police in the US, they are everywhere and have some of the highest LEO to citizen ratios in the world. The closest town to my farm has 800 residents about about 45 police, all but 2 or 3 part-time. Their primary function is to use the traffic code as a revenue generator for the ltown.

This is right on the money. It's also the case with many state police.

Quote:Another major difference is firearm ownership. Everyone I know owns at least a couple "farm" guns, a couple shotguns in various sizes and a .22 cal rifle of some sort. Many will also have handguns and rifle collections ranging from "a few" to "private arsenal". CCW permit holding is also very common (I have one).

Yes, lots of people have guns.

One way to gain social proof in many small towns is to volunteer. Many small towns have volunteer fire departments, who will be happy to take on another volunteer to serve the public.

Sports is also very important in many American small towns. If you want to get to know folks in your community, get out and go to high-school football and basketball games. If you have kids, you could even volunteer as an assistant coach or other helper. Getting involved with groups like Boy Scouts and 4-H will also help you, if you already have kids.

Keep your place and stuff looking nice, too. If your house and car are well-kept and maintained, you will be held in high regard. If you don't, you won't have as much respect.

Post: #80

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Post: #81

(06-14-2017 01:54 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  I like the midway point between urban and rural. Not too urban, and not too isolated, either. As long as I have reasonable access to a major airport, I'm good. I also don't like to be so "rural" that I'm cut off from the major centers of action.

Maybe a small country cottage as a second "getaway" is the best.

My ideal is rural towns for rest and recreation and for enjoying the outdoors. And the cities for work.

Post: #82

(06-08-2017 02:35 PM)Mikan Wrote:  ...
Police - Nothing lazy about rural police in the US, they are everywhere and have some of the highest LEO to citizen ratios in the world. The closest town to my farm has 800 residents about about 45 police, all but 2 or 3 part-time.
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Another major difference is firearm ownership. Everyone I know owns at least a couple "farm" guns, a couple shotguns in various sizes and a .22 cal rifle of some sort. Many will also have handguns and rifle collections ranging from "a few" to "private arsenal". CCW permit holding is also very common (I have one).
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In Australia only 4% of the population own guns last time I checked, and I wouldn't be surprised if at least half of that number were rural folk. No CCW but some guys out here have collectors licences and professional pest control permits which allow them to gather quite a lot of decent guns (and write them off on farm tax).

As for speed traps, the last time I saw a manned speed trap was three years ago (I think) and the last time they set up an unmanned speed trap (they put a speed camera in a car that they park on the side of the road) someone decided that a rock through the window, 5 litres of petrol and a match was cheaper than getting a ticket. That was four years ago now and they've never left another one out here to my knowledge.

Post: #83

I want to go to Lehman's.

Post: #84

(06-04-2017 01:53 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Types of women:

Now, country girls can be divided into two categories. Trailer trash and Duchess’. By this I mean girls who come from broken homes and girls that come from traditional unbroken nuclear families.

Trailer trash:

The trailer trash girls are the easier choice and not necessarily as bad an option as you might think. First generation welfare girls can be pilfered from shitty towns around the district and put through a heavy wash cycle before being ironed out and knocked up. It might sound like madness but a country welfare girl is typically not nearly as damaged a rich, progressive whore from the suburbs or city. Country welfare girls are breeders and usually quite capable of running a household. You will need a firm hand and a bit more frame over the life of the relationship. Nobody prefers a “fixer-upper", but running with that prospect is a hundred times more viable in the country than in the city or the suburbs.

The Duchess:

Girls from traditional families with multi-generational links to the region will be a harder prospect. Their parents are more protective of them and will screen you hard, especially if their little girl is a top-shelf stunner. They will be looking for a masculine man that stands his ground, makes good money and spends it wisely, treats their daughter well and isn’t going to wall her off from them the second she gets married.

Ironically I get the sense they prefer an outsider because it allows them to keep the family in tact rather than losing their daughter to another family in the area who will integrate her into their tribe more thoroughly. This option is the best one assuming you choose the particular girl (and family) wisely and in accordance with red-pill philosophy. It gives you the best quality wife as well as access to her family’s contacts in local industry. The disclaimer is that her father MUST be red-pilled and not prone to treating his daughter like a princess. In other words “running home to daddy” must not be a legitimate option for any prospective wife.

One post on another thread reminds me of that:

(11-06-2016 01:09 PM)JohannesAusPrag Wrote:  Hope its not already here, found it while I was cleaning my picture folders.

Post: #85

There's something else I should add about small-town life--towns 10,000 and under. Small towns are about the only places which are pedestrian friendly and bicycle friendly. Small towns generally have grids, so traffic is well-distributed. Mobility is easy for cars, bikes, and people.

This certainly isn't the case for suburbs in America.

Post: #86

(06-18-2017 12:22 PM)puckerman Wrote:  There's something else I should add about small-town life--towns 10,000 and under. Small towns are about the only places which are pedestrian friendly and bicycle friendly. Small towns generally have grids, so traffic is well-distributed. Mobility is easy for cars, bikes, and people.

This certainly isn't the case for suburbs in America.

Because a lot of us grew up in the suburbs, we take them as the normal state of things. We are destitute of culture because they are destitute of culture, and we take our cars as symbols of freedom, and the fact that we have no neighborliness as the same thing.

Suburbs were designed because of cheap oil, and no one ever thought the low cost gravy train would stop. They are, in the words of James Howard Kunstler, a " technosis externality clusterfuck."

I will leave it to Zelcorpion to explain whether or not they were designed purposefully by the ruling elites to atomize and alienate people. I will only say that even if they weren't they have done the job well.

The salient problem about suburbs, says Kunstler, is that "these are places that are not worth caring about."

Here is one of Kunstler's Ted Talk on the suburbs called "The Ghastly Tragedy of the Suburbs."





An intelligent, funny, persuasive speaker, he puts a lot of his emphasis on how the box stores and malls and depressing architecture impoverishes the human spirit.

No real downtown to speak of, no central square, no place for civic activity, everyone tied to the system, primarily by their jobs in nearby cities, and no real time to get involved partially because of their long commutes, suburbs throttle community, and by extension family, through anomie and meaninglessness.

Coincidence or not, this serves the ruling elites, having everyone too tired and busy to think about their lives and go downtown to talk it over with members of their communites.

There is no good reason for walkability or bike lanes, or anything that might make you feel healthy and happy and connected to your community. It only gets in the way of dependence on the car for your lifestyle, which obviously separates you from other people for a large portion of your day.

I would say that small towns, and small town ethos and ethics, aren't only unlike the experience of most people in the civilized world, they are actually antithetical to the plans of the big boys holding hands around the world.


You don't want self sufficiency, or civic pride, or neighborhood associations, or bikable walkable cities. You want a lot of work zombies, over stressed, tired, cooped up in their cars, doped up on their meds, and blue faced from the reflection of their phones.

Think I have quoted this before. Ralph Nader said it best, when he was debating with some cookie cutter conservative. Nader was speaking in favor of public civic spaces, and the other guy said, you can do all that at the mall, the mall is the new civic space. Nader pointed out that it was against the rules at many malls to hand out political tracts. Other guy shrugged.

Nader says, "Hey Thomas Paine, no pamphlets at the King George Mall."

Post: #87

(06-17-2017 05:04 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  I want to go to Lehman's.

This woman at the store, and the people that buy on it are the real environmentalists, not the people going to a run on Earth Day or buy at Whole Foods, these woman know really knows how to preserve, unlike your Eco warriors drinking coffee at Starbusk.

Post: #88

Not everyone has what it takes to emulate the Amish.

Post: #89

(06-19-2017 11:20 AM)debeguiled Wrote:  Not everyone has what it takes to emulate the Amish.

Humans are very adaptable, not by free will, but if Americans are ever forced to go back in lifestyle they will get used to it.

Post: #90

In general you are right. Although my stepdaughter used to curl up into a ball and sob in her room when our ISP went out of service.

Post: #91

(06-20-2017 11:22 AM)debeguiled Wrote:  In general you are right. Although my stepdaughter used to curl up into a ball and sob in her room when our ISP went out of service.

For a while, kids that have stuff to do outside don't feel like that ever.

You don't have to to feel like that when you have to take care of a farm the whole day.

Post: #92

I have an idea career for rural life, lived in a small town as a child, and have often considered returning to it. Leonard makes a compelling case. The cities and the modern west in general are otherwise lost, barren, cultural wastelands.

Post: #93

Living in rural areas vs living off the land are different things, I think people tend to confuse these two.

Living off the land means you are not employed somewhere, your resources come from your land, milk, meat, water, want eggs for breakfast? see if your chicken put an eggs.

This is while hipster try to pretend to be old fashion, they just walk over to the next organic market and buy what they want.

Post: #94

(06-20-2017 07:37 PM)Latinopan Wrote:  Living in rural areas vs living off the land are different things, I think people tend to confuse these two.

Living off the land means you are not employed somewhere, your resources come from your land, milk, meat, water, want eggs for breakfast? see if your chicken put an eggs.

This is while hipster try to pretend to be old fashion, they just walk over to the next organic market and buy what they want.

Yeah, one of the terms for it is homesteading.

A site I like to visit has published a book about it.

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2017/02/wh...ading.html

Quote:Homesteading is not a hobby, a business or an individual pursuit; it is the main activity of a family. It is an essential “lifehack”—a way to get around the strictures imposed on us by a crumbling society that is set in its ways and incapable of even considering absolutely essential changes. It is about insulating yourself and your family from the vagaries of a system that is running amok, and about regaining a viable future and peace of mind.

Quote:So, what is homesteading? It is the activity of finding and slashing every umbilical cord that binds you to the outside, debt-based economy. It is the process of eliminating just about every expense by making the homestead provide food, water, fuel and, last but not least, capital. It is the accumulation of capital, in the form of farmland and livestock, that allows a homestead to pass the homesteading legacy on to the future generations—to the children born on the homestead.

A couple of good videos by the author of the book:

Post: #95

Homesteading is something I heavily advise against unless someone is returning to that lifestyle having grown up with it.

Trust me. You don't know what you don't know. I will be making a data sheet soon on small town living vs homesteading.

Post: #96

(06-22-2017 03:35 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Homesteading is something I heavily advise against unless someone is returning to that lifestyle having grown up with it.

Trust me. You don't know what you don't know. I will be making a data sheet soon on small town living vs homesteading.

Yeah, the dude in the videos I linked basically said the same. All of the hippie feel good books he read did him no good. I don't think he grew up with homesteading, but he was serious about it, and used his head. He moved in next to a bunch of Amish and copied them.

Post: #97

(06-18-2017 02:46 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  [Kunstler video, yeah he's literally called Kunstler]

An intelligent, funny, (((persuasive speaker)))

Yes yes, "the whole world is wrong and I know best", like every typical American coastal city adjective-laden smug arrogant liberal dismissive swearing obnoxious TED speaker social critic intellectual rich fuckwit scraping his nose on the ceiling.

Clap clap, yeah us TED listeners are so clever by agreeing with his criticism of everything.

Man does that guy sound like my old equally know-it-all arty farty university graduate western city douchebag friends.


Anyhoo, as much as I respect Leonard for his hilarious no-holds-barred Aussie posting, he says himself he's really into politics, which is about mass action and social organisation, whereas his country counterparts can't see the importance and don't understand why he likes it. I'm guessing this helps alleviate his need for the excitement of high-population life; it makes him feel connected to it without the parts of high population living he doesn't like.

When I'm in a city with less than one million people I start to feel depressed, that I'm wasting my life, and that I'm getting nothing done and nothing is happening, and that all the tech and convenience available sucks. Don't know if that makes me weird or not. Two million to six million is the sweet spot for me I think.

Then again after I start to have kids maybe I'll too feel the need to get them out of the attention-seeking morally brain-damaging and promiscuous aspects of city life.

Post: #98

Damn Phoenix, you are taking down my boy Kunstler hard.

Print this out. Look at that (((smug))) face. Sharpen your darts. You are going to have some fun.

Post: #99

(06-04-2017 01:53 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Game:
The country is a place to go when you’re done chasing notches, or when you’re ready to limit your pussy-hunting to trips elsewhere. Beyond that it’s not a place for the determined bachelor. If you remain single for long you will be assumed to be gay. Again, you won’t be strung up or run out of town, but the locals will regard you with some measure of distrust which will make life harder in a thousand small ways that all add up.

I'm little concerned about this, as I'll have to live in a remote place from next year.
Could anyone offer some advice on meeting girls while living in a rural area?

Due to my job, I'll spend at least 10 months in a remote place.
There is a big shopping mall, but what you'll mostly see there are families, kids and elderly people.

On one hand, living in such a place will give me more time to work on my own project.
I'm a programmer and, aside from my job, have a software development project for myself (I'm aiming to generate a passive income stream from it).

On the other hand, it doesn't seem like a good idea to completely abandon chasing girls, even in a place where you don't see many girls you like.

So far, I've come up with the following things.

1, starting online game
I've never tried this. But maybe it's a good timing to give it a try.

2, owning a car
I'm foreigner, and I've never owned my car since I left my home country.
But again, maybe I need to consider buy one to improve my mobility.

3, quitting my job ASAP and go somewhere else
This is the last resort.
My job itself is fine and I like what I learn everyday from there.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Post: #100

Travel to game, even if it's just to the nearest city.

Do not pump'n'dump in a country town. There are few to zero "random sluts" in the sticks. Everyone is someone's daughter out here, and even the tramps usually have at least one obsessive low-rent suitor willing to destroy your life and his to prove his ownership rights.