Going off grid. I wouldn't do it, because of lack of medical care.

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#3160178 16-Nov-2023 15:08

Senecio:

I grew up in Queensland where everything did try to kill me, but thankfully without success. In my time I was bitten by a redback spider, an eastern brown snake, an estuary bull shark and of all things a koala!

ROFL. You are a walking talking advertisement for Australian Tourism if ever I heard one.

You should make a youtube ad, wear a bikini, talk about all the stuff that tried to kill you, and then say at the end 'so where the bloody hell are ya?!"

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#3160214 16-Nov-2023 16:30

And then there's this almost winner of a Darwin's award

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#3160215 16-Nov-2023 16:30

networkn:

Rikkitic:

Don't see the need for quotes. If they say they are married, then they are.

Agree to strongly disagree. Neither if he says he is an elephant, will that make him an elephant.

Shades of Mrs Grundy! If someone with a robe and a black book hasn't approved it and stamped it, well ... it just isn't quite the real thing. Whatever will the neighbours think?

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#3160216 16-Nov-2023 16:39

Don't even start on the Irukandji jellyfish. You can't even see the damn things!

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#3160218 16-Nov-2023 16:49

Rikkitic:

Shades of Mrs Grundy! If someone with a robe and a black book hasn't approved it and stamped it, well ... it just isn't quite the real thing. Whatever will the neighbours think?

Give me strength! It doesn't need to be a minister nor involve a bible, any official who can issue a marriage certificate can make her his wife.

If he walks around calling her the president of the united states, is she? If not, why not? I mean, he called her POTUS so it must be so!

/me smdh.

We are no longer talking about being off the grid, it feels more and more like we are heading off the reservation.

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#3160333 17-Nov-2023 07:38

Back to the off-grid property, it's geography is a bit odd.

It's a high elevation canyon, off of Dillon Mountain New Mexico (not to be confused with Dillon Mountain Alaska)

It looks like either/or terrain. It's either near a river and grassland, or covered in trees.

Perhaps ranchers cut down every tree where it's walkable.

Not sure what the weather's like, but I can imagine it being cold.

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#3160388 17-Nov-2023 08:19

You say the nearest town is 50km away, albeit a small town. Everything is relative, Americans travel 50 km in the morning just to get crap Starbucks! To them it’s just around the corner.

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#3160392 17-Nov-2023 08:46

I'm guessing if you live in the town of 50, excuse the pun, incest is all relative.

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#3160449 17-Nov-2023 10:28

Sounds like a prepper's paradise!

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#3160480 17-Nov-2023 11:22

Remember the first nuclear weapons test was in New Mexico. The mid west of the US is full of military targets.

But the elevation would be good for climate warming, if you could grow your own crops.

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#3160488 17-Nov-2023 11:52

kingdragonfly:

"Scientists have recently revealed that Australia and New Zealand are best placed to survive a nuclear apocalypse and help reboot collapsed human civilisation."

Quit telling people. They will all want to come here.

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#3160494 17-Nov-2023 12:09

I picture a typical Kiwi family sitting around the barbie savouring a glass of after-dinner wine as they enjoy the nuclear sunset, when they suddenly notice hordes of starvation-mad walking dead appear over the horizon from the north on ships and tanks bearing guns and bombs and ravenous appetites.

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#3160495 17-Nov-2023 12:12

kingdragonfly: Back to the off-grid property, it's geography is a bit odd.

It's a high elevation canyon, off of Dillon Mountain New Mexico (not to be confused with Dillon Mountain Alaska)

It looks like either/or terrain. It's either near a river and grassland, or covered in trees.

Perhaps ranchers cut down every tree where it's walkable.

Not sure what the weather's like, but I can imagine it being cold.

One day I have a slight interest in visiting a proper ranch. They can be vast and in some cases they are like mini towns themselves it seems. it seems almost inconceivable to me to have to travel for 2 days to check on a flock of something or rather, but apparently it can easily be that.

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#3160496 17-Nov-2023 12:19

Going off the grid has nothing to do with lowering your living standards and/or living out in the sticks far away from civilization and decent hospitals/medical care.

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#3160506 17-Nov-2023 12:54

wellygary:

Its New Mexico, so its pretty dry, There will not be huge amounts of snow, Annual precipitation is only 15 inches, (~40mm) -You can get that overnight in pretty much any part of NZ<

When recording precipitation that lands as snow, do they record is as mm of snow, or as the equivalent mm of water? Because snow is 10-80% water, so potentially 40mm annual precipitation could be 400mm of snow, if it all fell as snow in extremely cold conditions. 400mm probably wouldn't be enough to stop a determined genuine 4WD, especially if it was all only 10% water.

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