Comment by soltanov
11 hours ago
Seeing their life on the water makes me want to close every browser tab, disconnect the internet, and just build things slowly again.
11 hours ago
Seeing their life on the water makes me want to close every browser tab, disconnect the internet, and just build things slowly again.
What's stopping you?
Whenever I hear about people giving it all up to live on a boat I remember Suzanne Heywood's account[1] of growing up like that.
It doesn't look like it was a very pleasant life for her or her brother. She describes it stealing her childhood. That's one reason not to do it.
It's something that looks glamorous from the outside but a bit grim when you really consider what's involved.
Worse things happen at sea, as they say.
(I still love their website and ideas, I just know I wouldn't want to inflict that lifestyle on my family).
1. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/25/suzanne...
I've known people who grew up on sailboats who loved it in retrospect. At least the boys. I was generally struck by their competence & confidence.
Fascinating read. Thank you for the link. It's wild to think about how different some people's lives are compared to our own. I couldn't imagine doing that to my child.
I read the entire article (which is rare for me these days), and all I could think was: her parents were abusive, neglectful, narcissistic assholes. Imagine placing the wellbeing of your children so far down the list of priorities like that. Those people had no business having any children at all.
The comment said close and build slowly. Not live on a boat :)
Bills, dependencies, responsibilities and inertia. Mostly inertia
kids, and understanding that if everyone decides to do this all at once, were (most of us) gonna die of hunger.
If everyone did my job, we're gonna die of hunger.
If everyone decides to do the same activity we die, that's not a really good argument.
I mean, it's not IT jobs that provide the most food, and the people providing food are even more locked up in debt. If you feel, do it, it's not for everyone anyway!
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His partner I guess :-)
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