nobody wants to live a simple, slow life anymore.

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It’s so hard to slow down. But so very necessary.

I have for a long time but there are no jobs that let you pay for a simple life in slow areas. For most people, you have to save up in a fast area and outright retire somewhere slow to achieve that.

That's not exactly true, though, it can help to have a skill that's useful anywhere. I'm a welder. I can literally work anywhere on the planet that there's electricity or access to compressed gasses. And that's really most of the globe these days.

Yeah the key is having a widely needed skill. I’m in a highly skilled sector that only exists in 2-3 notoriously high cost metros, with zero chance of remote. I currently love my work but know it is unlikely to last forever. Always keeping my eye open for when I can start fresh with my savings somewhere cheaper, but that gets harder as I get older.

Do it before you get old. I'm on thy cusp of that and feel the resistance growing every day... But I fight it because I'm less happy where I am now and just want to build a cozy home in the woods.

i live in stl, pay 1200$ for a 4000sq ft apartment, work at home, i don’t drink so i don’t waste time numbing my body with alcohol.

its possible, if you try.

$1,200 for a 4,000 sq ft apartment?! Wow! How did you manage to get that great deal?

good landlords and good city.

I got a remote job. Started in the city with city wages & a city house. Sold the house & got a remote job to move to the country. It can still be done, but you have to be strategic.

Me! Me! I do!

There's more and more people doing that.

I lead a preettttyyy simple, slow life. To the point I often feel embarrassed because I’m not keeping up with the Jones’s. But for me, I aspire to be back in that childhood simplicity.

i live a lazy life

Live a simple life, but not as slow as I would like it to be.

I want ! And I am going to accomplish ! 🤙🥳🙌

You've won the "Completely wrong statement of the day" award. 😜 (Most people I know want to homestead.)

you’re lucky. everyone i know lives so fast and unhealthy. my statement isn’t wrong, it’s just different for everyone

"Nobody" is where your statement is wrong; now by your own admission.

"Nobody I know..." may be accurate phrasing though.

yeah, life moves on.

tons of people do, you just have to find them in real life, not online.

i’m not talking about online though, i’m speaking about everyone i know irl.

You live in a city that's in decline. Why do you expect to find people who want to live a slow, meaningful life in a place like that?

Nice being nobody

That's not true, I'm a nobody and I was a slow and simple life.

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That's all I want