• Moghul@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I empathize with the feeling of living a simpler, happier life, but living like a hobbit would suck for a lot of us.

    Indoor plumbing, sewage, electricity and internet, are all way more important to the kind of people who are on this site than they might expect. In addition to that, if you’ve never lived in the countryside, rural living and basic peasant subsistence farming is fucking awful. You are constantly working maintenance and rebuilding damaged property. You’re always dirty, smelly, and tired.

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      10 months ago

      but like rural people have plumbing, electricity, and internet? the internet one is absolutely trivial nowadays with 4g routers

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        10 months ago

        To my knowledge, hobbit holes have none of those amenities. You can make one of these in a city or suburb if you can get the permit, it’ll just be a strange looking house. That’s not how I interpreted the post.

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          10 months ago


          here’s the 4g coverage in sweden for the Telia network, how much more rural do you want to get? siberia?

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            10 months ago

            Yeah our coverage maps look pretty good too. However, in practice the service can be very hit and miss… mostly miss.