Comments on: A young couple quit their jobs and set off to build a glass cabin in the mountains of West Virginia

By: Katrina

Katrina — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 22:30:00 +0000

I would quit my job and move to the country, only I don’t have a job to quit and land in Australia that looks like that is minimum $250K. ?
I am a bit tired of reading how people have decided to slum it after writing a job. If be interested in more detail, did they work crappy retail low wage jobs or are they just another set of wealthiest with no kids and designer dog moving to the country in a quirky house….

By: Alan Boyle

Alan Boyle — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 21:51:44 +0000

I want to do something similar but with wooden pallets and make a 20ft tall A-FRAME house. The whole structure of the building will be wooden pallets, including the upstairs and downstairs flooring. The roofing tiles will be hand made shingle wooden tiles. I am looking for a plot of land as I type the posting, but nothing is grabbing my interest at the moment.
ALAN
PS anyone fancy a go at self build just go for it, you might even like it. I will go for solar and wind power and a log burner. My goal is to be morgage and fuel bill free

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 14:31:12 +0000

They’re gonna freeze their asses off.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:09:41 +0000

Inspirational. “Just call me an artist”. Thanks for sharing.

By: Jeffrey Lee

Jeffrey Lee — Sun, 21 May 2017 19:21:24 +0000

A simple uniqueness making old things new.
Congratulations!

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:02:34 +0000

If it weren’t for people, talking about what they are doing, you wouldn’t have them to criticize.

By: bmikeyd

bmikeyd — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:13:18 +0000

In reply to ThePunitiveDamage.

So this life works for them but it doesn’t work for you. Wow… we are all individuals… imagine that.

By: B

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:46:32 +0000

C’mon now, fancywordman. You lost all credibility when you called them hipsters. Hipsters don’t do manual labor.

By: ThePunitiveDamage

ThePunitiveDamage — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 02:50:38 +0000

I find the whole thing to be replete with preachy platitudes from “The Hipster 101 Manual On How To Live A Simple Life”. You do realize that there were generations of people before you and that people over 30 exist right? This childlike sense of wonderment that hipsters get over anything vintage does’t pass for wisdom, nor does it make you more interesting than anyone else. Most of the world lives “off-grid” without power or fresh water in the third world, but its quaint as f##k when a couple of colonial 1st world hipster mutherf##kers walk around like they’re posing for a recreation of a depression era painting. Nothing new here. Just more vapidity and trying too hard to seem interesting.

Like many hipsters these days, it’s all about how they look superficially and lacks any real substance. As with a lot of videos like this; it seems Hipsters only communicate with people the same age and walk around bloated with self-satisfaction, describing to each other how they’ve “discovered” something vintage, giving their life heftier existential meaning than it deserves. Like this self-proclaimed “artist” who’s basically re-creating Great Depression era style photography in the same vein as Dorethea Lange, but acting like he’s the first to think of this. It’s not enough to just go live a simple off-grid lifestyle, you have to Video blog about it. Something inherently hypocritical about it all. I’ve always been from the school of thought that an Artist is what others call you after accomplishing a lot of good work, it’s not enough to just wear the hat and dress the part.