That was quite the snowstorm you had there!
We are almost at the 45th parallel, meaning our days get down to about 9 hours long around the solstice. That is a lot of dark and winter can just be a bit depressing. I have been in the habit of hunkering down and watching youtubes and playing words games wrapped in blankets and with hot coffee at hand from about mid-November to early March. I called it semi-hibernating, but it was not good for my back, or spirits.
This winter has been different in that respect also. I sit down with my coffee and surf a bit, but then I get OFF MY BUTT and go do something so I can make a steemit post about it. 😁... I am having REAL interactions with people on steemit instead. A handful of real world friends have gotten involved, and we are building a little steemit enclave here in Idaho!
Don't mean to drain the good-feelings vibe, but your story shows why global high-speed Internet will be a huge game-changer for rural real estate. Hell: if I had the knack, I could move to the proverbial cabin in the woods and eke out a living through Steemit! All that's missing is high-speed Internet....
The real world is still there - chop wood, carry water, steemit. :)
Oh yes, and that's why I find the possibility fascinating. Somewhere in the belly of the Internet, there's a movement called "archaeo-futurism" which imagines a future of high-tech feudalism.
The vision I sketched out is a benign kind of archaeo-futurism: a bracing lifestyle or rural self-sufficiency combined with earning a living through twenty-first-century cryptocurrency.
Ya have to laugh when some trendy calls you 'retrograde' six moths before enthusing about this brand-spanking-new thingie called cryptocurrency!
Yeah, I can see that future happening... Sort of reminds me of the last Star Trek series where "latinum" was the money, I keep waiting for that ICO lol!
How's this for a coincidence: I just finished reading a Steemit review of a Cory Doctorow book that explores this theme.
"Walkaway" by Cory Doctorow - A Science Fiction Book Review.
Doctorow's take is essentially "urban," but he's tapped into the spirit I outlined.