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As someone employed at a university, very young, right after successful studies and a fast professional career with many projects in my own studio, I reached the position of assistant professor.
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I keep asking myself whether I should leave my job, move somewhere outside this exhausting city, grow my own food and reduce my expenses to a minimum because in the city that is almost impossible.

This vaguely rhymes with what I recall from Luke Smith's path in the days of yore. If you don't know his stuff, it might be worthwhile to check it out.
Scattered among his many linux videos, he's also got a few opening up on his motivations for leaving academia and settling somewhere in the boondocks.

One thing to keep in mind with investing a lot more into developing your own land and costly things like energy systems, is that it makes it easier for the system to coerce you.
Depending on how much you pissed it off, or plan to do so, you may want to consider attaining a higher degree of location independence.
Or in terms of The Sovereign Individual: you may need to minimize the state's potential return on violence.

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This vaguely rhymes with what I recall from Luke Smith's path in the days of yore. If you don't know his stuff, it might be worthwhile to check it out.
Scattered among his many linux videos, he's also got a few opening up on his motivations for leaving academia and settling somewhere in the boondocks.
One thing to keep in mind with investing a lot more into developing your own land and costly things like energy systems, is that it makes it easier for the system to coerce you.
Depending on how much you pissed it off, or plan to do so, you may want to consider attaining a higher degree of location independence.
Or in terms of The Sovereign Individual: you may need to minimize the state's potential return on violence.

Thank you for this comment. It truly means a lot to me. Comments like this are exactly the reason I want to start writing more and putting my thoughts out there.

I absolutely agree with you. I am seriously thinking in terms of going off grid and embracing minimalism. I also agree about mobility. Without it, we become too tied down and more vulnerable than we realize.

And Bitcoin is exactly the point where we both align. It offers the possibility of reducing the power of the state over the individual and increasing personal sovereignty. That is definitely something we should be striving toward.