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29 sats \ 3 replies \ @ibz 20 Apr 2022 \ on: How do you manage? bitcoin
Wake up, make coffee, chop some wood, start the fire, work on Lightning projects, chop more wood, keep fire alive... This has been my life over the winter.
Over the summer it will involve more time outdoors, for sure! Finishing the outdoor kitchen and the workshop. Making fire still, but for barbecues.
We often visit cities or friends or have friends visiting on weekends.
No children yet, but we are planning to get some sheep and chicken soon and hoping for children also.
Rural Romania is where I have been living since 2013. Done with the big cities. Building up my citadel basically. Back in 2019 I was planning to set up a winter base in a tropical country, but then 2020 hit, I got stuck in Bali for 1.5 years and decided that long distance commute is too much of a hassle and I better stay in one compact area (although not necessarily limited to one country, but easily reachable overland).
Contrary to popular belief, a citadel is not something you can buy with a lot of coins! It's a rather very proof-of-work kind of activity. I started 9 years ago and I am far from done. But I achieved quite a lot of independence. I have plenty of land, including forest and fresh water. I live in a beautiful rural area but not far from a town where I can get everything done. I restored an old farm house and turned it into an art space, where I host exhibitions with local artists. I love collecting art from living artists because I think it is more valuable than Bitcoin (and yes, I am a toxic maxi). As an experiment, I opened my house on AirBnB and it worked really well, so I know I could make a living off this if I had to. In the long run I will probably want to host people more often, but currently it is too much of a distraction plus I am trying to attract a different crowd, not necessarily the AirBnB types. Also I am looking into buying more rural houses and slowly restoring them and eventually building a network of citadels filled with art. If I manage to do that, I can always rent out the ones I am not living in. But again, this is a ton of work - from finding the good locations, to setting them up, and most importantly to having people that help you. You can definitely scale, but it is a very slow process.
What I wish I had more? Time to create my own music. But you can't have it all, I guess.
Wow. This is awesome. An inspiration. I live in a rural area, but do not own yet (it's a rather expensive area of the USA). What do sort of barbecue do you do?
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Where are you based out of? I build live edge/rustic furniture and was told by a friend who restores old barns that my skills would transfer perfectly to that line of work.
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Romania. Yes, it would probably translate well. Also you could buy old barns, disassemble them and use the old wood to build furniture or even bigger structures.
I guess the difference is that the furniture you can build on your own, but for bigger structures like homes or barns you usually need more people involved and that may complicate things. In my case, I was at the opposite end of the spectrum, I did very little myself and hired people to do most things. But even that was a major challenge. I would have loved to do it myself, but then it would have taken much longer and I would have run out of money.
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