Your Ideal Life

[Mrs. Utah]

I have been thinking about this posr a lot today and could see two "ideals"

I love to make jewelry and have been doing it for a while-I sell some occasionally too-I would love to continue with learning the craft-silversmithing and lampwork-all while living somewhere either in the mountains or near the ocean on a ranch with lots of horses and critters.
Just to be in a place that I love and to learn and create.

The second would be to continue my education and become a midwife. I love what I do as a labor and delivery nurse. I am honored to share in what I would consider to be a very intimate experience with people. I am lucky.
The downside is that I am only with these people for a very short, but intense period of time. I usually take them right to the point of delivery but then turn it over to the physician.
I have "caught" a few babies when the docs can't get there in time, and it is the greatest!
Becoming a midwife would let me take a couple through their pregnancy as well as labor and delivery...it would be a more complete cycle.

[DavidC]

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Whoops, thought this was OOT.

[AAAA]

what many are talking about could be done as a community that found ways of marketing skills on the net and live to pay for some land and talk to felicia lee about how to develop a sustainable lifestyle. the main thing would be to have land that was affordable and close enough to a major city to have access to goods and services of a city, but not the cost.

[Assani Fisher]

Pro basketball player. Retire in late 30s. Go live somewhere warm and beautiful near a beach with my family. Travel and play in all the big poker tourneys.

[Assani Fisher]

Oh and just to add: I would've gotten married around 30 and taken full advantage of the fun life of a pro athlete before then.

[kvp]

Hopefully in a year or two when I graduate I can do the first part of this;

I'll be in Japan tutoring or playing online poker whenever I feel like it. From there I'll leave for HK/Korea/China/Vietnam/Taiwan/etc. whenever I feel like it to visit friends.

I'll stay in touch with friends, eat all sorts of delicious local food, explore, and improve my languages.

After a year or so of that I'll get some sort of job (not sure exactly what) and live in a nice little condo on the 20th floor with a nice city view in HK or Tokyo. I NEED to be in a crowded noisy city, quiet and open space makes me go insane.

[Quinn Warren]

I would own an open-air, seaside palace on the southern island of New Zealand. Around it I would build a small town where all of my friends and their families are able to live as they please.

We would travel by lavish horse-drawn caravans across the island every summer, stopping every night at dusk to eat, drink and party in general.

I would own a ship that I dock in the Andalusia region of Spain. The ship would be used to hunt down pirates off the african coast in the fall.

In the winters I would embark on various expeditions with my friends (Tibet, Amazon, Serengeti) and go surfing in Australia.

[FeliciaLee]

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what many are talking about could be done as a community that found ways of marketing skills on the net and live to pay for some land and talk to felicia lee about how to develop a sustainable lifestyle. the main thing would be to have land that was affordable and close enough to a major city to have access to goods and services of a city, but not the cost.

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Ha, I wish. This is something that I suspect is going to take a quarter century, if not a lifetime. Perhaps in areas with more water we could speed it along, but here, well, it takes ten years to grow an evergreen to even 15-20'. Tough to build a windbreak when trees only grow a foot per year. Sometimes my "cherry" tomatoes are only the size of a dime (or less!!). Hard to be extremely self sufficient here. We'll never freeze to death, but where is the food and water?

As far as the OP, well, I think I'd like to be great at something. I mean really great. I'm a decent vocalist. I'm a decent actress, skater, poker player, writer, etc. But I've never been great at anything, just "good." Good can be disappointing.

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[AAAA]

i bet you are great at what you are doing...you are one of the most popular people on several of these forums. perhaps you are just assuming that is "nothing" because it is something easy for you.

[AAAA]

just point of discussion...making a community on somewhere around 10-40 acres takes an eternity to "finish" but could be dried in with comfortable living quarters and the beginning of an office and town within 5 years and probably less. that would even allow for garden, pond/stock tank of course internet access.

20 to 100 people could start something for about half a million bucks. these days that is not impossible for an extended family.

$250,000 for 10 acres, another $50,000 for water tanks, tractor, septic tanks and propane and another $50,000 for a few trailors for starters would still leave a budget for some outbuildings and taxes.

i believe there are even places that will set up a wireless internet access for something this size for almost nothing.

set up a non profit school and have people come and build adobe, or strawbale, domes or earthsheltered dwellings. add a few fun activities like dude rodeos, spa, chiropractor and masseuses and you have the start of a real retreat.

of course it doesn't take much to have an ongoing poker game...and it would even be legal if it were a home game in most states out west at least.

people bring their skills and willingness to work and enough passive income to pay for food and living expenses until income could be generated by the members.