• wolfinthewoods@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I live about 15 miles outside of a small town (~20k) in a trailer park on the side of a mountain. Been here 6 months and it is AMAZING. Super quiet at night, can see the stars and it has a great view of the adjacent mountains nearby.

    It’ll most likely be awhile, but the plan is to save for a small piece of property with a similar rural location. In my teens and twenties, I used to think that I’d live in the big city, but as I got into my late 30s I couldn’t stand being in the city much. I don’t mind being able to visit occasionally, but city life just isn’t for me anymore. Too big, busy and noisy. Give me a nice, peaceful spot where I can read and enjoy nature quietly.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Do you get around by walking the old school way, or do you use these newfangled automobiles that are killing the planet?

  • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    40 old me looking at a screen with SSMS and Azure: Instead of an engineer like my father I should have been a tailor like my mom… Or a carpenter…

    • msprout@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      It’s never too late to enter carpentry. I know quite a few programmers who do carpentry as their main hobby. Something about the math and the amount of careful planning is highly transferrable, I guess.

      • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Whenever I try building something with wood, I get so frustrated that it’s not version controlled. In software, I can fearlessly try dumb stuff because I can just roll it back if it didn’t work.

        • wheelie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 days ago

          This isn’t brick laying or plastering. Carpentry is an easy job on the body.

          • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 days ago

            If you think carpentry is easy on the body I can tell you’ve never worked for or as a carpenter before.

            In either case carpentry is a massive world. There is a lot more to being a carpenter than making furniture. If that’s all you’re doing as a carpenter than I would argue that you aren’t much of a carpenter and your experience is highly limited.

            To me this is like calling yourself a computer engineer because 2 hours a week you write Visual Basic code in an excel spreadsheet.