Off the Grid

“I didn’t really go to school, but I did learn some useful things. When something busts you learn how to fix it, or you die. No Coast Guard, no 911, no tow trucks, no garages, no Walmart.”

This Quora thread on what it’s like to live in the middle of nowhere is really fascinating. The person at the top of the thread found it to be, well, lonely: “I feel damaged from so many years alone.”

Photo: Andrea Pokrzywinski

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