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How to live on $432 a month in America

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526 points cactusplant7374 | 1 comments | 23 May 25 16:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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AndrewOMartin ◴[23 May 25 18:38 UTC] No.44075300[source]▶
Just make sure you don't get sick.
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Goronmon ◴[23 May 25 18:46 UTC] No.44075374[source]▶
Also, you just need to continually scavenge for "free" water and heat.

Don't forget the free fishing rod/equipment.

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jocaal ◴[23 May 25 19:22 UTC] No.44075762[source]▶
In the article he mentions there is a well at the house. Also blankets and wood fires are free heat.
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jeffbee ◴[23 May 25 19:38 UTC] No.44075890[source]▶
In what way is wood free? To heat even a tiny home purpose-built for high efficiency you'd need several acres of woods to sustainably harvest. For a falling-apart $30k hovel in upstate NY you'd probably need more like 15 acres, and you don't get a 15-acre stand of woods in the deal for that price.
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1. aaronbaugher ◴[23 May 25 19:49 UTC] No.44075999[source]▶
I heat my two-story, not-very-efficient house with wood. I'm not in upstate NY, but not much further south in the Midwest, where we get some sub-zero weather. For firewood, I cut dead or fallen trees that need to be removed on a neighboring farm, so they're "free" (not counting the cost of saw, chains, gas, oil...).

So yeah, you do have to have some timber available. But if you live in the kind of place he's talking about, there's more than enough to go around. Most of the land where I live is in crops, but there are enough trees along the creeks and in rough areas that all the people burning wood don't make a dent in them.