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05/04/14, 05:33 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Maine
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Would you move to a new world where homesteaders were welcome?
A couple of comments and complaints here about moving from states that impose too many controls on homestead-style living prompts this. I know it sounds like science fiction, but ...
Assume that a new Earth-like planet becomes available -- around another star, in a parallel universe, via time portal to 200,000 BC, whatever -- would you be willing to move there with your equipment, animals, etc. despite knowing that you would never be able to return? This would literally be a new colony, starting fresh from the ground up, no infrastructure, no or very little contact with the Old World, with an initial group of, say, 5,000 people.
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05/04/14, 05:50 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ohio
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If I had no family to keep me here? In a heartbeat!
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05/04/14, 06:05 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: W. Oregon
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NO!!!! We are too old to change and enjoy our life right here....James
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05/04/14, 06:55 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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I'd go! (It would be easier, though, if I was younger.) My favorite science fiction has always been about settling new worlds.
Kathleen
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05/04/14, 06:58 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: British Columbia
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Would you move to a new world where homesteaders were welcome?
If the new planet only had plants growing on it I would consider moving to it but I would not if it was already inhabited by ANY other living creatures. If it had original inhabitants living on it I would do everything within my power to discourage humans from invading it.
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05/04/14, 07:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Eastern Washington state
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Nope!
I like sugar in my coffee and syrup on my pancakes. Gas in my truck and chainsaws and diesel in the tractor. Kind of fond of radio, tv and internet too. And drugs when I go to the doctor. And doctors. And hospitals. And glass in the windows. And foundries and plants to build new 'stuff' when what you brought wears out.
Show up with only 5,000 people and you MIGHT survive but that's about it unless you give most of the things we all "need". Check on the lifestyle when there were only 5,000 Europeans in the Americas. That's where you are headed - without the constant resupply ships.
Many 'Third World' countries are a lot closer and don't have building codes.
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05/04/14, 07:27 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Nope. Don't especially ENJOY it here, but I tolerate it here. Kids are here. I wouldn't have anybody interested in caring for me when I hit 100 LOL
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05/04/14, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: cny
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all my equipment etc?where do I sign up?
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05/04/14, 08:20 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: North of Omaha, on the banks of the 'Muddy Mo'
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Twenty five years ago, I would have been at the head of the list. I grew up with dreams of Heinlein's 'Farnams Freehold' an a future goal. But now, at 47, with arthritis creeping in, sciatica making me limp, eyesight worsening and slowing reflexes, I look forward to sleeping in my own bed, with heat and air conditioning at the touch of a button. I don't have to lug water, (except to the chickens, and I should have the broken pipe fixed shortly), I enjoy being able to take hot water for granted (most of the time, my new water heater is on lay-a-way), and when I had chest pains a few months ago, 911 was in my pocket.
I love the idea of giving up the problems of this world, and blazing a trail thru the universe, but at this stage in my life, I will have to pass. I guess that our forefathers were made of sterner stuff tham I am.
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05/04/14, 08:21 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Texas
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depends. if it is some peacenik, tree-huggin, free love, hippie commune with no hunting or fishing, no 4x4's, and no Texas.....count me out. 
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05/05/14, 12:34 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Kitsap Co, WA
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I haven't found that society is so restrictive or hostile to homesteader mentality. Satisfaction comes from within, anyway.
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05/05/14, 12:47 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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When you guys and gals get there, be sure and take a minute to drop us a postcard and let us know how it is going.
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05/05/14, 01:51 PM
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My name is not Alice
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: On a dirt road in Missouri
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New planet, same people? Why waste the gas. How many years before a government is erected and we are right back at square one?
But, just to play along...Yes, I would go.
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05/05/14, 03:05 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Michigan's thumb
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When my grandfather came to this country he assumed he would never go home again to Scotland. When my grandmother came to this country she and her sisters assumed they would never go home again. That’s just the way it was.
Forty years ago, yes I would have gone. Now, we are sixty and can’t do everything we could when we were younger. We also have grandchildren. No, I’ll stay.
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05/05/14, 04:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Western WA
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The only way I'd do this is if you could guarantee me an unlimited data plan for less than $15 per month...
Oh, and also, I'd need to know the proposed male/female split of the initial 5000. I may be older, but I'm not that old, and I need plenty of women on my planet. 
On a slightly more serious note, I'd have to pass on this venture as I have too much invested - time, experience, relationships, and memories with family and friends in my current colony to not be with them.
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05/05/14, 05:25 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Tx
Posts: 1,442
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If I was under 40 yrs old again... Heck Ya.
Now? Hmmm, Can I force all my kids and grandkids to go?
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05/05/14, 05:44 PM
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Northern Wisconsin
Posts: 1,300
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Well, before you go, make sure you know what they serve for dinner.
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05/05/14, 06:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Kitsap Co, WA
Posts: 3,025
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Gosh, what a white male world was portrayed on TV back then! (Well, not counting one Asian and a space alien...)
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05/05/14, 06:51 PM
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zone 5 - riverfrontage
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Forests of maine
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Having already moved to Maine and starting a homestead here; I can not imagine a more inviting location.
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05/05/14, 07:50 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: In an RV... Crossville, TN right now
Posts: 1,631
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Probably not. Too many connections back here I don't want to walk away from.
Not saying that there might not come a point at which I'd be willing to go... just about anywhere else. I know it's getting bad when "third world" countries are starting to look more free and full of opportunity.
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