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Decided to quit and live another day
Main Post: Decided to quit and live another day
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Smart guy. Knew when to quit, unlike poor Justin Thornton.
When you decide to quit live streaming your course and go asynchronous.
Main Post: When you decide to quit live streaming your course and go asynchronous.
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Streamlining course content is great and all, but will he stick the remount when it comes time for evaluations?
I want to quit my job and go live on a self-sufficient small-holding, ideally in north England. Am I crazy? Any tips?
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TL;DR: Young software developer with no practical experience or savings; I want to start a (potentially semi-communal) permaculture small-holding near Leeds, UK, and live off the land. But how?? And should I?
Hi everyone,
I currently work at a tech company as a software developer in the UK, earning £38K a year. My husband is about to start in the ambulance service in a few months and will earn £18K or so to start with. We are 28 years old and not planning on having children. We currently live in Leeds, Yorkshire and (because of friends and my husband's job) I would like to still live relatively near Leeds.
My previous plan was to save, passively invest, and retire sometime in my forties with a yearly income of maybe £10K or so. However, having just travelled America and spent a night with a guy living off-grid in the desert, I can't stop thinking about the potential 'shortcut' for escaping the system and living by my values: a self-sufficient plot of land, which I can farm using permaculture methods.
I need to find some people who are already living in eco-friendly, self-sufficient, potentially semi-communal off-grid small-holdings so that I can get some idea of what is possible. Ideally if there are people I can visit in the UK that would be great - I'm scared of things like planning permission that are probably a lot more strict here than, say, the US.
I am already day-dreaming about the circular monastery-style house I could build using straw-bales, and buying a caravan to live in in the meantime. My husband is game but he does want a certain level of comfort throughout the transition, i.e. good internet and enough electricity to run a gaming computer and a microwave. I consider these very modest requests given the scope of the upheaval I'm proposing.
Things going for me:
I have a mother who did a masters about eco-building and a lifetime's experience growing veg etc
Supportive husband
I have a friend who has a very similar dream and could potentially be persuaded to make the leap with me
I have several ideas for setting up a youtube channel/patreon/airBnB on the side to eventually provide some income and I'm quite good at crowdsourcing and organising
Things not going for me:
Our house & garden need a lot of work before we could sell it for a good price
Hardly any savings (yet)
I have anxiety and I may just be romanticising everything with the idea that I'll feel calm and stress-free by doing this (ha!)
I've never really gardened before, let alone farmed
Our house does not actually belong to us; my father-in-law owns it, and we're paying him back as if we had a private mortgage. It feels very daunting to go to him and suggest this much less stable and sensible plan to him.
Can anyone point me to inspiration, contacts, success stories? Can anyone suggest what practical steps are involved to go from my normal life now towards breaking free?
Top Comment: No you are not. If you can eliminate debt before hand you will do better!’
Real Racers Never Quit is now live ft. Max Verstappen, the F2 grid, and many special guests
Main Post: Real Racers Never Quit is now live ft. Max Verstappen, the F2 grid, and many special guests
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I wish Williams had this kind of advertising prior to the event. I swear I've seen like daily posts leading up to this event with different bits of information, whereas the Williams event I didn't know about until after it was live.
Ledger Live crashes after updating
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Opened ledger live this morning on my Mac Sierra 10.12.6 and was prompted with an update. I clicked on the update option and the app downloaded the update and I clicked on the option to install the update. The app was closed and as it attempted to be re-opened a message popped up saying: The last time you opened Ledger Live, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again?
No matter which option I choose from this point Ledger Live wont start. I tried removing the app from my mac and installing again, downloading from Ledger.com and installing again and nothing works.
Any suggestions on how to move forward from here ?
Top Comment:
Ledger Live requires a minimum of macOS 10.14+
(mentioned here: https://www.ledger.com/ledger-live/download)