I want to introduce you to a man I like to call cabin boomer. In his late forties this dude said fuck it, bought something like 50 acres a few hours North of Toronto in the Canadian wilderness, and just fucking moved up there with his dog. Started with nothing and used hand tools to build a log cabin from trees on his property. It's expanded to include a cooking area, a sauna/bath house, a hunting outpost camp, and this year he is building a giant workshop so he can complete projects more efficiently in the winter. He has been at it 3 years and just this year he finally sold his house back in Toronto (where he used to split his time) and his wife moved up to live there full time with him. He turned 50 years old this year.
He bought the land in an unincorporated community which means he didn't have to deal with building codes and other bylaws and he only pays something like $300 a year in property taxes. He hunts and fishes for a lot of his food, taps his trees for maple syrup every year, forages for wild mushrooms and plants, and tends a garden with tomatoes and peppers and gourds and shit. He is planning on building a coop and keeping chickens as well.
His main channel focuses mainly on his building and other things related to daily life. His secondary channel shares his thoughts and ideas. He talks about how he used to be absolutely miserable, never satisfied with modern drudgery. Now he is happier than ever and every day is a blessing.
It's only a kuck cabin if someone else built it for you. Wood working is a manly skill.
Eli Robinson
He built it himself using only hand tools, he then went on to build an outdoor chicken, storage shed, and sauna.. in 4 years.
Gabriel Reed
pretty cool. I'm surprised glowniggers haven't burnt it down and killed him yet
Thomas Ortiz
Shawn is based, living the dream, once all his uploads. His vids bring me peace and hope for the future
Nolan Fisher
Indeed, hope his daughters aren't turbo sluts.
Brayden Hughes
Obviously I only know him from his videos but he seems like a tough cunt. Apparently he lost everything in the financial crisis, went 750k in debt then started a new business, clawed his way back to being debt free, and fucked off to build his own paradise.
In one video he mentions his sisters' husbands and how he thinks men these days are weak and stupid. He has two daughters that he sometimes makes videos with teaching them survival skills.
Another thing is he says he had zero professional building experience and everything he learned he learned himself from books and shit and just from going out and doing it and not making excuses.
Wyatt Hall
Because it's illegal in Germany you fucker.
Nolan Smith
It's illegal to buy your own land and live off of it?
Cameron Green
It's illegal to go in the woods and build a cabin. They want you to pay rent, go to work, pay taxes and shut up.
Brandon Mitchell
Sounds like excuses from a lazy German. You'll do anything to get out of work. >I'll just pay a Polish man to build my house
Logan Turner
I just started building things for a garden, planters and stuff, and i have definitely felt like a novice but it is enjoyable to complete projects and you learn a lot doing them. I built two planters one day and the second one was much easier and built better than the first. I also replaced a broken window that my wife wanted to have someone else fix. Now she thinks I’m handy. Yes this is my cuck diary but for unfathered men like me you have to learn by doing—and you will feel very good doing it. That’s what this guy found out
Kevin Morris
He didn't just go into the woods and start building, he bought his own land and started building... you're telling me there is nowhere in Germany you are allowed to buy undeveloped land and live on it?
Nathaniel Moore
I'm in my last year of uni and haven't really done any handywork or anything other than digging out post holes and putting down fencing but my dream is to build something similar to what cabin boomer has. I think there's a bit more red tape here in NZ regarding building codes and such but I know I can make something work.
Ian Long
The only issue I have with this is the labor that comes with this. I wish I had the ethic and discipline he has to enjoy living that sort of lifestyle but personally I enjoy the modern technology and ease of life it produces. It's just a shame that it's accompanied by people and all their bullshit. Is there a way to create that self sufficiency but as streamlined as possible with our current tech for the modern home? Growing your own foods, generating some power with solar, stuff like that
Connor Perry
that's accurate, nor is there in the rest of most of central europe
Liam Watson
Yeah but its gonna cost you a pretty penny. You know, because you'd have to hire contractors to do all the work for you.
Zachary Ross
Anything is possible. He has a couple of solar panels himself and he's mentioned that while his wife has finally moved up with him that she is a little bit more into the creature comforts and that he wouldn't mind compromising and building a larger, more modern home on the property if it meant they didn't have to go back to the city.
Nothing stopping you from finding a remote piece of land and building modern if you've got the money, I think that's pretty much all it boils down to. Plumbing might be the biggest issue but even then there are ways to get that working to some degree, he talked about it in a recent video.
William Fisher
That said it kind of defeats the purpose of self reliance if you don't understand how it all works and how to install it or fix it yourself.
Gavin Morgan
I'm interested in doing something similar in Australia. The only problem is finding a nice big piece of property that isn't a desert that doesn't have a fuckton of property taxes because some liberal cunt next door with his holiday home has a house worth 3 million.
William Turner
Sure you can go live in the woods but I wouldn't use it as an excuse to turn your back on the struggle for white peoples sovereignty
David Williams
The boomer who has over $100,000 in building equipment and tools? The same boomer who explains how millennials can do the same thing using his brilliant plan, he literally says first you need to save $50,000 then borrow the other $50,000 from an angel investor. It's total boomer horse shit. He says failing all of that you split the plot three ways with friends and you all build on the land together. WHO THE FUCK KNOWS TWO OTHER PEOPLE WHO WILL GO THIRDS ON A PLOT OF LAND IN THE MIDDLE OF NO WHERE AND STICK IT OUT FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION?
Then you've got the issue of now being in the woods to get away from it all but with two neighbours 150m away. That's not to mention road access. If you're up the back of the plot and the guy at the front has a falling out with you then youre cut off from road access. He also says pick land that backs on to a national Park. Again boomer nonsense.
Then you've got water and electricity to organise and I'm guessing internet will be nonexistent, in the same breath he says you can pay the property mortgage baby working from home. which leads to his other point in his video where he outlines buying out the other two investors if things go sour at which point you then rent the two extra cabins as airb&b holiday homes for $150 a night every weekend. A figure he arrived at based on prices he's seen on airb&b. Who the fuck will pay $150 to stay in a cabin with little to no electricity and water and ZERO internet? Into he middle of nowhere?
Fuck this boomer faggot selling snakeoil and as always OP is a faggot. You idiot, there is no escape you should have been born 100 years ago. Sorry your weren't now get back in your cubicle you pleb.
William Miller
>few hours north of toronto "wilderness"
Ryan Taylor
>Thinking it’s difficult to save 50k You’re never gonna make it
Anthony Morris
no its not its just illegal for the poors and the dumbs
Nathaniel Roberts
>$100,000 in building equipment and tools Source? >save $50k then borrow another $50k from an angel investor When has he said this? >Two neighbours 150m away He is surrounded by crown land. He talked about this in one of his most recent videos. In order to buy cheaper land he bought a plot adjacent to Algonquin where he is allowed to hunt and fish. >Water and electricity to organise He collects rain water, and carries water up from the stream behind his cabin and boils it. As for electricity he has a couple of solar panels for charging batteries and things but he says when he isn't filming or editing he mainly uses lanterns and firelight from his stove. >Internet nonexistent You can get internet anywhere these days, and why do you NEED internet anyway? Are you addicted? >Property mortgage That's why you buy within your means and pay in full. 50k is easy to save.
Seems like you are finding things to complain about. Making excuses. He mentioned going into it with other people if you wanted to, not that you had to. And in any case what would be wrong with doing it with a brother or your dad? Fuck off you fucking crybaby faggot. Weak.
Tyler Parker
>If you're up the back of the plot and the guy at the front has a falling out with you then youre cut off from road access. whats it like being so low iq? derp whats right of way
Austin Garcia
>>Property mortgage you cant get a mortgage on land you fuck wits only buildings and only buildings on land under 10 acres generally I am going to help you retards books.google.ca/books?id=nOcKAAAAYAAJ
Sold his business and is a millionaire, several times over. Was a co-owner of a, major, commercial construction, sheet metal duct installation company, no residential, just new commercial construction. This is not a guy who quit his Walmart stocking job and moved into the woods. Just turned 50 a few days ago. Just sold his "normie" house, it was paid for, more money in the bank. He also makes money as a back country guide. He aslo works for the Canada tourism department , he and his wife photograph their travels. Lot of people and companies send him "free" stuff. Mentions how he lived, after high school in a shack he made with no water, electricity nothing. Was intending to remain a hermit, but went into a bank to cash a check and the clerk asked him out, 2 kids later they both live in the woods. He has talked about not being good being around people, likes to be mostly alone. Is building a workshop, to spend time away from his wife. Been hunting, fishing, farming, living somewhat off the grid his while life. The cabin was made from mostly pre-cut, pre-sized logs from a kit, he pre-asembled it in his normal house backyard then moved it to the property he is now on. Property in inside a wilderness area 2 hours north of Toronto, small town a few miles away, he is locked by government land on most sides, so no other neighbors, he is at the end of a now un-maintained government road. Always easy to go off grid when you always have a nice bank account to fall back on. I would do what he has done, if I had the backup he has, I don't, most of us never will. He is really not that far from the "real world" in the car and off to the store. Nice to have the government lands to hunt off of. Where I live the city requires a permit to plant a lawn or cut down a 6 foot tree. For 99.9% percent of us, his life is a fantasy, people watch and dream, like sports, that could be me...if...only.
Ryder Martinez
>Self Reliance Well this seems like a good place to ask. What are some Yas Forums approved solar panel and mount brands?
