Desert Living

there is a reason most people live in citys and along the coast ..........
It can get VERY boring and it kinda loses flavour quickly, there is nothing out there, few trees and few animals, yes you see stuff on TV that makes it look like there is but it as always shows the best of it and cover in 1/2 an hour the complete range of wildlife out there ...... and the grass is NOT greener over that fence as there is very little grass and the heat in full summer is simply not bearable for the average human as we are NOT built to live like that ...
But everyone to themselfs...
Cheers
Joe

Gday Katz
There are some out there who have been living like that for the past 40 thousand years or so, until they had trouble with boat people.

Many of us do live in the outback and have wonderful experiences of waking up every morning, not to the snarling sounds of traffic but to the calls of the bird life. It is never quiet, mostly peaceful. Everyday is different, different light, different weather, different tasks to be performed. Different seasons and different wildlife and wild flowers. We don't have to fight our way to and from work, we are already there. The backyard is as big or small as our daily experiences want. Sometimes the work is hard, sometimes not...but our lives are full of our experiences, never boring,and never lonely. Another member has suggested otherwise...probably best he stay on the coastal fringe.

Katz,

There's nothing wrong with living in remote areas, such as deserts, but you need something to do, to occupy your days, and maybe make a quid.

Nothing better than waking up to the chorus of butcher birds, magpies and willy-wagtails, and no other offensive noises. Well, we've got all that, where we live in Winton, and it's only spoilt, sometimes, by the locals heading off to work.

To live remotely, you need to provide food, water, power and have a back-up plan if you or someone near to you(or even a traveller) becomes critically ill. Also, you can live in a 'van in the winter, but come summertime the homes in White Cliffs and Coober, take on a new meaning.

When you supply your own utilities, you need to operate gensets, water pumps, and keep them fuelled up, at who's expense??? Also grey & black water may need to be disposed of, or you can dig a long drop. The old dunny isn't too bad, but very uncomfortable when you gotta go, it's 48 deg and the flies swarm up around your............you get the idea?

Ol' Mate in the Castle spoke about "The serenity of it all", and The Banjo wrote about ".....the vision splendid, of the sunlit plains extended" in Clancy of the overflow. They're both right, but mixed up with that warm, fuzzy feeling is a lot of hard work, physical & often mental hardships, all coupled with the "tyranny of distance"
It's usually a bloody long way from anywhere!!!

I've had over 48years on stations in Qld & NT, and probably wouldn't change any of it, but think I'd do some things a lot differently, in hindsight.

Bob.