@Ludwig, Thursday, 24 April 2014 9:14:18 AM

In answer to your question, it would be better of course. NathanJ needs to think more broadly, for example the increasing urban sprawl to house Labor/Greens 'Big Australia' filled to overflowing via their 'open door' immigration policy.

It is also understandable that you might want to flee from that. Or should we use 'their' PC idiom (used for other purposes) and say your are 'evolving' from urban life?

I am jealous of you of course. My family is still weighed down with all of the 'necessary' consumer goods. However we are more moderate and restrained than most. Again, NathanJ has not figured the energy costs of those, or the social impacts.

There are many very pleasant people to be met out there wandering, enjoying the simple pleasures and conserving resources. Best of all, away from the whingers who are constantly looking in other people's backyards and telling them how to lead their lives. I am so glad the rubbish was taken out in Canberra recently. That should be a regular ritual. By goodness, the hive has been buzzing angrily since though.

LUDWIG/QUOTE..<<..But I am thinking about throwing away the house keys. Selling up and just living on the road!>>

I DID IT FOR 10 YEARS..but govt DIDNT WANT ME PRO*TESTING..in the street/so they forbid me from driving..now i blog at the b's instead
but living on the road mate was great/but then you come home find they disregardful ya car/and suspended ya license..cause yo never got their road tax fines

BUT YEAH LIVING ON THE ROADWAY..IS GREAT
every night a new group of real people to meet

Crikey, redundancy...the fools..dont know what they lost

<<I wonder how living in a camper van or caravan or just out of your car as I do a lot of the time would compare to living in a house?>>

i lived in a bus..its prefect..SHOWER TOILET KITCHEN
MOTER BIKE..metal detector and pans/satellite dish..some solar cells
and a bank of batteries..making hydrogen gas

<<>.If there was a large trend towards this, would it be better or worse for the environment... and the economy and social fabric?>>

it would all improve..money needs be seeded arround/not sent to wollies then the big bank..it needs fall here and there/go to fun/learning investing..ENTERTAINING MEETING GREETING DOING

INTERACT WITH THE LIVING
attend a rainbow gathering..or blog about this or that..where the action is at/

instead im back home welded into a chair.under self imposed detention...INSTEAD OF AT THE MARDIGRAsS IN NIMBIN PREPARING FOR MY DATE WITH FATE
6 MAY..IS JUDGMENT DAY..

But I am ..not..thinking about throwing away the house keys.
and..yes...im like a bird in a cage [animus mandEnDI]..watching the days roll on by..the same same same..

yep im insane/but by what right did govt declare war on me..make me enter into the paper fiction world of commerce..that enslaved me..by what right you mongrels

damm caps..hit delete
i really should hit the road..but im so angry..no one has the right to be this angry/yet every day the anger grows...by what right?

[que warrento]..?

A boat is better Luddy.

If you go off in a vehicle, unless it is a rugged 4WD & you go hide, someone will want a kings ransom for parking for a night almost anywhere.

With a boat, there is the worry of the odd cyclone, but there are thousands of places to anchor up, & food comes up right under your boat just for the taking.

Get a bit more adventurous & get out to the islands & you've got it all. Just a hundred or twos dollars worth of basics, & another for trade goods, [stick tobacco, fish hooks & line, & radio batteries], & you are covered for 6 months or more.

If you're into luxuries, just add a bit of fuel for a generator if you like reading at night, & to power an outboard, if you are too old to row a dingy, & you've got it all.

Actually I reckon it would be a better idea to crush all bikes, & outlaw pedestrians, they all just cause annoyance, & get on with our mobile civilisation. Once we have to go back to horses, just watch the road toll rise, along with the smell.

Nathan J,
Sure, when I'm allowed to carry half a tonne of sand,twenty bags of cement and a pack of fence palings on the tram I'll give up my vehicle.
Hey here's a thought, how about we ban the Green/Labor voting middle class extravagances of online shopping, Taxis and home deliveries, that'll get tens of thousands of vehicles of the road. You can all walk or ride your bikes down to the local high street and...y'know, buy things from a shopkeeper? Like we did in the "old days" of the 1980's "Yes sir, we can order that book in for you, it'll be here in a week and we'll phone you when it's ready to be collected".

Hasbeen,
LOL, I once read a book called "Bearbrass" about early Melbourne, horse and cart accidents were common, they'd roll over at the drop of a hat, pedestrians were always being skittled, drunks would fall off and brain themselves on the road or get trampled by their horses and they even had a special convict detail to go around digging out tree roots and stumps which were a common cause of vehicular mishaps.

Dear Nathan,

Bicycles are great.

But of course they're a problem for neanderthals
with short legs and big tummies. (joke).

Then of course there's our politicians...
As long as our politicians want their perks -
like their chauffer-driven cars (costing the
taxpayer more than $4 million for them to be
driven around). Cars are here to stay.