I recall, it may have been last winter, when you were so cold, no cut wood, you had to come down to the town to somewhere warm.
Yes, winter is coming. I’ll either succeed or die trying in this venture of mine.
It will take all of my skills combined to survive this winter without adequate supplies. My goal next year in the spring is to make a hidden bushcraft makeshift shed to survive out for the next several years. Essentially I’ll be illegally squating on government controlled land. I’m going the Kaczynski route of surviving off the land only without property ownership. 
Admirable, but why not wait a little longer and save a little more money. This sort of plan needs just that. Planning.
You need more money Otto.
Where I am going the winters are much more mild compared to where I previously lived. Temperatures don’t drop under 25 degrees compared to the other location where average temperatures were -40 degrees. So, I got that going for me in my favor.
I don’t have the time, money, or resources anymore to wait it out in my current location. Sadly all of this has to be a sort of sporadic in the moment kind of scenario where I am going to have to make up things as I go along. I will have to be very creative between now and spring.
Do you have unemployment benefits in the U S of A you could claim?
If not, you are saying you can survive on $30 a month! Geez.
Temporary disposable workforce are not applicable for unemployment insurance. All hail the disposable American temporary workforce!
There has to be another way, you said so yourself, there is always a way out!
No, I’m a realist and I know when I’ve been beat! Not in every situation is there always a way out. Yes, sometimes there are no win scenarios where no level of optimism will change any of that. Still, if I survive to spring I’ll be alright. I have ideas where to get food from. Between now and spring my only concern will be food or water along with shelter.
So, let us have a recap here. I have to survive in a dwelling like this an entire winter.
Come spring the goal is to build a structure like this.
Or this.
Are you for real?
Do you think that I would post a real picture of myself in a thread if I wasn’t for real? 
Yes, I am. It has come down to this.
It seems rather masochistic, unless you have been forced to flee.
I will ask no more questions, just wish you good luck in your new venture.
I will not say where my location will be for obvious reasons, I will say it is on the outskirts of a small city I grew up in where I’ll have supplies if I need them along with an area to salvage and scavenge any tools or resources I need over a period of time. I am very familiar with the area and landscape so this is a net plus overall.
More like forced and in the coming years as the United States along with the world descends into chaos I won’t be alone for very long doing this. If anything I am going to have a head start on everybody else!
Interesting times. Keep us informed, Otto West/Joker.
Indeed.
Otto, I didn’t get to see the pic. I never get to have any fun 
He’s got a real victim complex.
Also Joker, how is long hair cheaper to maintain than a bald head? Wouldn’t it take more shampoo to keep it clean?
Also, I think you’d do a lot better in the Florida Keys. Its nice and warm down there, but rustic and slow paced, and everyone is really easygoing. Easy to catch fish, plenty of cheap beer. Its like you’re not even in America.