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    homeless

    today i saw a homeless guy in the town,and it got me thinking,in those circumstances would you prefer living in the town or city,or tucked away in the woods,
    lifes good ,but even sweeter under the stars

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    I suppose in the city/town you have easier access to the useful things people throw away...but i would think it would be safer to be out in the sticks tucked away from prying eyes and potential trouble. This incident immediately sprung to mind.

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    jeez sapper thats bad,reinforces my personal thoughts aswell,i.e in the woods you would have privacy,shelter,food, fire and a water source if you were really lucky at least you could wash to a certain extent aswell
    lifes good ,but even sweeter under the stars

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    Ideally you would want to live in a wood, but be near enough to a town go scavenging for materials and food.
    Do you want to be happy or do you want to be normal?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Metal mug View Post
    Ideally you would want to live in a wood, but be near enough to a town go scavenging for materials and food.
    Rond the back of a Tescos would be a good place

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    Quote Originally Posted by jus_young View Post
    Rond the back of a Tescos would be a good place
    Oooo, you could get day old doughnuts.
    Do you want to be happy or do you want to be normal?

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    In the woods... with weekly forays into town.
    Don't sweat the small stuff - and it's ALL small stuff...!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Metal mug View Post
    Ideally you would want to live in a wood, but be near enough to a town go scavenging for materials and food.
    Now that's exactly what I thought. Why people sleep in doorways in big city centres getting beaten-up and p***ed on at night always beats me. There's usually a nice wood on a city edge, like Epping forest - which would be close to the posh charitable folk of Chingford, for example.
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    Live on a large, overgrown roundabout. As long as you didn't have smoke during the day that people could see, you wouldn't get any bother. May have to be a little sneaky getting on and off of it though.?
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    Quote Originally Posted by crazysaint222 View Post
    Live on a large, overgrown roundabout. As long as you didn't have spoke during the day that people could see, you wouldn't get any bother. May have to be a little sneaky getting on and off of it though.?
    Yep - but remember to give way to the right

    We have two blokes living under polythene tarps a mile or two from here - never bother anyone. Lost their jobs a while ago. Very sad.

    Personally the sticks with visits to towns would be my choice, god forbid.
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