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Re:I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it by luckydude on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @08:59PM (#10195606)
ebbv is getting a lot of hate but while I don't loathe the author they do seem a little out there to me.

I'm a techy guy who lives at the very edge of the grid (we're the end of the line for PG&E). I feel no need to tell all of you about our PVC problems or tree problems or fire problems, etc. They strike me as someone with an agenda.

As an example of stuff I don't talk about, we just had a fire up here:

http://mcvoy.com/lm/2015-fire/index.html

2 miles away from my house, kind of scary. I could have made a blog post about that and gotten a lot of attention (maybe) as a techy guy next to certain death. Fire is a thing where I live, it's a scary thing.

Whatever. I chose to live out here. If that comes with some problems those are my problems.

I kinda agree with ebbv that these people seem like hipsters. I have much more respect for people who make hard choices that lead to tough lives and they own it. And show how they got past those problems.

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Re:I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it by beatpanda on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:01PM (#10195613)
> I have much more respect for people who make hard choices that lead to tough lives and they own it. And show how they got past those problems.

Isn't that exactly what they're doing with their writing?

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Re:I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it by luckydude on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @10:03PM (#10195813)
Maybe. Maybe it's just me but it seems not so much. There are tons of how to videos out there. If you go look at some of them and then go look at this, does it seem like how to?
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Re:I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it by beatpanda on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @10:21PM (#10195864)
Seems like they've written several books more in the "how-to" vein, and it seems like that's not the kind of writing Vox asked for for this particular column.
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