Considering Living In A Yurt?!

I have been having a long talk with my three friends who are doing a project on wanting to buy abit of land and we create our own tribe, we don't like to say community because it just dosen't sound peaceful to us. We live in Mid-Wales so plenty of land about to buy. My three friends have kindly offered me this oppotunity to come an live with them in this little family tribe and live in our own yurt's. And really live the simple life and on organic food. I am a hippie but this is all big change for me as I do live in a house, am looking for work, thinking I do need to live off money when really we all don't. It just seems a big change for me I feel I don't know if I want to live the simple life, not work and live in this tribe or carry on living with my parents learning how to drive, looking for work and spending money on luxeries and stuff. I suppose I am 21 an i'm going through that stage at the moment I don't know what i'm doing or how i'm gonna do it! x

 

Also I hate society an we have to work and waste our life to get by but I don't know what's best to do anymore. I suppose I do need some income some how!

 

yurts are awesome. My brother and i have been researching how to build them yourself instead of buying premade kits, its a lot cheaper

 

That hasen't really helped with my situation.

 

lol well i cant help your situation...you gotta go out there and find a way to make enough income to save to buy some land...just letting you know it can be done at a relatively low cost

 

some years ago, i read a book about a woman who built her own 'log cabin/soddy'. while she was doing this, she lived in a tipi on her land. can't find a link to it right now, but found this:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Living-in-a-Tepee

you're young. if you want to do it, do it. you'll be old before you know what happened.

 

I lived in a yurt for about a year and a half with a couple other guys. It was nice. I also knew a group nearby us who had created a whole yurt village. They had a living room yurt, a kitchen yurt, a hot tub yurt, bathroom yurt, they even had a yurt where they made other yurts. Some of them were three stories tall in trees.
They are really expensive to buy, and pretty simple to make. I'd say do some research and save yourself a lot of money. Also, you need a good woodstove. We put in a nice fat logburner so we wouldn't need to stoke it during the night (There were plenty of woods around us). Eventually we converted the woodstove to also burn waste oil. You should look into that. Try googling turk burner furnace or something similar and you should get something if you don't know what I mean.
Also, you'll want your outhouse nearby, which means make sure your water supply is far away.

 

Well my friends are gonna buy the land which I dunno if it's that easy to buy and their gonna do the yurts. But gonna be a very different life for me even though I do believe in living like that.

 

there's an architect who wrote a book about small homes...i can't find her book at the moment, but this turned up. depending on climate, you might do a search on 'dancing rabbit eco village', also. that'd be in the same vein. also, found this...i like buildings and architecture as something to roll around my mind..

http://tinyhouseblog.com/stick-built/victorian-tiny-texa-house/

 

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