would you live here (without graboids)

Just watched it and was wondering the same thing. If I had a dope pad on a bluff like Burt, with all the amenities like views, strong internet, AC, maybe a pool, etc. I could do easily do it. 38 miles isn't that far really. It's not like there's traffic. Just blaze down the road and you'll be there in a 1/2 hour.

Pros: If you need something quick Chang's is there and you can get a conversation and card game going with the locals. There WAS a local doctor in case you needed that. Shoot some hoops with Melvin, check out Nancy's art, get drunk with Val and Earl, ride horses or ATVs, do some hunting, chill at your pad and BBQ like a mofo... it has some appeal.

Cons: Most likely hot as hell in summer, if something breaks you're in trouble, plus spiders and scorpions and snakes and who knows what all over the place.

Absolutely not!

Okay, I may well retire to a desert area, I've got one picked out. But that's a place with civilized amenities and a good healthcare system, with lovely parks and forms of recreation I like, where you can buy decent food and clothing that you aren't embarrassed to be seen in, and I can develop a social life.

But if you live in an isolated hamlet in the middle of fucking nowhere, all it takes is one minor disagreement with a neighbor and life there can become sheer misery. And I'd be guaranteed to have disagreements with the kind of person who deliberately removes themselves from civiliation these days.

I would prefer a quiet little town in a forest by a good fishing river.

I've driven by places like Perfection numerous times across the United States. They're not as isolated or barren as here, but I definitely have no desire to live in any of these places. If I could afford a place like Burt, I think I'd go for a more interesting area for geographic isolation, probably in the woods by a river.