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Making life harder then it needs to be.

posted 9 years ago by jonathanmarklund
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I live just bellow the arctic circle. In a small village with about 1000 people.
In a modern brick house, with indoor pluming, electricity and multiple sources of heating.

Temperature reaches minus 40 sometimes and it snows 4-6 feet. But life is not hard.
If it's cold, you put on more clothes.
If it's cold inside, I start a fire.
I have food, water and everything I need for at least 6 months and the needs to get more if I need it.

Life is not hard. These guys are idiots that seems to lack any common sense and planing.

Why do they only fell one tree at the time?
I go out in the autumn and get about 60 cubic feet of wood. That last me a winter. And of course I have a couple of trees laying around in the woodshed in case I need more.

Why do they hunt from day to day?
I grow my own food, pickle it and have canned food until the next season.
It's the arctic, it's cold. Just get a bunch of plastic boxes, fill them with meat and hey will keep fresh for the entire season.
Bake some bread, put it in the same boxes, it freezes instantly and lasts for several months.
Pie, pizza, pasties and similar food is easy to make in large quantities and freeze.

Get indoor pluming.
All you need is a well, a pump and some piping. It's easy, you can do it yourself and it helps with cleaning, cooking and personal hygiene.

Stop complaining.
You choose to live there, you choose to live that way, enjoy it. Stop being so *beep* negative.

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Sorry for the horrible english. I'm Swedish.

[–] nomadprog 9 years ago

My guess as to why that Sue lady lives alone on a remote landscape is that no one in society could bare to be around her for more than 5 minutes.

[–] trendkilla 9 years ago

Yeah Its kinda everyday life for alot of people and have been so for ages.
I prefer cold to heat. Not only am I not physically built for it, but its always easier to put on more clothes then living with frying in your own skin.

[–] StevenSmithNYC 9 years ago

You raise some very good points. There are people who just live without planning and then spend time complaining about things. They don't save money, live paycheck to paycheck, yet have money for entertainment and drinking. Their bills are late and before their service or insurance is cut-off they run around scrambling to get it taken care of. They don't learn from the experience and continue to repeat the process each time. They continue to introduce unnecessary drama in their lives and never move forward.

[–] BridgitteVonHammersmark 9 years ago

Well no. When you're reading the OP's post, you have to realize that he's from Sweden. Waaaay different than North America. The biggest thing that you have to realize is that Sweden has been populated since before the Middle Ages, whereas North America has only been populated by Europeans (people that would be inclined to live in brick houses) for 600 odd years.
Sweden (even the part above the arctic circle) is well inhabited, with typical city/country amenities, so it's as easy as living in say upstate New York. Since North America is 'the new world', society hasn't become populated enough yet, the more uncomfortable, colder parts have yet to be inhabited fully. In a couple hundred years, when the population has doubled or tripled,most of Alaska and all of upper North America will have large cities. What your seeing on this show are the few people that are eaking out an existence in a new, untouched frontier. A couple hundred years ago, when the first Europeans showed up to lower Canada and the U.S., life would have been just as hard as what you see on Life Below Zero. So I would say, take the OP's comment with a grain of salt because he's European - a WAY older and more established civilization.

[–] stacy0912 9 years ago

Great post Bridget!

~Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable~

[–] BridgitteVonHammersmark 9 years ago

Why thank you Stacy! I just don't think you can compare an ancient place like Europe to the 'New world' North America.
Cheers! :-)

[–] jasonpatrickphipps 8 years ago

Very true and very well put.

[–] kmd11 8 years ago

Uh, where in his post does it say he's from Sweden? It says he lives in Alaska .

[–] tjejen 8 years ago

Clearly you haven't been to Northern Sweden. Yes it has cities but so does Alaska. It can be pretty remote, and a community of 1000 souls won't be living across the street from each other but huge distances from each other. Sweden is bigger than it looks on a map.
Life there is hard for sure, people are isolated and need to be very self-relient but the OP is right, most people on the show are making it way more difficult than needs be. If they learned a bit more from how populations who have been settled in the North they wouldn't have as much hassle. No wonder the Hailstones seem to be the ones to thrive the best on this show.

[–] BridgitteVonHammersmark 9 years ago

Well no. When you're reading the OP's post, you have to realize that he's from Sweden. Waaaay different than North America. The biggest thing that you have to realize is that Sweden has been populated since before the Middle Ages, whereas North America has only been populated by Europeans (people that would be inclined to live in brick houses) for 600 odd years.
Sweden (even the part above the arctic circle) is well inhabited, with typical city/country amenities, so it's as easy as living in say upstate New York. Since North America is 'the new world', society hasn't become populated enough yet, the more uncomfortable, colder parts have yet to be inhabited fully. In a couple hundred years, when the population has doubled or tripled,most of Alaska and all of upper North America will have large cities. What your seeing on this show are the few people that are eaking out an existence in a new, untouched frontier. A couple hundred years ago, when the first Europeans showed up to lower Canada and the U.S., life would have been just as hard as what you see on Life Below Zero. So I would say, take the OP's comment with a grain of salt because he's European - a WAY older and more established civilization.

[–] UncleRob 8 years ago

OP -- Without hardships, challenges, calamities, stress, complaining, and yes, stupidity, there would be no show.

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