I saw an online survey where they wanted to find out what typical human goals are (a: if you had a permanent medium-sized income, b: if you got a one-time large sum of money, c: if you could get anything you wanted -- some set-up like that). I decided against submitting my goal after I read what other people had submitted. Everyone else had written a variant of "a house full of friends and family in the city center".
I have this "fixed idea" that everything will be better as soon as I move to a cabin in the mountains: It's quiet, nothing moves, out of earshot and out of sight of people, just forest, I can do what I want... This idea was my motivation to pass school and motivated me to find a job (i.e. earning money to buy the cabin).
It doesn't have to be 100% isolated. If it was, say, a 2-hour walk from a village where one can buy groceries, that would be OK. I just don't want burglars, neighbours, or hikers at my door. I'm not thinking of a fancy chalet here either, rather a single-room stuga. (The only luxury items I can think of would be solar power, PC, and internet.)
Of course maps and property web pages never contain the kind of information I'm looking for (what are the surroundings like?), and I become frustrated and post-pone it. Again.
Has anyone tried living in a remote place for a longer period? How does one find such a place? There seems to be this implicit assumption that solitude is a bad thing and nobody could ever want it...
