Indeed. We meet new species every few weeks here. Forest living is not easy - but it is worth it to me!

Forgot to tag location and date. My apologies.

Quebec, Canada, a few days ago.

Furlow the squirrel-o is offended by your unfounded accusations.

More seriously though. Given abundance of food basically everything we ‘know’ about animal species interaction gets thrown out the window.

At any moment outside my window you find a dozen species eating side by side every single day that we were told would ‘for sure kill each other before sharing a food source’.

What that says about scarcity in relation to humanity I’ll leave to someone else…

This is probably a squirrel. They knock them to the ground and then come back for them later to eat them. Although they do sometimes try to hit people with them too :p

This is what the buffet looks like afterwards.

And the most likely culprit below that.

CHIPMUNK THREAD!

DUMP DUMP DUMP

We live in a tiny house in the forest and have been feeding ~50 chippies for 4 years. The newest generations have no fear of humans. Thankfully they don’t wander far and we are quite a few KM from town.

This one is apple. APple loves peanuts, and I love apple.

Bonus video:

Fair enough. Cheers.

I don’t think I understand your point here.

I was talking about my experience which is 80% in North America. Your points do not apply in North America as we have actually been getting worse for non-car travel in most cities since the 90s.

And that’s without even mentioning the atrocities that are considered inter-city or city-rural travel.

Not in Canada. Not in the US.

Over here we are actively gutting existing bicycle infrastructure to please the right wing morons

We actually did live in switzerland back in 2020 (I know, schengen is not EU) and were about to lease a home in France, but someone in my family fell ill and I had to come back to Canada.

The transit, grocery , pharmacy, and cultural access was amazing to us, even in times when locals were complaining of severely limited services.

Also Canada where the majority of my experience comes from. If I could see some my taxes going towards a Euro-style infra for moving people and things I would be a much happier person overall.

Ditto. But the rest of the travel we do need to do to interact with people, amenities, and services, is still worse than it should be due to poor inter-city and city-rural transit. At least here in Canada. My time in Europe showed me how bad we really have it. Even with the unavoidable foibles that happen in the best of cases/countries.

I was referring to the city planners as @EtherWhack@lemmy.world correctly surmised.

I also have worked from home* for almost two decades. But the non-work travel is still stained by the horrible planning in most urban sprawls.

* For various strange definitions of “home”. From a campground to an RV on a lake, and apartments in Switzerland to rotting farms in Alberta.

And since then - We have found ways to make all travel worse for comfort, more expensive, and more necessary.

If you have a hatred of hierarchy and a love of nature send me a DM. I’m interviewing people for an intentional community.

The first 5 people that pass the vibe check will get a one dollar, 99 year lease, on .5 acres to call your own. As long as you also partake in fixing/improving central infra.

Oh and one heavy caveat… You gotta be cool with winter. We are in Canada.

I bought some land and spent the last 3 years converting it into something usable for an intentional community.

Community I always thought the hardest part would be getting the land drilling a well sitting up solar etc. in fact, the hardest part is convincing people that you are serious about letting them come live on your land as long as they help work.

I’ve even taken to offering one dollar 99 year leases so that people could feel like they have some agency over the piece of land they choose to live on.

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