Really interesting about Canada. Please continue to keep us updated as that could be such a helpful signpost for others arriving at this thread.
On a separate note I wanted to post a bit of an update. I've begun the process of redecorating my Scottish place. Funds are limited after outright cash purchasing the property as I do not want any debt or borrowing.
One of the reasons I opted to live in the Western Highlands of Scotland is that I want to continue turning my back on tech invasion, data mining, and authority intrusion. Before I left Facebook and all Meta services my tagline was:
"From that moment on I became a refugee from modern life" It's a quote from Peter Raine who lives wild with his wife Miriam Lancewood. They're both interesting people and Miriam has authored a number of books:
Woman in the Wild,
Wild at Heart and,
Alone in the World. They featured in two of Ben Fogle's wonderful Channel 5 programmes
New Lives in the Wild .
https://miriamlancewood.com/ 🔗https://www.channel5.com/show/ben-fogle-new-lives-in-the-wild/ 🔗Although I have to pay Council Tax I have decided to shun all other State intrusion. I have accordingly refused the 'invitation' to register to vote and shall continue to do so, even if they attempt to fine me. I don't, and would not, fill in a census return. I no longer own or drive a vehicle as, again, I have no interest in authorities trying to track me through a driver's licence. I have no television and no internet, so rely on a mobile signal for tethering. I change my phone number from time to time as I believe they try to track you through them. I also refuse to pay a tv licence in order to fund The State Broadcaster: about the only thing I've ever agreed with Elon Musk about. I have turned my back on the so-called News.
In the US I would probably be considered a radical as I am strongly anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist. I believe that the west and modernity are on a path of destruction.
There are some ambiguities: I do fly in aircraft when I need to. And I do use medical science, with the major operation still to come and another cosmetic one possible. And I haven't yet stripped back to a text-only phone.
In some ways this is back to my true roots. I lived off-grid in the African tropical rainforest for six years without electricity, running water, or connection to the outside world. It was wonderful and the happiest, most authentic, and most aligned time of my life, until tragedy struck.
I mention all this because it colours my other posts on this forum, which might otherwise cause confusion e.g. when I launched off about AI.
But going to a relatively 'Safe Space' as a newly born woman is also for me about travelling contra-flow to the world's current trajectory.
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