What is the most BFE hick place you've ever lived?

[Louie Detroit]

Totally off the grid. :yesnod:

[ft laud mike]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/NqCrRR9mMhooTAhw8

use to live in this trailer park in the early 90's
seems like the area has grown a bit

[Frankie the Fink]

Far southern Maryland in the early 90s....the residents could almost all trace their names to the manifest of the original 3 ships that landed, Hewitts, Mattingly, Raley, Lore, etc..

Many still spoke the old Elizabethan English with strange accents on the vowels. A bunch had NEVER ever left the county and were called 'countians'...

As you reached the tip of the peninsula near Point Lookout the old Civil War prisoner camp, it got even weirder. Strange celebrations like "Bucksnorts" and the "Blessing of the Fleet" ... Wife and I somehow got adopted into the clique but few outsiders did, it was quite the closed society and had a large Amish population too

All changed there now when the Navy moved the Naval Air Systems Command into town.

[jw38]

Poplar Bluff, Missouri, where my ex-wife is from. Beverly Hillbillies on steroids. Thank goodness it was just for a few months.

[Bruze]

Totally off the grid. :yesnod:

Never "off the grid," but close to it. My 2nd wife and I were going to do it, but we split in 1978 and it never happened.

When I bought this cabin in July 1981 it had no water, and only a kitchen sink and toilet inside. I think they'd originally pumped creek water to them, but that plumbing/pump was long destroyed and not the kind of water you want.

I hooked up to an old dug well, laid a line to the cabin, ran plumbing to the new shower stall and vanity I installed, and to the kitchen sink. Also installed a 120V 20 gallon water heater.

It had a 60 amp electrical service but no phone line. No heat, no ceiling. It was just a weekend summer get-away for the previous owner.

I didn't get a phone for two years. It was nice in one way because nobody ever bothered me. I'd have to drive 5 miles to the nearest pay phone to call my parents or my slut occasional girlfriend.

I got a real GF in 1984 so I had a phone line installed and here we are, we finally got a cell signal 2-3 years ago. Had a live-in GF in 1989 with kids so had a large living room and two bedrooms added.

That was close enough to being "off the grid" that I'd want to be, although that definition today means you probably have solar/wind power (not possible here for either) and more or less full electric service from those.

To me, "off the grid" means how my mom grew up: No electric, wood heat, no indoor plumbing, draft horses instead of a tractor, growing and raising all food. She never wanted to go back to that and I wouldn't want to live like that either.

For what you get, utility electric is dirt cheap (I'm paying around 12¢/KWH). If you think otherwise, shut your main breaker off for a month and see if whatever you were paying is worth it.

We had a bad ice storm in 1991 and the power was out for 1-2 weeks. There was not much time to do anything other than try to survive (I could not run the machinery in my shop, obviously, so couldn't work) so surviving took up most of the day.

I was collecting rain and snow melt water off the roof for dishes, buckets of creek water to flush the terlet, and I got drinking water from the town shed that has a spigot there for anyone to use. Was glad when the power came back on.


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[slewfoot]

Alabama

Fortunately, not for very long each time I was there.

[The_Dude]

I lived out in the Oregon woods for months at a time when I used to do woods work

[DJ_Critterus]

Army post....name one. Name any Army post and I can claim it was a hell on earth BFE place :yesnod:

[slewfoot]

Army post....name one. Name any Army post and I can claim it was a hell on earth BFE place :yesnod:

Ft Greely, Alaska in January.

I loved Alaska, summer and winter but mainly station out of Anchorage at Ft Richardson. Had to fly to Ft Greely for 3 weeks. Absolutely nothing to do

[Anjdog2003]

Army post....name one. Name any Army post and I can claim it was a hell on earth BFE place :yesnod:



Ft. Gordon "In the heat of the night" was a reality in 1970

[DJ_Critterus]

Ft Greely, Alaska in January.

I loved Alaska, summer and winter but mainly station out of Anchorage at Ft Richardson. Had to fly to Ft Greely for 3 weeks. Absolutely nothing to do

Try Greely Hall on Ft. Gordon. Talk about a shit hole :yesnod:

[Aerovette]

Never off the grid but as a kid we lived in a farm house with space heaters in each large room. Hand pumped well, or cistern water. Another option was filling old milk cans with spring water from the spring house under the barn and carrying them to the house. "Rustic" was an applicable description. Bentleyville Pennsylvania.

[Mick]

WTF is "BFE"?

[MY03C5Z]

WTF is "BFE"?



Bum **** Egypt I believe.

[MY03C5Z]

I guess I’d go with Altoona PA. Pretty small hick PA town in Central PA. Was at their PSU campus my first two years of college.

[Unsuspicious]

Never lived anywhere with a population under 50k, always had neighbors, but I'm working and saving in order to one day not have neighbors.

[DJ_Critterus]

I guess I’d go with Altoona PA. Pretty small hick PA town in Central PA. Was at their PSU campus my first two years of college.

They think they caught the Healthcare CEO's assassin there in Altoona :yesnod:

[MY03C5Z]

They think they caught the Healthcare CEO's assassin there in Altoona :yesnod:

Yeah I just heard that on the news and had to laugh. Pretty weird. The guy had a gun ‘like’ the one in the pictures. That is one very unique gun. Sounds like it’s him.

[zeek]

While not off the grid, I lived in Wellborn Fl. on 20 acres in a double wide mobile home on a long dirt road. I loved it there until some rowdy neighbors move on to the property next door.:spdchk:

[Torqaholic]

First place after I got married was a trailer on a gravel road North of Wheeler. Moved in next door to my sister and her husband. That's on M46 East of Breckenridge on the map (NE of Alma). Had electricity, running water, sewer, and mail delivery. Forget about television, VCRs didn't exist yet. Was 70 miles from work. Is that BFE enough for you? :rofl:

[Aerovette]

Yeah I just heard that on the news and had to laugh. Pretty weird. The guy had a gun ‘like’ the one in the pictures. That is one very unique gun. Sounds like it’s him.

Why on earth would he keep the gun on him? Wipe it down, throw it in a boxcar or river or lake.

[MY03C5Z]

Why on earth would he keep the gun on him? Wipe it down, throw it in a boxcar or river or lake.



I know right? Especially since they now have a full face picture of him. He had to know they were going to track him down from that, let alone other evidence they had on him. ****ing idiot….

[lrobe22]

Army post....name one. Name any Army post and I can claim it was a hell on earth BFE place :yesnod:

Rucker

[Yadkin]

Upstate New York. Work projects brought me to the Canadian border. Far more redneck than anywhere in North Carolina.

[Swany00]

Camp Pendleton, School of Infantry

[dvarapala]

Urbana IL. :D

[Chemtrails99]

Why on earth would he keep the gun on him? Wipe it down, throw it in a boxcar or river or lake.

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[mtnman]

Millet, AB :leaving:

[Force-1]

Balikesir Air Base, Turkey. Small USAF detachment on a Turkish AFB. Our Det sat up on a hill. About 90 of us, all on a one year remote tour.

[higgyburners]

I lived out in the Oregon woods for months at a time when I used to do woods work

This use to be a big thing here. It is how Oregon made money, not unlike other states, until the federal government and environmentalist got involved. The effects of it will never be quantified. I experienced it in the mills...so many people were injured if not killed by the spikes or nails that environmentalist put into the trees. Give the land back to the states and stay out of the states business....sorry i got a little of topic.

[The_Dude]

This use to be a big thing here. It is how Oregon made money, not unlike other states, until the federal government and environmentalist got involved. The effects of it will never be quantified. I experienced it in the mills...so many people were injured if not killed by the spikes or nails that environmentalist put into the trees. Give the land back to the states and stay out of the states business....sorry i got a little of topic.

Yes, there used to be small mills everywhere. Now we have very few mills all owned by big corporations and they're closing all the time. My current job still depends on the lumber industry.