>>598272OP, Im gonna give you an actual informed answer.I spent less than a year living innawoods in central texas (outside of austin).
I say less than year because a year was my goal, but I only made it 8 months.
The biggest problem for me was the constant drain on my morale (mind, spirit, whatever). It takes so much out of you day to day, in a way you'll never really experience in normal life, and can't really prepare for.
The first month or two feel like vacation, and after that I just felt like I was drifting. Every day seemed harder than the last, and I'm honestly surprised I made it as long as I did. Around month 7 I had what my psychiatrist later told me was a mental break. I only lasted about a month after that.
Mind you, this wasn't even fully innawoods. I still went into town once or twice a month for supplies (rice, oil, .22lr, soap). Being around people was very surreal, it didn't feel real, like they were actors in a play I was watching. This feeling persisted for months after I came back and got a job and apartment.
Im not saying this is what will happen to you. I was never the most mentally sound person in the first place. I just want you to know the realities of actually doing this, because no one told me anything about the mental aspect of it before I bugged out.
Oh, it's been almost 2 years, and not a day goes by that I don't think about going back innawoods. I have never, ever felt so alive, before or since.
