Hello Picard, Sorry that you have not "experienced" the bliss and freedom that comes with the "programming" that this way of living is an awful miserable lifestyle.. Let me tell you about a little old lady, who has lived back in the mountains without indoor plumbing, running water nor elect for over 40 years now, her name is Armenta, she lived about one and half miles from out last mountain-living adventure... She is over 70 year old now, still living alone, and can walk up to the top of a mountain faster than either my wife or I could keep up with, she sure taught us alot about sheep sorrell and some other wild herbs of the mountains, also how she keeps the bears ran off with the noise from her cook pan and a wooden spoon, and she always seemed to "know" that we were coming up her mountain for a visit as she'd already have places set at her table with a hot pot of tea "waiting" for us to arrive... Soft spoken, and as sweet as you'd expect any Angel from heaven to be like...
I'm sorry to hear that you have heard terrible stories about mountain living, but as with nature, you can harmonize with it, or become subject to it, attitude makes a bit difference... God bless