RM> I worked fairly hard and amassed a bit of a stake and then more or less
RM> disappeared into the woods, supposedly for a year or so originally, but
RM> 35 years later I'm still here..

RM> Surprisingly not as many people as you might expect think I'm nuts. Most
RM> wish they could have done something similar.. B)

MH>That would be me, too.  For instance if I bought a 2nd home in the woods some
  >re, I could see that becoming my main home very quickly.  Especially when I e
  >tually exit work, which can't come soon enough.

Usually the biggest 'obstacle' to that is women and/or children..   B)
(As the song goes, I guess every form of refuge has its price..)

MH>I never say never as you never know what life will bring.

Yes, I definitely had no idea where I was heading back then. I was fairly high
up in a small branch of a big company and competitors offered me a 50% raise
to go work for them but for a couple of reasons I decided to take 6 months off
instead. Turned out I could make enough money to live a simple life doing
investments, so I extended that 6 months a little further. That was in 1986.

I was always a hard worker, set a Canadian production record in one company,
which got me threatened by the union, and in the next company I set a world
production record (3 continents - no union), and I almost always was working
2 or 3 jobs at a time, ironically because I didn't want to work. I was never
working to get rich, I was working to save up enough to quit working..   B)

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