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The Hobbit hole man who left his 9-to-5 life behind to survive on $5,000 year underground house
Daily Mail ^ | 10-14-13 | Joshua Gardner

Posted on 10/14/2013 1:44:49 PM PDT by Dysart

Dan Price was once a successful but stressed out family man in Kentucky but left it all behind twenty years ago to live underground in the Oregon woods. He's the Hobbit hole man who walked away from the 9-to-5 life, dug himself a house under a horse pasture and he has never looked back. ‘When you get rid of things and you’re willing to have less, you’re given a gift of more,’ said Price as he sat in his 8-foot abode.

Price once worked as a photojournalist to help support his wife and two young kids and to pay the family mortgage. ‘I told myself, “buck up and pay the bills,”’ Price recalled to NBC News. ‘This is just the way normal life is.’

He lived in a string of rustic dwellings—a cabin, an old flophouse, even a tepee—before building the tree-covered Hobbit hole out of mostly found materials in Joseph, Oregon. Now, twenty years after seeing the light in simple living, Price is still in his 8-foot dwelling in the ground. In the carpeted, wood-lined circular room, Price has everything he needs. There appears to be electricity in his hobbit hole and a hot plate for cooking. Though it barely seems to fit, a cushion rolls out for sleeping.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: hobbit; hole; homemade; indigenousliving; livingindigenously
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1 posted on 10/14/2013 1:44:49 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart; Zionist Conspirator

Bah! Adventures are Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!


2 posted on 10/14/2013 1:49:19 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Dysart
Price once worked as a photojournalist to help support his wife and two young kids

Not a peep in the article about them ... wonder if he just walked away. If he did, he doesn't get my respect.

3 posted on 10/14/2013 1:52:01 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: Dysart

So where are the wife and kids? Abandoned? So he is a dirtbag?


4 posted on 10/14/2013 1:53:47 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Rebelbase; martin_fierro

5 posted on 10/14/2013 1:54:54 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim; Rebelbase; martin_fierro

What was that long string of characters y’all used to use, ended with NM for Ed (TJ). Not BAHOG, dangit, I can’t remember, that was years ago.


6 posted on 10/14/2013 1:57:16 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I'm not a gynecologist, but I'll take a look.)
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To: cuban leaf

This sounds similar to your path, although in opposite directions, right?


7 posted on 10/14/2013 1:57:23 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: Dysart

Like the Unabomber and his brother ...


8 posted on 10/14/2013 1:57:53 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The heart of the matter is God's love. It always has been. It always will be."~Abp. Chaput)
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To: Resolute Conservative

The article nor video broaches the subject of the kids/Mrs. I’d like to know myself.


9 posted on 10/14/2013 1:58:03 PM PDT by Dysart (Obamacare: "We are losing money on every subscriber-- but we will make it up in volume!")
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To: Dysart
"May the hair on his feet never fall out!"
10 posted on 10/14/2013 1:58:58 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

WTFIIWNM?

:)


11 posted on 10/14/2013 1:58:59 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Travis T. OJustice

WTFIIWNM, yeah, i think that’s it! Why was that so hard to remember.


12 posted on 10/14/2013 1:59:25 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I'm not a gynecologist, but I'll take a look.)
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To: Constitution Day

Been a while, yep, that’s it.

Hope you all have been misbehaving!


13 posted on 10/14/2013 2:00:08 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I'm not a gynecologist, but I'll take a look.)
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To: Dysart
Why leave Kentucky to go to Oregon?

Why leave a pony country for a non-pony country?

14 posted on 10/14/2013 2:02:01 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Yes, I would like to hear what his wife and two children he apparently abandoned so he could follow his dream of living in a hole have to say about his wonderful lifestyle. He sounds like a selfish b**stard to me.


15 posted on 10/14/2013 2:03:15 PM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: riri

Says his original home turf was in Oregon. Maybe he missed the Ducks.


16 posted on 10/14/2013 2:04:29 PM PDT by Dysart (Obamacare: "We are losing money on every subscriber-- but we will make it up in volume!")
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To: rusty schucklefurd

Perhaps his wife was happy be shed of him.


17 posted on 10/14/2013 2:05:22 PM PDT by Dysart (Obamacare: "We are losing money on every subscriber-- but we will make it up in volume!")
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To: Dysart

I should start read all the words in the articles not every fifth word. (:


18 posted on 10/14/2013 2:06:16 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Dysart

Somebody’s dopey kid. And nice guy - procreates then blows out. Good riddance, perhaps.


19 posted on 10/14/2013 2:06:17 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Dysart

I’m 90% there already and looking forward to 100%.


20 posted on 10/14/2013 2:06:30 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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