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To be honest if I were to become a hermit, I would go live in middle of a forest. Then one can be alone AND enjoy fresh air & nature with no people around. At this point lots of rural places have adequate internet connection for remote work & any entertainment needs.

Cities are kind of pointless if you don't enjoy participating in live activities with other people. Just worse housing at higher price.

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Cities provide all the services that a hermit needs in order to live a comfortable life. The forest does not.

Not with that attitude. We have survived for millenia with most humans never seeing a city.

Most humans have historically lived in some kind of community - be it a city, a town, or a village, the point is the same: a community can provide more services that a single person living in the forest can't.

I actually think we survived in communities/cities for longer. We lost our rough traits (ie: lots of hair, thick skin, etc...) compared to the rest of apes. So we must have been inside homes for a very long time.

That only really applies to cold climates at best.

Here's the theatrical trailer of Ten Canoes (2006) by Rolf de Heer with modern actors, many of whom are a generation or less from living traditionally without permanent homes, long houses or anything westerners would consider as "inside", retelling a story from their oral history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH_MY8FJuYo

Survive, yes. But survive in comfort? Perhaps not.

You can get delivery in some parts of the Balinese forest. Internet is Okay.

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