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I don't know where to post this (or if I should, but I'm lost). Skip to the end for the "too long, didn't read" version.

So, this may sound kind of crazy, and maybe I am. I live in a van, and I managed to live 3 months in the outback, some 120km west of Bourke. No one lives there, I didn't even find signs of humans where I was staying. I thought I was safe.

But I didn't know they round up the sheep by plane, so eventually they saw the van from the plane and I was told I probably should go since this is so weird.

I was going every 3 weeks or a month to Bourke to buy food and get water. It was literally the only time in my life I felt really happy. I've always struggled with depression, but now I understand that my problem is other people. If I'm alone, I can have a (mentally) normal life like other humans. This has been 2 months ago. I still haven't recovered after experiencing happiness for the first time. Life has lost all meaning and I'm just living because I'm not dead. I have to do something or go back. But I can't do what I did again. I'll live in fear of being found out.

So I want to find a property for sale that's far from people, but close enough that I can travel for food (maybe up to 200km), for maybe a maximum of $150k, but hopefully less. It can be pretty small, as long as no one can kick me out and it's far away from people. I can't find anything like that, or even much more expensive. I called a real estate agent in Bourke and he said it's impossible, only people who know people, and only massive lands. Unfortunately I found I'm incompetent in self sufficiency (I can hunt but I didn't have the courage to kill and I couldn't find plants to eat there), so it needs to be close enough to a town. To be clear, people are what I'm afraid of. I need to feel safe, to know I won't see any human, and no human will see me.

So, tl,dr:

I need a piece of land, even if small, for hopefully less than $150k, a maximum of 200km from the nearest town, but with no one around the land. Better if it's in the outback. Is there some kind of professional I can talk about that? I am completely ignorant of these tings.

I may remove this post, since I don't know if I should be posting this. But thanks for any help. The story is a lot longer than that, but I guess it's enough info.

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[–] nevetsg@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You sent me into a realestate search wormhole.. I dropped the bedrooms to 1 and increased the land size to 1ha. If OP can find up to $250K there are a few plots in central QLD with burnt out houses. One of them has 48ha to get lost in...

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Where is that land? The only one I see is in Bourke, which I don't know why it's advertised since I called months ago and the agent said it's a "mistake". It's a massive one for 100k, right next to Bourke and it's been there since forever. There's some dodgy stuff going on there.

Edit: Oh, I saw you mention 250k. Yeah, that's a bit much for me.

[–] nevetsg@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] guismo@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

I never even searched that much south because of the cold. But maybe it's an option? That's a lot of land.

I have to check what I can do with the restrictions, since that's not very cheap and I would hope to be able to have animals. But yeah, thanks for the link. I'll explore more southern options and see if I can handle the cold.