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.
You really could. You can't paint them all with the brush of the one you encountered. I spent a season on a cattle station in the Kimberley. Honestly, the country up there is beautiful throughout the dry season and while they used helicopters rather than planes, you'd also likely never be spotted on that station because of all the tree coverage (particularly along the rivers). The station manager would also probably be fine with you camped up somewhere out of the way - so long as you weren't messing up the place. That particular station sees so many visitors passing through that heli-muster teams wouldn't even think a van worth remarking on.
It's also very far from Bourke though. And only really accessible by 4WD. Plus it gets cut off every year from around Nov-Apr by the wet season/flooded rivers.
And so long as they don't think you're staying there permanently. Same as staying in the van anywhere in the city. Maybe one night is fine, the longer you stay the higher the chances someone will complain, no matter if it actually affects anyone other than being seen.
Nah, if I could still trust people I wouldn't be trying to run so far away.
And yeah, being too far from a town and needing a 4wd is a problem. I really regret not getting a 4wd van, but it's hard to find and expensive. Plus now I know that just because I can go to more difficult places it doesn't mean I won't be found.
Anyway, from other links here it seems that there might be hope to buy. Just maybe not in the outback and in much colder places, but I might have a choice.