I want to become a hippy hermit: how to do it?

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How to become a hippy hermit?

What I want is something like this:
My own place to live away from people, where I will never have to worry about being bothered:
- someplace with nice and sunny weather year around
- specific location on this planet doesn't matter, as long as it's isolated from people, but would be nice if it was an uninhabited tropical island
- 100% self-sustained, so starting with food garden and water, animals to hunt for food and similar
- a lot of pot plants

... so basically, like the move Into the Wild, only not as awful when it comes to accommodation plus hippy-style

By saving lots of money, ironically.

Yes, LOTS of money.

I think the hippies either; went to work, or got locked up for being homeless drunks and junkies.

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Survival is difficult. We need other people for most of it. Even if you buy some land with a water source, it is a great deal of work to keep yourself alive, all alone. I think that movie Into the Wild was trying to express the deadly reality-slap in the face people get when they try. I don't think there is any land left on Earth that isn't claimed by somebody. If you really want to try I'd start by learning survival skills while earning and growing money for the land, and for land taxes. You don't ever own land anyway, you must pay dues to the country it is in. Now, we have come to the old start your own country solution. Good luck with that. People have been after this forever.

Still, I think it can be done. If, you are willing to pay taxes for land you already paid for. I live in the mountains and I am trying (like others around me) to get "off the grid". We still need money.

I thought that buying land would be the end of all my problems. Nope. It is nice being away from people but there is way more work than I can handle. I eat beans and rice everyday of my life, my garden was wiped out by frost, the roof is leaking, I need to find and cut a ton of firewood every year, a grouse crashed through a window, bears come into the yard, the kids screaming, and my wife's bellicosity is on me so bad that I wanted to kill myself several times. You gotta be strong. You need money. You need skills. You can do it, just know that "it" is a very large task that will take many years to achieve.

First, decide where you want to live, then keep your eyes open for "tax sales" in that county, that is where the county government auctions off properties where the owners have abandoned the land and stopped paying property tax, so the govt sells the land in order to pay the tax bill. Once you pick an area, I would recommend researching it as much as possible, find the Craigslist board for that area and look under "rants and raves", are people talking about corruption and anger at newcomers? You will also want to travel there. I have been planning something like what the OP wants for the better part of a decade, and have revised my plans and changed target areas multiple times.

Move to New Zealand. There is more to it of course, but there are a lot of places to be a hippy in here; really nice places where its easy enough to live off the sea and the forest. It is relatively easy to live a partially hippy life with a job that brings a modest income in a small town/village environment, so you aren't entirely a hippie but close to it.