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What It's Like to Live in Slab City

What It's Like to Live in Slab City

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For most people in America, access to running water, sewage treatment, and electricity are a given. But for those who can t afford a home, want to live outside modern society, or just need an escape from the snow every winter, Slab City might be an attractive place to call home. Located about 190 miles southeast of Los Angeles and built on an abandoned military base, Slab City has become a tourist destination and a residential community. Far from being one of the most beautiful cities in the world or even the United States, Slab City has its own unique appeal for those who live there and call themselves Slabbers. It takes a certain kind of person to be willing to endure 120-degree days in summer, live miles from the nearest grocery store, and get by without running water. People do it, however, and many of them are proud of their self-reliance and endurance. What s it like to live there?
Date: 2023-01-08

Comments and reviews: 14


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Ha, range Details hates when I visit, my spent casings are zinc washed steel. It is impossible to make any profit on them. can't be reloaded, and the scrap value is very rewarding for the effort required to find them after the bolt throws them 10ish foot and then they seem to be professional Houdinis and dissappear.
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The video depicts nearby Niland as an essentially functional town, but when I was there around 2011 or 2012, half the buildings were abandoned and/or falling apart, most of the roads were badly damaged with no stop signs at any intersection. Niland was just barely a few steps above Slab City
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I am surprised that no one seems to have taken the route many of the inhabitants of Coober Pedy, Australia, have taken, and moved underground. Is it geographically unsuitable for building home underground?
It would not suit me to live there. I'd prefer the life of a hermit to this.

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It s insane growing up 15 minutes from there, and seeing it get more and more attention. My grandfather has lived outside of Niland, only 5 minutes from the Slabs, for over 30 years. Please don t turn this place and this tiny community into a spectacle. These are peoples lives.
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I've been to slab city. It gets a hell of a lot hotter than 100 degrees. It gets up to 120 degrees.
The people there are okay, for the most part. I would recommend you don't go there with the intent of ripping anyone off. You'll need the care of the ER staff if you do.

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desertification can be reversed.
somebody out there really needs to raise rabbits, buying actual feed regularly in the big city.
canned rabbit (in a jar, just like veggies) is a delicacy.
. and the poop is the best easy-access fertilizer on the planet.

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This sounds like a perfect place to live for me, i literally have no friends and don't like people at all. I have my wife and that's it, if I saw a person get run over by a car I'd walk away after taking a picture so their family can see their last breath
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Looks like one of the most irritating places on Earth. Lots of highly irritating people and the artwork just peeves me to no ending all in all VERY DO NOT MOVE THERE and because it s HIGHLY EXTREMELY VERY IRRITATING!
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I wonder if there is a geologic reason they can t go subterranean like some other desert communities. It would be pretty tempting if I had solar panels and a vehicle up top with a nice cool subterranean abode below
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Its a spot for folks to die of overdose. i dont get why folks promote this sorta lifestyle and eating bugs or living in unfarmable spot as good way to live. i swear the elites are gonna go full fledge mache on us.
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When I was in the US Army I went to NTC National Training Center in the Mojave Desert three times and that was three times too many. Although I did go to a party in Joshua Tree National Park, that was fun.
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Living on the gulf coast, we are quite familiar with the concept of snowbirds. The word alone strikes fear into the hearts of locals. Specifically, retail and food service employees. shudders
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I used to live in a tiny town. It was not much bigger than Slab city, just a little cleaner. The answer is no, slab city would not be my cup of tea, but kudos to those who like Slab City.
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