[throwaway894345]

> People with comfortable enough lives sometimes have this attraction to the very romanticized versions of otherwise very hard lives. You see this with the coder who dreams of the farmer's life, or that of a "rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond", or even that of a soldier.

Some people even go camping for recreation.

[buran77]

Exactly, it's the dose that makes the poison. A week of camping is fun, a lifetime of camping is hell.

[macintux]

And living off the land was much easier (not that it was ever easy) when there was land to live off of.