dandandandan2

I live in a small town with no such nonsense

Undoubtedly having a phone would increase convenience in my life. I’d also have to go to work more to pay for it which would seriously inconvenience my snowboarding time.

I’d also spend more of my life staring at a small device instead of talking to people or just enjoying the trees, mountains and rivers.

On the whole, I much prefer it this way.

I live in a small town. There is no uber or Lyft, or QR code parking. I ride my bike a lot. Snowboard nearly everyday in the winter and there is cell service in the mountains.

I lived in mega cities for 10 years, I’ll never do it again.

Call in hermit life if you want, I call it the simple life where enjoyment and happiness are the priority

> Nowadays, you can no longer exist in society without a phone

Hyperbole doesn’t help. I’m a 44 year old former software engineer now with a modest social media following (100k per platform). I don’t have a phone.

I’ve never had a smart phone, last dumb phone gone in 2015.

I have to hassle my bank to let me use email instead of SMS for 2FA, and I hand jot notes for driving directions sometimes.

Otherwise, I’m immensely happy not to have one.

I flew from Canada to Australia during deep Covid ($15k flight, mandatory locked in hotel for 10 days for $3k, etc)

I don’t have a phone.

> Nowadays, you can no longer exist in society without a phone

Hyperbole much.

I’m a 44 year old software engin, I don’t have a phone. Have never had a smart phone, haven’t had a dumb phone since 2015.

Some things are annoying, for example, I have to keep pushing my bank to let me use email not SMS. Going somewhere new I’ll look online on my laptop and jot down a few directions on paper.

That’s about it.

I snowboard and hike and hunt and camp and fish, no coverage doing all those anyway, so much of my life when not in a house with a laptop I simply don’t need or want one.