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Post-industrial Buddhism is what it is. Yeah like it'd be great to do that in a cave or forest or open prairie but who the fuck can afford those things?
Abandoned buildings are free as long as you don't fuck with the native inhabitants' meth.
I would just worry of asbestos or heavy metal contamination in the buildings, especially if I'm sleeping on or near the floor
Are you worried about this sort of thing in general? I would argue that these things are pretty esoteric concerns.
All the good caves are taken.
Anybody? Where do you live that hanging out in the forest costs money?
Transportation to and from the forest isn't free.
Also some places have laws against camping on public land to discourage homelessness and these would likely fall afoul of those.
I promose you those places also have laws against camping on private property in an abandoned building.
Yes, but not as many people go to abandoned buildings so you're less likely to be seen by others and reported.
I'd be way more concerned about running into someone in a 'bando than out in the woods though.
Hiker in the woods is going to go the other way. A homebum in a bando? Who knows how they'll react.
In the middle of a city, which doesn't have nearby forests.
If we're talking about the US, that's no city I've ever seen except maybe the southwest
You've never seen an abandoned building in Baltimore, DC Philadelphia, Detroit, or Chicago?
Outside of the tourist zone you can find wastelands of abandoned buildings.
I'm not doubting there are abandoned buildings in cities. I'm doubting any city within the US with the exception of the southwest is more than a few miles from a forest.
Oh ok. But to refute your forest idea, while there are forests a few miles outside those cities, you can't easily walk to them. There also aren't any forests near those major cities where you wouldn't immediately be noticed by park rangers if you tried setting up a random tent. Abandoned buildings don't get daily police sweeps whereas parks do get sweeps because of lost/injured at nightfall when the parks close to everyone without a camping permit. And legal camp sites are very popular so you wouldn't be getting away from people- like those who have their playlists blasting out their phone while hiking.
OP didn't mean the cost of going there, they meant still paying the bills while going to the forest instead of work
That's still going to be a problem living in an abandoned building though. That part doesn't change regardless of where their friend goes to meditate (unless that place is work I guess)
murrca.
there are no commons.
Actually the larger parks near me (the only places that have enough trees to qualify as something close to a forest) do cost money (american city metro area)
Easter Island
What forest? Most people live nowhere near a forest
Most American cities have a forest within a few miles. Our largest city, for example, has 50 acres of forest right in the Bronx.
Most people don't live in America either
Most people on 4chan do