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    Have you ever lived in a remote or isolated place?

    There are many remote villages or small towns where we do not have facilities like big cities. Some of these places are located in isolated pockets and people have to plan ahead for any travel or shopping purposes. In some places there is no bus after 6 PM and one has to reach in time. In evening the area becomes deserted and except light in few houses there is nothing else to see.
    Have you ever lived in such a remote place for some duration? What is your experience? How did you pass your time? Were you on some job by some agency or just like that visited that place? Can you share your experiences?
  • #778702
    I had been to such places many times and I lived in such places for a good time.
    My grandfather after his retirement went back to his native place. It is a remote place. Only one local bus was there to commute. The last bus was at 6 PM. I used to go to that place very frequently. I used to stay there for 10 to 15 days at a stretch. There was a Ramalayam and Sivalayam in that village. I used to visit those two temples in the morning. Then I used to sit with my grandfather. He was a voracious reader. He used to read many books and he used to discuss with me about those books. He used to play Chess. I was spending some time with him playing chess. Then he was very good at playing cards. Sometimes I spent playing cards with him. The daily newspapers used to come in the afternoon. So sometime in the afternoon was going in reading that paper. So I never felt bored there those days. Nights we used to go to bed very early and used to get up very early in the morning. So there was no issue in spending time there.

    drrao
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  • #778710
    When I was doing my HSC, I had opportunity to go to a small settlement with my aunt as her parents lived there. I use the word settlement because it does not qualify to be called a village. This was a small place and only 4-5 houses were there and only market was a few shops on the main road through which some buses and cars passed in the day time. The nearest school was about 10 km and nearest town was about 24 km.
    So, practically it was like an island cut-off from outside. My aunt's parents were financially belonged to lower middle class and survived on a small pension. The children were married and parents were living alone.
    When we reached there they were very happy to see us and my aunt gave them some goodies that she brought for them. My aunt was a teacher in a primary school and was earning member. As my uncle was away having a job my aunt took me with her to her parents house for 12 days during holidays.
    I was treated as VIP but I could guess that those people were financially weak and I vowed myself not to trouble them with any demand.
    For me there was no company, nowhere to go, and nothing to do. My aunt could read that and one day she told me that she would give me some money and I could go to the nearby town in the morning and have some fun and return in the evening. One boy almost of my age living in nearby house was asked to give me company and guide me in that town.
    We went there and had a real fun time and enjoyed much and came back in the evening and I was so excited telling about the town market.
    We returned to our town after completion of 12 days and the strange memory of that small place still hangs in my mind.

    Knowledge is power.

  • #778711
    Yes, I lived in the small city Bhiwadi (Rajasthan) from 1998 to 2001. It's a town, and during the period when I used to live there, there were no buses, and we had to rely only on the sharing auto. Many times we had to wait a long time for them to commute. As I am from Delhi, I had the habit of going to the market at night, but the market used to close at 8 p.m. But with time, the city has developed a lot because it is an industrial area.
    Sanjeev

    " The two most important days in your life are the day when you are born and the day you find out why? "
    – Mark Twain

  • #778713
    I have never experienced any such situation but there was one place where I lived with my family because of my father's transferable job. It was Lansdowne Cantonment (Uttarakhand) where my father was posted and we lived at a place, which was surrounded by beautiful mountains. It was an Army colony built by the Britishers where we used to live and there was no city like settlement near us. We have to walk about 5 kms to reach the main bazaar where daily usage items were available. The colony wasn't connected with road and walking was the only way to reach our destination. It was a beautiful place but it was always advised to be safe because tigers and other wild animals were very common in those areas.
    Humble yourself or life will do it for you!

  • #778719
    Luckily I did not face the situation of living in a remote or isolated place.

    But I had my childhood in a village where there were not much facilities then. We did not have electricity or a fully enclosed toilet and bathroom in our home. The house was thatched and roof was made of paddy straw and bamboo poles and sticks. Roofing straw needed replacing every year. and was done in summer before rains started. Walls were not plastered, but muddy walls. There was just one or two bus passing through that village to the nearest town. So either we have to wait for a long time for the bus or we have to knw the timing and reach the stop around that time. But not all waited for bus as instead of wasting time waiting for the bus it was better to walk to the nearest town. Most people had bicycles. There were no banks, but a post office was there and some pensioners had their savings accounts in post office.
    Bullock carts were used for people to travel to nearest town market and taking goods. I also had travelled by bullock art then.

    It was common for us to walk 5 to 6 kilometers every day for some matter and did not feel tied as it was habit.

    Telephones were rare and just one or two homes had it. But emergency situations were very rare then, and the illnesses got cured by home remedies and local vaidyas, Otherwise they can wait to go to the town to met the doctor in the government hopsital of private clinic.

    But that was more than 50-60 years ago.

    Now I am living in a town. Even then there will not be any autorickshaw available nearby after 6 or 7 pm. For this we have to go for at least 1 km or if we know early arrange with some familiar autowallah. The roads will be isolated with no pedestrians, but only speeding two wheelers of returning people.

    On Sundays it is akin to Hartal. Most shops remain closed. For shopping we have to go to the main town side and there also shops will be open near bus stand or the commercial Malls .

  • #778723
    It seems many members have experienced such places and mostly it pertains to earlier times. Nowadays many small towns have converted in cities and we can see the increasing crowd in the markets there and the town seems to buzz with activities.
    Still there are small places where population is less and silence starts covering the town at the early part of evening. For those who are habitual of living in the hustle and bustle of city life, living in such small towns becomes a new experience.

    Thoughts exchanged is knowledge gained.

  • #779450
    Hello. I used to live on a farm 100 miles from Milan. It was a picturesque little village of a few houses. It had spectacular views. It was a very measured and peaceful life.


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