I think for most homeless, that would require a significant amount of travel to find woods they could safely squat and build a life in. What place doesn't have landowners, hunters, and pot growers?

Here in the west, there is no rain from about April to November. Extracting food and water from the environment would be a challenge, if one could even find land that remote. Then you'd have to worry about being burned to death in one of the common wildfires.

Ted had some great insights. But imo it's way too late to course correct. We're going to go fully into the boom, until our bust becomes the biggest news story of our solar system.

If that guy in the video is the one I'm thinking of, he has a good chunk of land in Oz where he does all his construction. In a lot or most places, that would mean property taxes that a forest dweller would be unable to pay.

The one place I know of where people are literally living mostly primitively in the woods is northern Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcaVClI50rGZmbYMhoSSDGA

Here's a channel that covers some of that. Before I was banned, I subbed to a couple similar channels, and one had a pretty amazing documentary on the details of their lives, their motivations, and their thoughts about it all. A big chunk of one of the families had moved everything to some place like Uruguay, or nearby, but then moved it all back to northern Russia to preserve their culture.