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A.M. Hickman
Personal blog · shagbark.substack.comcultureeconomics
A.M. Hickman writes Hickman's Hinterlands, a personal blog at shagbark.substack.com about culture and economics. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link A.M. Hickman's blog for posts on rural American towns and low-cost living. One commenter cites 'Obituaryland', a post about a dying neighbouring town, to question the move-to-a-remote-area advice in another post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A ledger of obscure travels, backwoods rambles, rough bivouacs, and cackling cartographies. Click to read Hickman's Hinterlands, by A.M. Hickman,
What Hacker News says?
this dude _literally_ wrote about a neighboring town that's dying and the government isn't helping them out. https://shagbark.substack.com/p/obituaryland Convincing people to move to a remote area while at the same time seeing literal ghost towns develop, is not something I would recommend. What happens when the public utilities fail? The roads need repairing? One of the _many_ blizzard-like seasons can knock out cr…
Comment linking /p/obituaryland
on “How to live on $432 a month in America”Submitted How to live on $432 a month in America as a story · 526 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Rural Public Transit Odyssey as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 'Do or Die' Days as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dying Art of Being a Bum as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dying Art of Being a Bum as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The False Idol of Sun Worship – Weatherman as Pagan Priest (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion