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Originally Posted by rickroll
microbet, you'd love china where there is no private ownership of land and you can therefore hike/camp anywhere you damn please out in the wilderness
as for the Swedish right to roam, it's not as cut and dry as you paint it to be, it has a lot of limits to it
I didn't really do a lot of painting, did I? But that's cool in China.
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so it's pretty much only valid for what is the equivalent of BLM land in the USA
From the wiki on freedom to roam
"Today these rights underpin opportunities for outdoor recreation in several of the Nordic countries, providing the opportunity to hike across or camp on another's land (e.g. in Sweden for one or two nights), boating on someone else's waters, and picking wildflowers, mushrooms and berries. However, with these rights come responsibilities; that is, an obligation neither to harm, disturb, litter, nor to damage wildlife or crops"
That's not the same as BLM land. It's the right to be on "private" property as long as you don't mess it up. There are restrictions about trampling crops or being within 100' or something of someone's house.
In Norway it's 150 meters
"People are allowed to camp at least 150 metres away from the nearest inhabited house or cottage."
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I do a lot of backcountry camping all over the world, I'm even planning on doing a bike ride from Seattle to DC this summer where I'll be mostly camping along the way
I'm trying to plan, with some other people, about a week long hiking trip at the end of next summer and the lotteries and permits for stuff like the John Muir Trail is pretty annoying and we're probably not going to be able to set dates early enough to do something like that.
I bicycled from Seattle to San Francisco years ago and camped all but one night.
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this is your main issue, you're a smart guy but you get so emotionally caught up in things that you seek confirmation bias and this leads you to post lol things like Swedish right to roam indicating they are freer than Americans and we in fact have the same exact laws
We don't have the same laws and BLM and National Forests and Parks are public land.
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in fact, we even have laws regarding private property does not extend to the water and thus you can't prevent people from fishing on your property in America
this is a thing that regularly comes up in Maine as wealthy retirees buy ocean front property and then throw a hissy fit that people are then allowed to walk, fish, clam, etc right in "their backyard" - I've had to explain the law to a number of elderly people who asked me not to fish on "their property" before
In California the coast is all public (though that doesn't always mean open and you sure can't just camp anywhere) and it's awesome. Aholes in places like Malibu try to keep people off the beach in front of their houses, but they aren't allowed to.