Thank you for pointing that out...
People out here live in mobile homes and other cheap shelters on large acreage with livestock and save money to build a house in place without a bank loan, or lease after selling a home until they find acreage they want to buy-I’m one of those who lease, saving my money, looking for an uncleared property I can selectively groom for livestock and a large garden while keeping it natural.
Most of us here are going Galt and going natural-land and livestock can produce enough to provide for a family if it all goes to hell, and is worth more to a lot of us than a dwelling that you just shovel payments into which produces nothing you can eat-or sell in this bad market-it is all in what you consider important-I don’t criticize where or how someone lives, and I don’t like to hear people do that, either.
Good for you! If I were young I am sure I would choose some alternate lifestyle to my comfortable one started before 1950 and moving on to Florida in the 90’s. The pattern was there and we followed it. I would love a tiny cabin in the mountains...for a while!