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What I mean is you don't even realize how enslaved you have become, I didn't either until I moved to a place with no organized local govt (unorganized borough). We don't have any taxes, even property taxes. No LEO's whatsoever, no regulations, permits, comp planning,ect and it works out just fine. Everybody likes no real intrusive govt that keeps growing and fight when fed agencies try to give freebees to the community. Example: This year one of the few town Dems tried to bring in this fema program that would provide low cost flood insurance. Community got to together and thanked her for her leg work but said if people needed insurance, they had to buy it themselves, not expect the govt to subsidize a program; end of story.

Everything is tied up in urban areas, you can't stop it either.

People in urban areas can't cut their costs like people can in rural areas. Whether going to wally world twice a week or big macs or pizza, the money goes. I'm 500 miles from nearest sams. Living costs are way higher in urban areas and you can't get around that reality. I have friends working 2 jobs, wives work and they spend just so much to stay in the game. Their heads spin at how hard it is getting to just survive. I don't feel it nearly as bad, because I am able to cut costs where they can't. They have to pay expenses that are part of urban life. Taxes, high utilities, high rent or mortgages, but the big one is all that is spent just living the urban lifestyle. Wife and I have our teaching degrees, my monthly costs are $200/ month phone & elec and $200/month dir tv and thats about it. We have way more disposable income than we have ever had in any urban area and we just luv going back in time to the 1940's lifestyle.

No offense, but when the inflation hits, cost of living will affect urbanites much more than how it will affect people living in rural areas; and no way around it. That's what I'm getting at.

Here's one for ya: When I did live urban, I could buy milk cows from local farmer for around 400 bucks. I'd debone and can meat. Would get close to 175 quarts out of a milk cow and it was quite good. Pressure cook meat. I'm so far out now, no farmers. We can salmon, but usually just freeze caribou and moose. I'd check with local small family farmers that are milking 50-60 cows, they always have 5-6 year old cows for sale.