going to get my soul free

[haptalaon]

I know that land is only cheap in America as part of ongoing colonialisation,&that all these communes sucked for one reason or another (a big theme I'm getting from this book is the biggest barrier to dropping out is not The Man, but the actual men in your commune dumping all the important work on women)

but sigh, sigh, sigh, sigh, can you imagine waking up on 100 acres of seeming wilderness with all your buddies under the stars, or being part of a wider youth culture where people can do that.

The US is a tiny baby country so the situation around land there now is where England was in like, 1066AD, we are so far past the land grab stage and onto the land hoarding. & maybe US will never get there, it's just big enough that there's enough useless land to always be available for some dumb hippy to think they'll be able to farm there.

the dream is to wake up pretending the rest of the world no longer exists

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[haptalaon]

Do you think? It's a lot more restrictive here in terms of what you can choose to to with land, how much you can get as a parcel, how far away from other things it is, and there are definitely places in the US with an affordable price-per-acre which I'm not sure is true anywhere in the UK

In great part, I think, because it's so much smaller here that all land is at a premium

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[goatgodschild]

Reading back through this thread, I think I was mistaken in what you meant.

I look for places with some arable (or potentially growing) land, but under 8 acres is about where it should limit. The thing with land for sale in the USA is, I want to see if there's a structure on the property. If there's a structure, that usually says that a sewer line and water is possible, as well as electricity. Those massive land parcels are all fine and good if you're either part of a multi-departmental project with outside involvement (rewilding prairie, creating a housing development, etc.), or a Big Ag project.

There's a lot of things you can run the numbers on, and I can expand on this more in a standalone post.