Originally Posted By: martinfocazio
Originally Posted By: Eugene
The problem I'm seeing is we don't have much choice. Any good land where you could survive in bad times it too far away from jobs during the good times. I live near a city so I can afford to take care of my family and get the kids in halfway decent schools. If I were to move to our farm, there are no jobs and there are no decent schools. The farm land where I would bug out to was passed down so I didn't have to pay for it otherwise I wouldn't have any place to go.


You can do what I do. I wake up at 5:00 AM in Pennsylvania on a huge piece of land, with my own 300,000 gallon pond, with state game lands all around me, and I work in midtown manhattan at a high-end digital media agency. We "do web sites" like NASA does "Fireworks".

I can afford to send my kids to private schools 'cause my housing is so much cheaper, I have my own rifle range in the back yard, a backhoe and a big garden as well as a workshop that's pretty darn good. Sure, I commute 4 hours a day, but you know what? I end up out of the house from 5:30 AM to 6:30 PM - is that really any different than any other white-collar job? A little earlier in the beginning, about the same at the end.


Well said.

Here you are 1hr to 1hr 30min to get any work you want, and still live in the mountains or flats and have as much land as you can afford. Lots available, and prices are good.
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