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Re:Ask HN: SWE who started an organic farm in Europe, where ... by ArtWomb on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:02AM (#31620428)
>>> Portugal. Land is cheap and plentiful

Really interesting! Can you provide ballpark as to prices. I know 3-4 families from NYC area that moved to Portugal recently. If you wish to buy a vineyard here, in a choice location, you'll be priced out at like $50k per acre. If you can even find a plot of tillable land available that covers 50+ acres. Alternately, Amazon is subletting 10M of warehouse space in NJ, so you could grow grapes indoors?

CERN / Swiss Alps / French Burgundy region also looks like it has potential for those seeking the "Château de Guédelon" medieval lifestyle ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9delon_Castle

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Re:Ask HN: SWE who started an organic farm in Europe, where ... by Iv on Sunday June 05, 2022 @09:25AM (#31630776)
French here in the process of buying a house in Isère.

The cheapest regions in France are probably in the center, in Seine et Loire I saw many offers for very cheap houses.

Be careful about buying medieval ruins: they can be cheap but they come with a VERY heavy regulatory framework. You have almost no freedom in how you will rebuild something that is classified as a historical monument and the cost of work and maintenance will be several times the buying cost there.

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