Also, much of the land isn't exactly ideal due to hazards.[0]

Furthermore, being 10+ miles from a serious hospital is a threat to life.

0. https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/map

Pretty much all of the US is a potential hazard zone. You have earthquake danger on the West coast, tornadoes on the Great Plains, floods and hurricanes on the East coast, and so on. You deal with that by buying insurance.

> Furthermore, being 10+ miles from a serious hospital is a threat to life.

Again, you can buy air ambulance insurance. It's pretty popular in Alaska, and is fairly cheap (around $100 a year for the family of 4).

I am planning to build an off-the grid house, and it's surprisingly doable.

I looked at a lot of these properties. The land is poorly graded, the drainage and soil quality is poor (Will fail a perc test), roads are terrible and wash out, and rural communities often lack basic services. I'm not talking entertainment, I mean your nearest grocery store is a Chevron Gas Station 30 miles away.

A lot more engineering and planning goes into making land livable than simply plopping a house on it and calling it a day.

This is just insane that people keep buying overpriced condos for $2 million apiece in cities, when they can have their own private park.

There is not a place on earth that has no risk of natural disasters.

(honest question)

The second point on this page is "Ready to rent in hours". So I think you're right.

Now in my mid-30's I have about $60k to my name. It'll whittle down to $50k in about 6 months ($2k/mo burn rate for rent + expenses). I have faith that I will land consulting clients or a full time job by then, and can continue saving up to $100k - $150k to buy with as much cash as possible (I hate debt).

I am looking into buying cheap property, simply to camp on it & store my stuff in a shipping container.

Looking forward to falling asleep to the sounds of bugs & nature, and waking up to birds visiting my tent and chirping at me. And at long last, I won't get kicked off private/public property.

Water to wash with can be the harder part. Though having a dryish cabin, there's some convenient USB chargeable pumps that fit on a 5gal jug and little submersible USB chargeable pumps that get you a poorly pressurized shower nowadays from a big pot (which can be warmed on a woodstove, or sous vide thingy).

This seems to be "optimized" for remote sites, where frankly you shouldn't leave anything worth $25k if you want it to be in one piece when you get back. 100% it will be occupied by animals or crackheads in a week.

They're called shelters, but the bottom half of the page is all pictures of people using them for camping.

You’d actually be amazed at what you can ram into less than a cubic meter. I’m working on a horse box conversion at the moment, and am using a cisternless toilet and a detachable worm tank to have a mobile toilet - drinking water and shower/basin water is trivial with cartridge filters, a pump, and RO. Shower is outdoor, heated, rainfall. Basin is for washing dishes and food, also outdoor. Total cost under €1,000 for a full sanitary suite. Grey water just goes on the ground, or into a tub for further use if desired, black water is stored for discharge - although the volume ends up very low due to the worm tank and waste separation.

Very solvable problems that they seem to have entirely ignored.

And yes I've had to do violent diarrhea in the middle of nowhere. TP is all you need.

When you have a lot of people in an area, you start running out of places to dig a hole and shit in it pretty quickly. You'll be surprised how often you'll start digging and find someone else's shit, which I can't imagine you'd be excited about.

I am all good with my situation, but I know many people who have it worse than me with not even a car to live in, so when I see opulence like this for the novelty of it I wonder where human compassion has gone.

And to make like these things are doing anything for the environment is just green washing. I have solar power that cost me $700 in total that powers everything I need. My sleeping bag is my heater and my reflective tarps are my AC. I am sure my carbon foot print in minuscule compare to anyone who could afford a Jupe.

As someone who spent 5 years in a similar situation to you, what I am about to say isn't malicious; it is reality from my experience and is the key to solving the issue for yourself.

They do not care about you and never will.

I am leaving this country that I served in a war for because they do not care and they never will. I am homeless and I have money; plenty to live like people do here. I don't because it is disgusting. I don't because I am not funding people's lifestyle where they buy nonsense like this while people rot and starve.

So I am going somewhere else where people haven't lost touch with reality like they have here. I would recommend any sane people do the same ASAP because no one here is going to change. It is the better option than being angry all the time and living in their dystopia.

What kind of place is that? I've been to many places around the world and around North America and they're all functionally similar, if zooming out.

I agree and I know. Thank you fro an honesty many more people need to hear.

We do not need to and cannot change what they've built. But what is built is rife with cracks and canyons, and they do not have the legs to carry themselves into those depths.

Thanks for your service. I served as well and made the jump to a new country as well. My mental health has improved greatly. I hope you find some sanity as well.

Critical Ignoring, engaged.

You know what's missing, though? Any sort of toilet facility. The pretty picture of emergency relief in an urban center doesn't show any hygiene facilities at all.