 All right, so I'm gonna address some common user comments and questions in this video specifically about moving into a rural environment Is it cost-effective? How much does it cost? How much land should I get? Yada yada yada I'll go ahead and say go ahead and do it Okay, go ahead and get ready because a lot of these concerns I mean there are only concerns because you don't know what's going on You don't know exactly how it's gonna be they will there are concerns that will quickly dissolve once you go out and do it Okay, but anyway, this is something I've done moving into the countries in the in the country in the past couple years So I will give you my experience anyway. I'm gonna read a comment. This is from Timothy Can you do a video on how much land you need for certain things gardens farm animals shooting range, etc? My brother and I suburban families are starting to look at land But don't know diddly squat about it currently looking for a square mile for our families and some Extended families to get and live on but we know we don't need that much Yeah, a square mile. That is a square mile is like a small town. That is a huge plot of land That's like that's like 640 acres. That's an insanely huge amount of land You do not need that much unless you are you have money and you're looking to make a intergenerational Inheritance for your family, which is a totally valid thing to do especially if you have a lot of money Or if you're working with other people that might be something you might want to do But that is more land that you will need for a normal family So how much do you need if you're just a family looking to move into a rural environment? Well, how much I have is five acres, okay, and that is not just plenty enough for me That would be plenty enough for me I mean that's enough to support a small family or maybe even a big family You know, you guys might know vark vickerness. He and his wife live in rural France. They have like eight kids they live on like three and a half acres they grow all of their own vegetables and and You know tubers and you know potatoes and stuff like that, right? So you don't really need that much acreage to support a family just a couple acres Even if you want to have like, you know, my five acres would be enough to keep a couple cows probably Or you know chickens or chickens you can keep in your backyard. You don't you don't even need an acre for that You might need, you know a quarter of an acre, right? So the land requirements for moving out there moving out in the middle of nowhere They're actually pretty low although you land is so cheap, right? Usually the thing that's most expensive on most of these places is like the house, you know paying for a extra acreage usually isn't that much and I definitely recommend you get I mean when I was looking I was looking basically minimum of five acres, okay? And I got one that was exactly five acres that has you know, you guys might know my house I got grape vines. I got loquat trees. I got pear trees got fig trees. I got a lot of stuff Okay, I got lucky But you know most the most of the places you're gonna find they're just you know normal five acres might have a clearing Might have a house on it, right? But that is definitely enough for a single family But now my recommendation I'm gonna go ahead. Well actually I'll go ahead and read The next email because I think it's sort of related to this. This is from Michael I enjoy watching a rants, especially the ones where your property is visible since I'm interested in the self-sufficiency meme I've decided to work towards getting my own plot of land. I've come to wonder how much land do you own? It seems huge. What are some of the pitfalls you've experienced? Is it just like Minecraft kind of regards from the Netherlands Michael? So the land you usually see me walking around at like the land amount now this is not actually part of my property and Really I have my five acres and then around that five acres I have a lot of neighbors and family members that you know I basically just go on walks there, you know, and they have you know hundreds of acres combined like it's a huge I guess it goes all the way out here To where I am now. So Yeah, and some of that land Yeah, I mean it's basically not used by anyone a lot of what you do out here with a lot of Unused land you might notice that there are a bunch of pine trees in my video that are like symmetrically planted all in a row That's because there are a bunch of pine farms out here If you have like a couple hundred acres of land You can actually rent it out to a company and they will come on not really rent it out But you'll get you can sell the rights for a company to come grow pine They will grow, you know pine trees they will harvest everything how it harvests the straw They sell it harvest the wood they sell it and you basically get paid It's basically passive income a lot of people around here do that basically everyone who has land but I will say, you know, my recommendation is Well, if you're just moving to the country I would not be looking for plots of land that are like a hundred acres or something like that start small and the reason I say start small is You until you are out there until you are actually in the place that you're gonna be You're not gonna know the specifics You're not gonna know every little detail that you need to know to get the perfect piece of land so my recommendation is get a small plot and Live there for a little bit pay that off and plan to eventually sell that that's sort of what I think about at the place I live now I might actually keep on to that for for different reasons, but um, you know that I recommend You know, especially if you're trying to live debt-free or you don't have that much money Listen, it is not difficult If you want to live debt-free in the country like what you can do you can just buy a couple You can get a couple acres for you know $10-20,000 something like that maybe less and you can set up as a kind of a well Nowadays people like to call them tiny homes, but you know like a mobile home kind of thing, you know there's this like classist kind of Dismissal of like mobile homes or something like that But the fact of the matter is you can get them pretty cheap or you can get a tiny home If you want to call it that and you can set that I mean like for $50,000 You could be set set for life quote-unquote and I don't mean that and that you're gonna be there for the rest of your life But you know, you're not in any debt. You're not worrying about anything. Everything's paid off You just got to pay your bills, you know Maybe a couple hundred bucks a month and then groceries and you know, you you don't have to worry about anything So that sort of brings up the other question that a lot of people ask about like What about getting jobs and stuff like that? Actually, I have another email on that. Let me go ahead and When I will say this this guy Michael actually talked. I guess he mentioned is it hard to Are there any pitfalls to it or I guess is it hard to maintain a land? And I will say that depends on your land if you buy a bunch of open space You might feel obliged especially if you know, there's a road nearby you might feel obliged to like mow it all the time But you know, if you if you get you know forest or something like that you can basically let it be in Anyway last email. This is mostly about jobs. I'm it's a longer email. I'm not gonna read the whole thing I was wondering if you this is from Samuel. I was wondering if you might ever make a video about supporting yourself from cities I'm guessing you don't want to share your workplace for privacy reasons But I'm sure you're no longer working in an academic cesspool Does the supremely low cost of living make up for the fact that you likely have to work at a Demand dead-end job. What if the only good company in town goes out of business? Okay, well, actually I'll keep reading this Obviously neat is better than wagey, but I don't know how people actually become needs parental cash infusions I do have an entrepreneurial side, but I could also care But I also have lots of anxiety so never really made anything out of it I think I could start my own essay a s or other web-based silliness, but it feels incredibly unsure Okay, so yeah, a lot of people will be like, oh, no, well if I move to the country, you know Maybe it'll cost less, but I won't have my my wage-cut job or something like that for me that's never been an issue because like like if I'm giving given like financial security or if I'm if I'm given freedom Versus money, I'm gonna choose freedom if I was making like a million dollars a year in a city I don't know how happy I would actually be with that So I moved out here and what you know, one of the reasons that I guess I originally I Could build up the confidence to move out here as well. Okay At least I could maybe make some money from YouTube or something if I couldn't find a job Now was it happened what happens when I moved down here? I got a job immediately And I worked there for a year got tired of it And now I I don't know I just make money online made a bunch of money on chain link Like it's not I don't know it's just not an issue I guess like when you're in your lower 20s, I guess There's this mentality that people have especially, you know guys are like, oh, I got to work in the system to do well Where now I don't know I'm like I'm not really worried about having money or not having money I have enough to live like once you run that again once even if you're like that person who's paid $50,000 and got a trailer park on an acre of land Like you're not indebted to the system like you don't have to do anything You just have to buy food for yourself. Like, you know, you could work a week You know, you could work a wage-cut job like a week a month and that would be basically it So it totally totally changes your perspective on things And you know that kind of question like the thing you also have to remember is people have been moving into the country's for Country for a while and now that we live in this era of the internet It is it has become easier and easier to make money online I think a lot of you guys who watch my channel who know Software and stuff like that and you know, I don't know how to use Linux and be able to do systems administration like there's so many Like we live in a perfect environment for you to move into the country because not just you can work remotely But you know after this corona stuff there are a lot of jobs that are just remote like that's just how it is So you have less and less of an excuse. I mean again the only thing Like it's just the once you take before you take the plunge like of course, it's gonna look scary But after you do it, you're like, okay, well, this is fine So I would put yourself in the position of you know May you know, I was in the position of okay I don't need a job when I move out into the country It would be nice if I had one, but I don't really need it And I think you should try and make yourself in put yourself in that position Because I know that's hard. I'm basically just saying oh well just deal with it But in reality, it's really it's really a psychological barrier I guarantee people in the country guess what they make money and in fact if you have education Formal education or something like that a lot, you know If I were to work at one of the community colleges around here No one has a phd at these places like you basically need a bachelor's degree to teach at them or something like that So it's the I don't want to say the standards are lower. There's just like less hoops you have to jump through And you know may if you make something like $20,000 out here a year that is more than most people That's more than you need. I mean that's arguably more than like a full family needs You could definitely make it happen And when you live in the country, it's not just that things cost less It's that it changes your spending habits I talked about this in a couple videos ago that I started to buy local But I mean even the things that you buy Like are always like when you live in a part in an apartment in a city, you know You're not going to get a bunch of power tools so you can make your own stuff You don't have enough room for them. Okay, if you move to another apartment, you got to move all that junk You don't have space. Okay, but if you have a couple acres even like one acre No, excuse me In the country you have a lot of room You can do a lot of things with it and the things that you buy are going to be things that last longer Because you can store them you can use them later on it's just you know when you go to the store You think more about what you're actually buying because you can't it's you know You can't just drop by the store like after work and it takes two minutes You have to like drive out to it around here. Um, so you definitely think more you think more long term. Okay so, um, I definitely if you guys are You know, if you if you're sitting on money right now and you're thinking about doing it Go ahead and do it if you're a wage cook If you're working like a dead-end job in the city and you know, you might want to um Well, I don't know like it's really the psychological barrier because I guarantee you you can go to one of these small towns And go to church and someone will give you a job there Like I don't know that just how it just give them a firm handshake literally that's often how it works around here Um, it's it's like moving into the past I guess um, uh, but um If you if you want to experiment, of course, you know, I did some experimentation before I actually moved out here um not just at the place that I You know the the place I live now is I live around family members and stuff But additionally, you know, I thought about moving to Tennessee. I did some videos on that a couple years ago And I just went out for a week or so State at some air b&b's went to some places. I don't know churches and the college and you know Just looked around at the environment and stuff like that Um, so I reckon, you know, if you're if you don't know what to do Just take it take a weekend off go somewhere into the country just live around there do everything you can Go to any social events go to any churches like just do everything you like just get a get a feel for it Because once you break that psychological boundary, it's not going to be a big issue um, even if you know, you're going to be making less money and um, I don't know things are just getting I don't know it's just less and less desirable Like the thing is a lot of people here's what a lot of people think they think Oh, if I'm living in the city and I'm making let's say I'm making six figures at my job Well, if I move to the country, I'm going to be making less way less In fact, I should stay on one more year at my company Just so I can make a little more money just so I can, you know, make it easier for that transition But the thing is the more you work in the system sometimes Um, you just get more ensconced in it. You there are more reasons you get you you can't leave, you know what? I mean, uh, that was the way I felt like my only regret is Not leaving earlier, um Even though like I got higher up the rang and you know education and academia and stuff like that What a what a what a waste like, uh, you know when it comes down to it, um I don't know like again, it's like a Uh battle between your personal freedom and quote-unquote money and money doesn't mean that much if you don't have your personal freedom, frankly Uh, so yeah, that's why I did it and that's why you should do it too One one final note. Um, I know that the last guy asked about, you know Oh, what if I go into the country and I get a quote dead-end job? There are no dead-end jobs in the country Yeah, you might wage cuck for a little bit but the percentage of dead-end jobs are like so much less than there are in the city And uh, that's a good thing Okay, let me put it this way. Um, I've thought about started starting my own business out here and you know in order to do that I got by, um, you know gotta buy, you know a physical location maybe and stuff like that And I looked into prices like there's this building I was thinking about buying I looked into its price It was $30,000 That was it like $30,000 is like cheaper than a house, you know Um, it's easier to be entrepreneurial out here if you're dude if you if you watch my channel and you know how to use computers Just go out Go, you know paste posters. Oh, I'll fix your computer. Uh, here's uh, here's my prices. Here's what I do Okay, great. You you have some minor income stuff like that people out here They don't know how to use compute want people nowhere know how to use computers But um, you just got to think about, you know, when you think of rural people when you meet these people There are I mean, we can we can make fun of urban bugmen all we want But um, there are many skills that rural people do not have just because they don't have, you know The big money they don't have like big technology stuff like that So all of you guys who are watching my channel, there's some there's something entrepreneurial You can do a lot of these guys have this idea that like it's their job to be a wage cook Like they need to find a place where they can fit as a worker No, you don't need that you can easily do your own thing like it's not difficult I mean or if you hey if you got rich on chain link No problem