 So when I repeatedly do videos talking about how I recommend people to move to the country Save up lots of money and buy a house basically in cash. Okay. There are really two reasons for that. Okay Reason number one is the more superficial thing that most people know about and that is it's cheaper if you think about it, right? It's basically impossible to get a suburban house or an urban house now That's less than a quarter of a million dollars. Okay, or sometimes half a million dollars if it's a if it's in a nicer area Okay, so that's a lot of money You're gonna be paying that off for a long time the lifestyle in a suburban or an urban area is much more expensive You're gonna you might be taking full 30 years to pay off that mortgage basically your entire life Okay, so it's great to move to the country. Okay, it's great to get a cheap place to live Even if it's a fixer upper, right? You know, but you you can easily not get a fixer upper But it's easy to get a house in the country even still today for less than a hundred thousand bucks prices have definitely gone up But in the house in the country, let's be clear. It's not just a house It's not a house in a suburban lot where you have to mow the grass twice a week where you can't You can't make too much noise. You can't have a workshop. You can't expand out You can't have animals can't grow anything blah blah blah because of the homeowners association. It's not like that Country and the land or land in the country is much more valuable because you can expand out Okay, so you're getting more for your money and if you're living there your entire life It's not you don't have to worry about it being an investment will property in the city keep going up in price Oh, sure great And maybe your house will go up in price as well But that doesn't mean anything to you when you're tethered to that land Like your your main dwelling is not an investment, right? That's like that's like real estate finance 101, right? It's not an investment. Don't mortgage that thing. Don't sell it out Okay, but so that's the superficial reason that I recommend people to do that because as it is right now It's gonna be easier to buy stuff in the country and your money is gonna go further But reason number two is arguably more important and that is it's this okay if you go to the country and you buy In a lot of plots actually a lot of places in the country You can't even they won't even sell you a lot divided less than five acres or so, okay? So let's say you have five acres, right? If you compare that to a suburban household, what is that gonna be worth? Even if the price has gone up, what are you gonna be able to do on that in a hundred years and not yes I'm thinking I'm thinking in hundreds of years kind of area, right? Because the goal is not For you to just have this property that you're gonna later sell when you're older you're about to die My goal is to have land that can be generational wealth so that when you have kids, right? They're not gonna have to worry about all the time. Oh my goodness I'm I gonna pay for this monthly payment and oh if I get this how I'm gonna have nowhere to crash and all this kind of Stuff if you have five acres, right and you can put a tiny home on that, right? You can you can take care of your grandma who needs a place to stay you can take care of some cousin You can build other houses on your land if you have enough room And in fact even if you have just a couple acres that is easily I mean remember like suburban Areas right people are squeezed onto like eighth of an acre lots or like quarter of an acre lots if they're lucky, right? So You have lots more room like if you have land in a rural area Which firstly is going to be pretty stable like you don't know what any city is going to look like in 30 years Again the property values on paper might be going up But if you are trying to like make a uh bug out, you know location or a like survivalist, you know Long time living area in a suburb in the suburbs or something like that. That's kind of a lark, right? Um and really, you know one I I'm all for like kind of survivalist stuff and like doomsday prepping That's a thing. That's the word I'm looking for Um, but I don't like I don't like that term because really what we call doomsday prepping That's what every single human in the world did or at least, you know in post agricultural societies Uh all the time right a hundred years ago Everyone had barns where they had lots of storage for grains and stuff like that And they they they would all every they would can as much as they could and all this kind of stuff That was just normal, okay? So I don't I don't like the term doomsday prepper because it's really that's just like the term for a normal human It's we who are the weird ones who like have to go to the grocery store every week to buy something. Anyway, that's just the tangent Either way the real purpose of owning land and this is why it's so important to have it in the country Is to have a kind of stability That's going to last for decades, right? You're going to be able to use it your kids are going to be able to use it Uh, their kids are going to be able to use it and once you have some land, especially if it's very rural You can look about you know as you accumulate more wealth because you're not you know paying off monthly payments all the time Um, you can start looking at acquiring more. Okay, then think about uh investment properties. I can do something with that So, uh, that's what I recommend to people and you know, this of course is exactly what I've done. Um in my life, obviously um Because when I I want to say around 2015 Maybe maybe no maybe closer to 2017. I'm not I'm not quite sure but there was a point in my life It was when I lived in arizona Where I was basically at rock bottom financially like I got to a point where I basically had zero dollars All right, I had like, you know some money in my checking account But I had it was equal to the liabilities. I had I was like, oh shoot, man Like I'm I'm totally like, oh, I got this like $2,000. But like I oh, I gotta pay it You know gotta pay my like landlord or whatever like I was without a job at that point I was like totally screwed like I was totally screwed and that that is one of the You know, whenever life gives you lemons, right? Um, that was probably I'm so glad that that happened I'm not like telling everyone what even is going on But I will just say struggles in your life are fantastic Because they encourage you to take the risks. You know, you should have taken anyway, right? And so at that point in my life, I'd always been thinking about oh, you know, maybe I'll move to the country someday I'll save up and I'll blah blah blah But because like basically I was at this period of my life where I lost what I thought I had, right Then I was like, well shoot. I got to actually do this. I got to actually put my money where my mouth is Except for I don't have any money. But anyway, what I was saying is um You know just the the the couple years passed in I was just I I never made more than like 40 000 a year or something like that, you know, I was I was not I was working as a grad student and then like, uh Well, I don't know you guys know some of my job history. I'm not going to divulge it, but it's it's pretty uh You know, it's odd jobs But I was putting away Maybe 20 000 a year into savings and that was enough that was enough to get uh a rural place And um, I was lucky to just get it. I would be paying more if I were paying after inflation now But it's not that much more. It would be like an extra year or two of saving up, right? Which isn't in the long in the grand scheme of things. Yeah Like although I'm not a big fan of like mortgages and stuff like that if um, don't be afraid of doing one of those If you plan on paying it off pretty quick like if you just need Uh, well, I don't know some some banks won't even give you mortgages that are like less than 20 000 or something like that But um, I don't know. Yeah, there are ways of working that out Uh, honestly, when if it's just a couple thousand bucks you can borrow from friends on it now I'm just rambling. I'm literally just rambling. So yeah, that's my point So the goal is not just to have a land have land and not make a monthly payment The goal is to have something that you are going to have for the rest of your life And it's going to be basically how you How you make it like you're not going to have to worry about how the city's going to change How the what the homeowners association is going to do any of that kind of crap You are kind of your own boat and you don't have to worry about it Okay, that that is the actual goal stability, right? So real stability that's going to last Potentially centuries, right if you do things, right? I don't know who knows who knows what the next centuries will hold But you got to think in centuries, right?