>>2057504agree 100%. you're better off working on a plan that involves little or no living cost, buying cash being the top scenario, or a long term mortgage on a cheap house. Once tht's in place, you can afford to work part-time or on and off, with over the course of a year or two, puts you in a postion to produce a sgnificant shar of you basic food, which is further savings.
But they truly childish, they get it in their head they want to live this idealized "close-to-nature" life, but they can't imagine going out in the rain, a fall from heaven when they discover the existence of mud. They rush into it, quitting their job, instead of working slowly on getting fired so they leave with a severance package. They find a fixer upper, move in, haven't even bought any tools, discover tools are fucking expensive, and you can't, in fact borrow everything everytime.
I've seen at least three couples, with less knowledge than me, who got the idea after me, and already back in town after fucking it up.
meanwhile, I've been grinding, saving, acquiring tools, the house is already bought, on a 10 year peanuts mortgage, also bought cash 3 acres of wood nearby for free heating, been working beside my retarded white collar job with craftsmen friends, getting knowledge, and a network of people I've helped out who've already let me know they'll come in with their gear on specifc parts of the build.
I'm in the last stretch, I should be getting fired sometime before summer, I have already enough cash on the side for a car and half of the work left, and selling my flat in town should generate more or less the purchase value of the house after repying whts left of the mortgage for the aprtment.
I can smell it already, just need to pretend for another month or so and deal with the hassle of selling the apartment, then I can easily live on 3-4k a year working temp+jobs here and there+ a few a months off the books in construction,
