>>829763So much this.
The price of everything so expensive where we are, grocery prices rising every time you turn around, housing bubble, leading to ridiculous house prices, and subsequently property taxes, and on and on.
House prices are like 4-5x median income right now, which I think is the highest they have ever been. Wages have practically stagnated the last 30 years while many other things just keep going up and some have skyrocketed.
The American dream is going out the window and I'm so sick and disgusted by it. America today is like a pyramid scheme, and most of us are on the bottom. Or put another way, it's almost like a cleverly disguised form of slavery. Work work work work 50 hrs a week or more just to pay your bills and live and never get ahead or save any money or anything. Just work your whole life away and end up with nothing to show for it, all you did was increase the wealth of a few rich bankers that hold your mortgage note, the corporations that grow your food, and the government who take so much in taxes and then blow it on shit you don't approve of anyway like killing thousands of people and a whole bunch of other nonsense.
Alright now that I got that out if the way (yes I feel a little better) I will get on to the reason I decided to reply.
We are looking at buying 5 acres in North Florida, you can still get land there for like $5k per acre. $25k, 5 ac lots out in the country, few thousand down, $199/mo payment, no credit check required.
I am going to build a house and a barn and we will have some chickens, cows, etc. Some solar panels and a diesel generator. Grow some of our own food. I was thinking about brewing bio diesel and maybe selling the excess for cash once I got good at it. Try and be as self sufficient as possible.
You know, 5 Acres and Independence.
I also think that we are going to see Weimar Republic levels of hyper inflation in our lifetimes, and maybe even relatively soon (especially if Trump wins). But there
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