I don't know how it is in The US, but here in Poland any software dev goes full remote basically after 2-3 years by default, so money is a non issue for any devs out here. But man, land is so fucking expensive here, and bureaucracy is on a such high level that even with your own land you can't do shit cuz officials stick to anything you do. Can't even build you own house on your own land without hundreds of hours of paperwork, endless visits from clerks and, of course, extortion.
Same in Germany, brother. I recently thought about just helping semi-voluntarily on a farm or working and learning actual hardworking skills. Bail out of my country or even the continent isn’t an option and if I can’t have my own place, I‘d help where there already is a comfortable setup.
I know whst you mean id love to buy a hektsr around my parents plqce but its at least 60k to buy, qnother 100k to build yourself and then some for the paperwork. For thoseninterested thats zloty, but convert it one to one dollars. Ypu can build eithout permission as long as your neighbors arent jelous snitches, and or the building is classed as temporary ergo no real foundation.
The “omg this is just like Minecraft meme” is so damn good. It’s just a multilayered Big-IQ tier meme that so accurately explains the woes of modern life
Life is an allegory to Minecraft. All the way from the transistors in the processors that run Minecraft to the Java Runtime Environment to the bytecode itself. Each component that contributes to a properly functioning installation of Minecraft has an equivalent, albeit simpler, component in this universe. The universe is entirely inexplicable without comparing it to Minecraft and notch (the creator of all tangible existence).
@@blitzer658 When they separate, man is no more. In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being.
On behalf of all of us out in the country who made this move already, we ask you a favor. When you leave, and you come to an area that, as Luke put it, is like something from the past, please think about why that is, and that you are choosing to join that, before you start local voting or political activism. I'm not asking you not to vote. I am, however, asking you, politely, to consider that the locals have kept things working based on certain systems of belief that, while you might not share, do at least deserve your respect. There is no magic dirt. The folks in rural areas don't happen to live in areas that don't have some of the same problems that major cities do by circumstance. It is their moral and ethical choices in driving their communities that lead to that state. It is therefore prudent to attempt to understand that mindset, and the reasons why, before new citizens decide to try to change it. Those of you leaving the cities have communities to take refuge in. Those of us already there do not.
Brilliant! The thing that stuck with me was at the end. I'd say I'm pretty institutionalized right now and still work my day job just because I think I need to bank more for the "rainy day fund". The funniest part about all this? I was born in a town with less than 10,000 people out in the country... It's funny how the system grabs a hold of us and enslaves us. How we value money over happiness and are prisoners of fear and what if's. Good on Luke for breaking of that cycle and moving to the country. The only thing I'd add... Cities have their conveniences and that is probably my biggest roadblock. *I'm looking at you... High-Speed Internet*
Yes, the connectivity to my community (internet, neighbors and proximity to community, public transportation) plus the need to drive vs walk to places I like to go (parks, store, library, work/school) heavily outweigh living in the 'country' for my and my needs. I grew up near a
I hear you..It took me close to retirement years to get out of the city.When your mind finally gets around the idea that a big city paycheck isn’t forever you get wise real quick and leave before your stuck forever.
I always tell myself if I was born in a town like yours I would have gotten into software in high school and been one of those early remote workers, staying in my hometown. I'm a filthy Zoomer, obviously, because no one else is young enough to have grown up with remote work as an option, and I would have grown up in one of the rural towns with actually good internet because my mom is from a pretty well off part of rural America, to the point that I remember my grandparents getting an internet connection sufficient for software development (but not HD video calls and UA-cam streaming above 480p) when I was like 12. Remote work was on my radar back then because a lot of software devs had already begun working in teams assembled across the globe using things like Github. That would have been the life. Instead I'm trying to escape the suburbs, which have all the crushing problems of rural life and city life combined. It's a 30 minute drive to get everywhere, except now I'm surrounded by strangers, stuck in traffic, with very little of that city life convenience. For me, that town of 10,000 people where all the commerce is locally owned businesses downtown with a well stocked library is all I need. Of course, because I no longer have family ties to a place like that, it's hard to move there and leave the convenience of the city.
Regarding animal keeping: I have lived with family on a 2.5 acre block since I was seven (20 years) & have comfortably been able to support 3 full sized cows, roughly 20 chickens, 1 sheep and 1 horse concurrently. The key is moving the animals to prevent certain sections of land from being over-grazed at any given time. 1 acre would likely be sufficient for any person aiming for a minimal farm setup.
I had a chart that gave recommendations. I can’t find it now, but I believe it was something like 1 acre per 25 chickens OR 10 sheep OR 2 cows OR 2 horses, but you’d have to buy some feed (esp in winter). Don’t quote me on that. AFAIK, goats are the most economic farm animals as long as you can milk them. Chickens are up there, but eggs are cheap. Sheep are up there too, but shearing is a pain and is typically a 1-2x per year thing (depending on breed)
@@medleysa I live N of Houston. Lots of people I know raise goats for that reason. Usually those men get into raising livestock for economic reasons. HUGE tax incentives in TX.
I work in the IT department of an organization that provides professional medical care to people. The man or woman cutting you open to do surgery does *not* know: -what their username or password is -why passwords have to be changed every N number of days -which browser they are using -where the start button is on their screen -whether they are using a laptop or a desktop pc sleep tight!
Land prices have gone up significantly in the US since this video. Even in a lot of rural areas, 1 acre costs at least over $100k. Basically only a very small percentage of the population will ever be able to afford land and a home these days. But of course, massive corporations like Black Rock and foreigners keep buying up everything.
Honestly you have it easy other there. 1 acre? lmao this is unheard of in here, you'd be lucky if you even find 1/4th of an acre for sale and I'm not talking about the price. 1/8th of an acre in a remote place where I live will cost you 150-250k $.
You have it figured out like so many don’t... If I could start over I wouldn’t have waited until close to retirement to get out of the city...I started with 4 acres but now have 20... And all I keep thinking is how much I could have done on this property if I had 20 plus years...Life in the country is really living.. Yes,my only regret is not leaving the city earlier.
@@Reiman33 I left after my 4 years in the military.. I literally left with nothing but a bag of cloths and 1k … not easy,but nothing worth doing is ever easy.
Anonymous Anonymous I’ve heard going off-grid in those countries is a shitshow because of regulations and the government always sticking their nose in your business and stuff. Thoughts?
@@yana_2_6_0 >is a shitshow because of regulations and the government always sticking their nose in your business and stuff No one really gives a shit about you or laws in Eastern Europe(but it may depend on country - Poland will certainly be more lawful then Russia). I live in Ukraine and i haven't pay income tax(which is 5% by the way - can you imagine such shit in USA?) for half-year and no one gives a damn, i haven't even get phone calls from tax officer
@@anonymousanonymous9407 idgaf where I'm at so I don't think it's out of the question. I think I'll need a linguistics phd of my own to learn any of those languages though lol
@@yana_2_6_0 >of my own to learn any of those languages though The funky part is that you don't need to learn them, you can live even in Russia with english only - but you can get problems with reading some shit like reading price tags or store signboards but that are few common words that you'll just learn on your own after few month there. The general rule is the more westerner the country is - the easier it will be on english only(exceptic baltic countries - Estonia would probably one of the easiest choices to live pure english) - the Ukraine and Belarus would be easier than Russia, Poland will be easier than ukraine, Czechia will be easier than Poland. In big cities it's obliviously much easier, but you should better take "middle sized" cities because they're much cheaper to live in(so for example for Ukraine instead of being in Kyiv you want to be in Lviv - you can get good apartment near city center for like 300 usd per month, the prices on food are very cheap - if you'll buy from grannies from city markets(yes we have shit like eastern bazaars in post soviet teritories) it will be even cheaper, in Russia you wan't to be in Petersburg instead of Moscow, in Poland prob in Gdansk, Wroclaw, Katowize or Lodz instead of Warsaw, in CZ you want to be in Brno instead of Prague, although this does not apply to small countries like Slovakia, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, partly Hungary - the middle cities there are pretty small but if you like some comfy euro towns you can take a look on Kosize or Tartu). As for learning a slav/baltic/hungarian language - yeah it's a lot of job for westerner. Prob would be as hard for you as learning japanese or arabian - these languages are completely different from roman/germanic/celtic languages of western europe.
"JC, the net's going... The net's going black! JC! No more infolinks, transmissions of any kind. We'll start again, live in villages... If you receive this, if you survive... Then find us. FIND US!" - Luke Smith, circa 2022
Often I think about "going up" in academia but every time I watch one of Luke's videos about living in the country I get reminded of how much of a waste academic life can be.
One thing that you need to take into consideration is the cost of health insurance. An overwhelming proportion of bankruptcies and financial devastation in America happens to be related to medical care and its broken cost to individuals. That's 100% a necessary expense and one of the reasons why even if you were to find forms of passive income, it's best to find some form of employment that will pay for your health insurance to some capacity.
Norway has a lot of land and pristine nature though. I'm sure there are options to get some land, guns, and small-scale farming. Even Japan, where I am, has more homesteaders then you would otherwise imagine. I was watching a local TV bit about two married couples in their 20s who live in the mountains about an hour outside my city. They have houses about 15 walk from each other. One family made a living off hunting and the other made a living off chicken farming. They sell their high-quality meats to nice restaurants in the city. It looked super-comfy and their children had a great lifestyle.
@@赵䟏 bruh, I ve heard in "the country" equivalent of China, there are a bunch of CCP propaganda and is harder to live than the city, due to the lack of infrastructure.
Just noticed one thing - in Europe, that landscape in the thumbnail wouldn't be considered countryside but rather some town, or city center with parks.
Ok but important question.. what's your internet like? I went from $50/mo 1gb fiber to $110/mo for slower speeds now that I'm outside city limits and I had to restart the router to post this comment. I got an acre this year a few minutes out of a small town. With even just 1 acre, I feel so spoiled with space, peace and quiet that I can't help but desire even more in the future. Not sure if that'll ever happen, but I do know for sure I won't be moving closer to any cities! I also always find it crazy how people move to LA or NY to create an internet startup or business, where every expense will be inflated. I get it if you need local experts in certain fields that you'll most likely find in silicon valley or NYC, but I'm always grateful I grew up in a pretty cheap and unpopular part of the country.
you could get a square mile of land in croatia, practically in the national park but the whole area is crisscrossed with mines. the vegetation took over and it needs to be cleared first which makes the problem much bigger.
You guys in America are so lucky with this stuff. In the UK this is more or less impossible without about £500,000. The land without planning permission/house for 5 acres would be about £70k, but you're not allowed to live on it - even in a tent. With a house/planning permission you're looking at half a mil - basically trapped in the system, paying a mortgage until you're 70 or 80. I love the American spirit of self and community reliance / anti federalisation you have. Do you still have the homesteading act?
Yes, 2 years later, but we still have the Homestead Act. It is certain states though because the states have different laws. Where Luke lives, Florida, there is
People who like technology and want to live in the country should look for permaculture. It's the engineer's version of living of the land, it's all about efficiency, control, etc.
I left the city, moved out to the country, no real education but worked for the hospital IT in town. Did really well, and so well I decided to get a degree at 30yrs old (engineering). Got the state to pay for it. Did a CC and now at a BIG t20 school but back in the city. It sucks ass. I mean really really really sucks. Once you go out and become self sufficient any other lifestyle seems like a joke, or shell, or husk of what life could be.
my problem is i need my broadband, so im gonna end up paying a premium so i can continue to work my 9-5. you should also make sure you get AGRICULTURAL land. do not go residential you will not be able to have animals except a few chickens...
I have been wanting to do this for a while. The best way to get rich is to make some money but spend none of it, and that's just easier to do when you have some land in the middle of nowhere.
For everything except the shooting range you're fine on a couple acres. If you want a shooting range, you need to decide how far and then everywhere you look at is going to be based on that distance and most importantly WHAT'S BEHIND IT - you're going to want to build a dirt berm behind your targets as a bulletstop no matter what's behind it. Even just 100yards/meters is a surprisingly large number of acres, going out to 500y/m is really going to be expensive. If 50-100 is your max distance you should be okay affording it on a normal job. Also, don't forget to figure in your property taxes into your yearly living costs.
The way I'm set up now is I can be a wagecuck but my employers will give me a free masters and a LOT of good training for my industry. Once I start working there I'll see how much I can save in 5 years and hopefully itll be enough to get land and start homesteading.
@@migkillerphantom It basically is software, just not dev. Like Luke said, tons of jobs are remote, and plus you can share your skills with the surrounding community with an entrepreneurial spirit.
The U.S. is fucked in many ways, but one thing we still have is s a lot of land. Hell, about 70% of the land west of the Mississippi is BLM land that you can basically live on in a RV for free as long as you move every two weeks.
Thomas Borowski yeah it’s more expensive but no matter where you life in west or south Germany you’ll be in a 50km radius of a large city, so it’s much easier to get a high paying job
I'm 28, a city python-soydev boy trying to do things right. Is it too late for me to start learning the rural ways and going to a rural place? I aim to achieve actual systems on the land, like some farming, some building (like a workshop) while still doing some dev work?
@@ix6510 Re-Read my post a month later and you are absolutely correct sir. I have started working towards more independance already, hopefully next year I'll have most of my goals sorted out. Ty
This is a greatly inspirational video. I want to move away from the city so bad. I'm still going through college in order to wagecuck my way out of the city, but it is one of my main priorities. Land is considerably expensive where I live (Rio de Janeiro), but I aim to put my efforts in that direction nonetheless.
@@VimUser-cz3xx finished college. I paid money to do some other courses to make more money, so now I gotta make money to pay for the thing that I bought to make money
respect to RandomGaminginHD, a channel on youtube that makes money from stuff you said and through youtube, whilst living in the pretty countryside and having paid off his property.
I'm in college right now near Baltimore, and I can not wait to move out to the country. I've been to places like Texas and Tennessee, and they definitely resonate with me way more than Maryland does. Up here, it's quite sad because not many people know God and don't follow Christ. I want to move to a place that I will resonate with spiritually and politically, and the southern country areas fits those bills perfectly. Plus, having a few acres of land would be perfect for me because I'm a beekeeper and I'm interested in owning chickens and starting a large garden. To whoever reads this, thank you for your time, and God bless you!
I've got an acre of property in northern rural MD with chickens and a greenhouse & garden. It's doable in this state, but it definitely sucks overall from a cultural standpoint. Just 15 minutes north in PA everything feels more traditionally "human"
@@RoyalProtectorate It's a good number. Even, so it doesn't tickle my autism, and it's not death or Satan. Maybe I should accept seven even though it's not even, though, for good luck. Get myself exactly 7.77 acres.
Funny reading comments here when my family owns 600 acres but besides appreciating it being there it is I'm really not interested in actually working on it witnessing firesthand how hard farm work is.
I have a house since about 8yrs ago but it's in a neighborhood just outside of a city (not a 'named' community though). I do have 1 acre of land split between the back and front but I only wished I could've had more time (and money) to have searched for a better place further away. The catch is (as it is for many) that it's not reasonable to get a place in the boonies even if it's cheap if you have to compromise by driving for hours to get to the nearest grocery store or to work. The other catch is that land is only big and cheap if it's either: So far away from civilization it's stupid or the land itself is not deemed very good to build a house on. Only then will it be cheap. Large tracks of land even somewhat outside of a town will still rob you blind, even without a house attached.
Great video, I’ve grown up and still live in a city and after a couple of weeks I’m very seriously considering building up a lifestyle similar to yours, very very inspiring
Becoming liquidarian is a huge liberating improvement for those food related concerns. Other obstacles stand in the way for me however, unplugging from the dystopian matrix has many layers.
Derived from Middle English aker (from Old English aecer) and akin to Latin ager (“field”), the acre had one origin in the typical area that could be plowed in one day with a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow. The Anglo-Saxon acre was defined as a strip of land 1 × 1/10 furlong, or 40 × 4 rods (660 × 66 feet).
Actually, youn NEVER own your property, even when it has no morgage attached to it. Try not to pay the property tax, which can be asses at levels you have no control over and won't be able to pay. Some local goverment officials and their families are known to steal your home, or homestead for being late few months. Just a reminder.
Been planning on getting into the country for a little bit now. Moved into the city for university, been living in the same while working after graduation. The past few months have reminded me of how terrible city living is. I grew up on 5 acres with goats and chickens, climbing trees and building catapults. Getting back out into the woods is going to be so much fun.
Considering some academics (uncle Ted, Grothendieck, etc) move into the wild after a while, i was wondering why did you eventually decide knowledge wasn't as valuable as a living in the country.. Thank you
@@JK-pi6ji in the old days people learned those things without formal academia, most of the population probably needs tutoring to understand the concepts and reading at the library isn't enough... but academia isn't entirely necessary to learn, it's only necessary to put it on a resume so you can tell an employer that you've learned
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD even people who learn mostly by reading on their own, might discover that through exercises or lectures, the ideas sort of come to life and become normalized. It's good to be able to discuss them with your peers. It's good to have some teacher above. And lectures are voluntary, if that's not one's cup of tea.. Amazingly, all mathematical textbooks are online. Still some physics textbooks or non-english books, might only be found in university libraries. You are right that, theoretically, academia isn't necessary for one to learn. But I would say it's the most effective way to learn (only talking about stem). Have you ever met even just an undergrad level physicist who didn't have any formal education? Or would you trust an engineer or doctor who was self-taught. I would dare to claim it's not just a piece of paper, and if it is, you either chose a made up discipline or just had crap education.
Most states have "homestead exemptions" for your primary residences where you can avoid or at least substantially deduct taxes. I haven't paid them yet for where I live, but I think mine would be around $700 per year after the exemption. Without the deduction it might be about twice as much.
As most of this isnt applicable at all to europe, im more interested in what you do to make money besides credit card churning, which is a neat thing if you have a good income
I was talked out of a 5 acre plot + glorified log cabin when I bought a house recently in part from the commute. Ended up getting 2/3 of an acre closer to work as it was still a step away from apartment with about the same commute(never liked the idea of living in city). Looking at moving eventually, land is a touch expensive here so I'm probably going to move quite a ways away. Which States are best?
Ok, you inspired me but the prices are so shit in my native country (it's way more complicated where I currently live)!! 0.2 acres is what I can get for around the same price maybe I'm not looking in the right place but holy damn
Have I ever told you the story of Darth Luke the wise? ...ironic. He tried to help your life and you betrayed his wisdom, now you merely exist as the cog you sought to destroy...
Thank you man got real tired of East Coasts ever increasing cost of living so I'm moving to the West Virginia/Maryland/Pennsylvania region of Appalachia I'm young finally have enough credit score to get a mortgage when I'm ready for now going to rent since it's still very cheap here to find a town/area I want to live by long term then I'll buy an affordable home and enjoy freedom, the company of kind good hearte
Clump of a tree landed on my phone made me post early anyways the company of great people and enjoying the low expense high appreciation of what I do have lifestyle the opposite of keeping up with the joneses. I'm a legal weed farmer and love my life.
Do you have any advice on searching for land with decent internet access in a rural area? (If you've talked about this in a past video, can you provide a link?) I think metrics like latency, throughput and reliability are important, but what's viable will vary depending on the job. Was it a pretty manual process of finding internet providers in the areas you considered buying? What metrics did you consider? And what metrics do you wish you considered more closely in retrospect?
I can't do all this covid stuff. I just want to move to a small Christian town. I have a degree in health sciences and I am a nursing assistant only making 17$/hr. I want to go into nursing but I'm afraid they will mandate the vaccine for healthcare workers. Taking the vaccine is not an option. I feel like if they mandate it my whole career path will be wasted. I want to move but I have next to no life skills... but I do have about 25k saved up, which will be used for nursing school and rent... I'm so conflicted
I saw you commented that you decided on Florida because it was closer to family, what do you think of people homesteading to Montana? I live in buttfuck nowhere Illinois rn, so I'm not unfamiliar with living in the country, but I think I would live Montana because of the mountains, forests, and climate.
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this shit never gets old
every video
Buying gf
In 10 years we'll find Luke in the bayou, hunting crocodiles and living with the revenue of the meat sales
Croc tendies are so good.
I don't know how it is in The US, but here in Poland any software dev goes full remote basically after 2-3 years by default, so money is a non issue for any devs out here. But man, land is so fucking expensive here, and bureaucracy is on a such high level that even with your own land you can't do shit cuz officials stick to anything you do. Can't even build you own house on your own land without hundreds of hours of paperwork, endless visits from clerks and, of course, extortion.
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Same in Germany, brother. I recently thought about just helping semi-voluntarily on a farm or working and learning actual hardworking skills. Bail out of my country or even the continent isn’t an option and if I can’t have my own place, I‘d help where there already is a comfortable setup.
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gotta "plug the tax gap" ;)
I know whst you mean id love to buy a hektsr around my parents plqce but its at least 60k to buy, qnother 100k to build yourself and then some for the paperwork. For thoseninterested thats zloty, but convert it one to one dollars. Ypu can build eithout permission as long as your neighbors arent jelous snitches, and or the building is classed as temporary ergo no real foundation.
bruh just place a bed on territory and it's yours
Sheeeit main, that's what they do here in South Africa.
lol just like they do on cali streets
That how people in my country claim whole hills and mountains
The “omg this is just like Minecraft meme” is so damn good. It’s just a multilayered Big-IQ tier meme that so accurately explains the woes of modern life
Life is an allegory to Minecraft. All the way from the transistors in the processors that run Minecraft to the Java Runtime Environment to the bytecode itself. Each component that contributes to a properly functioning installation of Minecraft has an equivalent, albeit simpler, component in this universe. The universe is entirely inexplicable without comparing it to Minecraft and notch (the creator of all tangible existence).
How and why?
@@blitzer658 When they separate, man is no more. In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being.
@@neuronx8370 this is the best comment i have read iin mty life thank youu
@barnoftheyard more important question is who approves their commits?
On behalf of all of us out in the country who made this move already, we ask you a favor.
When you leave, and you come to an area that, as Luke put it, is like something from the past, please think about why that is, and that you are choosing to join that, before you start local voting or political activism.
I'm not asking you not to vote. I am, however, asking you, politely, to consider that the locals have kept things working based on certain systems of belief that, while you might not share, do at least deserve your respect.
There is no magic dirt. The folks in rural areas don't happen to live in areas that don't have some of the same problems that major cities do by circumstance. It is their moral and ethical choices in driving their communities that lead to that state. It is therefore prudent to attempt to understand that mindset, and the reasons why, before new citizens decide to try to change it.
Those of you leaving the cities have communities to take refuge in. Those of us already there do not.
Well said.
Tfw normies make socialist utopia in your countryside neighbourhood
@K F mega based
tell that to all the degens that voted democrat and now are basically Escape From L.A. to Texas and still vote democrat
Rural areas have pretty high crime rates too, just less people to give a shit about it
I've always wanted Luke to explain his faith and how he found/discovered it
Iirc he once said that you don't choose your religion/faith. You get born into it, so I guess that's how he got into it. Changing religion is cringe
Well it’s all make believe so..
I am from India,i got farm land and will start dairy farm grow my own food.I think similar to Luke.
I'm also from India but I don't have land in village😢
Do you have an update on that?
Brilliant! The thing that stuck with me was at the end. I'd say I'm pretty institutionalized right now and still work my day job just because I think I need to bank more for the "rainy day fund". The funniest part about all this? I was born in a town with less than 10,000 people out in the country...
It's funny how the system grabs a hold of us and enslaves us. How we value money over happiness and are prisoners of fear and what if's. Good on Luke for breaking of that cycle and moving to the country. The only thing I'd add... Cities have their conveniences and that is probably my biggest roadblock. *I'm looking at you... High-Speed Internet*
Darn ISPs!
Yes, the connectivity to my community (internet, neighbors and proximity to community, public transportation) plus the need to drive vs walk to places I like to go (parks, store, library, work/school) heavily outweigh living in the 'country' for my and my needs. I grew up near a
My Internet isn't bad and I live in a place with about 300 people, thank jeesüs
I hear you..It took me close to retirement years to get out of the city.When your mind finally gets around the idea that a big city paycheck isn’t forever you get wise real quick and leave before your stuck forever.
I always tell myself if I was born in a town like yours I would have gotten into software in high school and been one of those early remote workers, staying in my hometown. I'm a filthy Zoomer, obviously, because no one else is young enough to have grown up with remote work as an option, and I would have grown up in one of the rural towns with actually good internet because my mom is from a pretty well off part of rural America, to the point that I remember my grandparents getting an internet connection sufficient for software development (but not HD video calls and UA-cam streaming above 480p) when I was like 12. Remote work was on my radar back then because a lot of software devs had already begun working in teams assembled across the globe using things like Github. That would have been the life. Instead I'm trying to escape the suburbs, which have all the crushing problems of rural life and city life combined. It's a 30 minute drive to get everywhere, except now I'm surrounded by strangers, stuck in traffic, with very little of that city life convenience. For me, that town of 10,000 people where all the commerce is locally owned businesses downtown with a well stocked library is all I need. Of course, because I no longer have family ties to a place like that, it's hard to move there and leave the convenience of the city.
Regarding animal keeping: I have lived with family on a 2.5 acre block since I was seven (20 years) & have comfortably been able to support 3 full sized cows, roughly 20 chickens, 1 sheep and 1 horse concurrently. The key is moving the animals to prevent certain sections of land from being over-grazed at any given time. 1 acre would likely be sufficient for any person aiming for a minimal farm setup.
How much land does it take to farm villagers or zombie pigmen?
how many half- or quarter-sized cows would fit there
I had a chart that gave recommendations. I can’t find it now, but I believe it was something like 1 acre per 25 chickens OR 10 sheep OR 2 cows OR 2 horses, but you’d have to buy some feed (esp in winter). Don’t quote me on that.
AFAIK, goats are the most economic farm animals as long as you can milk them. Chickens are up there, but eggs are cheap. Sheep are up there too, but shearing is a pain and is typically a 1-2x per year thing (depending on breed)
@@medleysa I live N of Houston. Lots of people I know raise goats for that reason. Usually those men get into raising livestock for economic reasons. HUGE tax incentives in TX.
@@tann_man yup. I have friends in Spring that raise goats to get homestead and farm exemptions.
"People nowhere know how to use computers" - as an IT guy I felt that
I work in the IT department of an organization that provides professional medical care to people.
The man or woman cutting you open to do surgery does *not* know:
-what their username or password is
-why passwords have to be changed every N number of days
-which browser they are using
-where the start button is on their screen
-whether they are using a laptop or a desktop pc
sleep tight!
@@AugustusBohn0 but that’s because they know how to cut me open to fix something without Severing my artery. Can you do that?
@@medleysa yes
@@techmedia1360 cool do you have an opening within the next month? I can’t feel my left arm.
Land prices have gone up significantly in the US since this video. Even in a lot of rural areas, 1 acre costs at least over $100k. Basically only a very small percentage of the population will ever be able to afford land and a home these days. But of course, massive corporations like Black Rock and foreigners keep buying up everything.
It's a bubble, it'll crash. Then the land price should become more affordable again.
That's not true at all, I just bought 80 acres for 200k. You just have to be willing to move to the middle of nowhere
I’ve never heard of the foreigners corporation.
Honestly you have it easy other there. 1 acre? lmao this is unheard of in here, you'd be lucky if you even find 1/4th of an acre for sale and I'm not talking about the price.
1/8th of an acre in a remote place where I live will cost you 150-250k $.
@@root6572 where tf do you live?!?!?!?
You have it figured out like so many don’t... If I could start over I wouldn’t have waited until close to retirement to get out of the city...I started with 4 acres but now have 20... And all I keep thinking is how much I could have done on this property if I had 20 plus years...Life in the country is really living.. Yes,my only regret is not leaving the city earlier.
@@Reiman33 I left after my 4 years in the military.. I literally left with nothing but a bag of cloths and 1k … not easy,but nothing worth doing is ever easy.
*Looks up rural land prices in Scandinavian country*
Well I guess I'm going to be saving another 10 years for that.
Move to Eastern Europe(Poland, Ukraine, Russia) - you don't need to live in "muh mazerland cantri"
Anonymous Anonymous I’ve heard going off-grid in those countries is a shitshow because of regulations and the government always sticking their nose in your business and stuff. Thoughts?
@@yana_2_6_0
>is a shitshow because of regulations and the government always sticking their nose in your business and stuff
No one really gives a shit about you or laws in Eastern Europe(but it may depend on country - Poland will certainly be more lawful then Russia). I live in Ukraine and i haven't pay income tax(which is 5% by the way - can you imagine such shit in USA?) for half-year and no one gives a damn, i haven't even get phone calls from tax officer
@@anonymousanonymous9407 idgaf where I'm at so I don't think it's out of the question.
I think I'll need a linguistics phd of my own to learn any of those languages though lol
@@yana_2_6_0
>of my own to learn any of those languages though
The funky part is that you don't need to learn them, you can live even in Russia with english only - but you can get problems with reading some shit like reading price tags or store signboards but that are few common words that you'll just learn on your own after few month there. The general rule is the more westerner the country is - the easier it will be on english only(exceptic baltic countries - Estonia would probably one of the easiest choices to live pure english) - the Ukraine and Belarus would be easier than Russia, Poland will be easier than ukraine, Czechia will be easier than Poland. In big cities it's obliviously much easier, but you should better take "middle sized" cities because they're much cheaper to live in(so for example for Ukraine instead of being in Kyiv you want to be in Lviv - you can get good apartment near city center for like 300 usd per month, the prices on food are very cheap - if you'll buy from grannies from city markets(yes we have shit like eastern bazaars in post soviet teritories) it will be even cheaper, in Russia you wan't to be in Petersburg instead of Moscow, in Poland prob in Gdansk, Wroclaw, Katowize or Lodz instead of Warsaw, in CZ you want to be in Brno instead of Prague, although this does not apply to small countries like Slovakia, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, partly Hungary - the middle cities there are pretty small but if you like some comfy euro towns you can take a look on Kosize or Tartu). As for learning a slav/baltic/hungarian language - yeah it's a lot of job for westerner. Prob would be as hard for you as learning japanese or arabian - these languages are completely different from roman/germanic/celtic languages of western europe.
"JC, the net's going... The net's going black! JC! No more infolinks, transmissions of any kind. We'll start again, live in villages... If you receive this, if you survive... Then find us. FIND US!" - Luke Smith, circa 2022
Luke Smith explains cottage core
>made a bunch of money on chainlink
did he m-make it b-bros?
the only calm wojak across the sea of pink despair
'Tiny homes' = prefabs
to be expected from an arch user
~a gentoo user
Y'all cowards don't even build your libc, compiler and kernel by hand.
Where I live the "country" is like 20-30 mins from the city. I imagine it's like that in many places. Don't worry about finding a job.
Often I think about "going up" in academia but every time I watch one of Luke's videos about living in the country I get reminded of how much of a waste academic life can be.
If just one person can be saved from academia, Luke's entire channel will have been worth it.
Knowledge and Freedom are both important. Freedom first and foremost, because it's a prerequisite to the obtaining of knowledge.
@@secrecy3915 modern academia is not "knowledge"
@@bbseal6174 I'm not sure what you mean by modern academia, unfortunately.
Not really,
You should become a big sponsor of a uni, and kick out all the marxists and communists
One thing that you need to take into consideration is the cost of health insurance. An overwhelming proportion of bankruptcies and financial devastation in America happens to be related to medical care and its broken cost to individuals. That's 100% a necessary expense and one of the reasons why even if you were to find forms of passive income, it's best to find some form of employment that will pay for your health insurance to some capacity.
*Mobile home on a 2 acre lot for 15k~*
God damn, I know what I'm doing once I get back to work
In Canada atleast that’s illegal, you need running water and septic
Thanks for sharing your experience on independency, Luke. Greetings from Peru, South America. I want more videos like this one. Keep your work up.
Trying to do this coming from the west back to my beautiful home country of Romania
Just like the credit card hack, I don't think this applies to outside the US, atleast not in Norway.
I feel you bro. Too much struggle watching this and understand you don't have such freedom in your homeland.
Definately not in China too. Everything here is controlled by the CCP. Plus we have huge population.
Norway has a lot of land and pristine nature though. I'm sure there are options to get some land, guns, and small-scale farming.
Even Japan, where I am, has more homesteaders then you would otherwise imagine. I was watching a local TV bit about two married couples in their 20s who live in the mountains about an hour outside my city. They have houses about 15 walk from each other. One family made a living off hunting and the other made a living off chicken farming. They sell their high-quality meats to nice restaurants in the city. It looked super-comfy and their children had a great lifestyle.
@@赵䟏 bruh, I ve heard in "the country" equivalent of China, there are a bunch of CCP propaganda and is harder to live than the city, due to the lack of infrastructure.
@@anon4608 Very true. God I love the freedom of the anglosphere.
LETS FIND OUT
Really motivated by this vid, thanks for addressing these. I'm getting my finances in order and working out how to do this in a few years. Cheers
Start a homesteading channel with your wife.
>implying
no way he's married
@@CyberAndy_ yikes
@@CyberAndy_ the sad true
@Mialisus gamer moment
Just noticed one thing - in Europe, that landscape in the thumbnail wouldn't be considered countryside but rather some town, or city center with parks.
Ok but important question.. what's your internet like? I went from $50/mo 1gb fiber to $110/mo for slower speeds now that I'm outside city limits and I had to restart the router to post this comment. I got an acre this year a few minutes out of a small town. With even just 1 acre, I feel so spoiled with space, peace and quiet that I can't help but desire even more in the future. Not sure if that'll ever happen, but I do know for sure I won't be moving closer to any cities!
I also always find it crazy how people move to LA or NY to create an internet startup or business, where every expense will be inflated. I get it if you need local experts in certain fields that you'll most likely find in silicon valley or NYC, but I'm always grateful I grew up in a pretty cheap and unpopular part of the country.
starlink - 110/month
you could get a square mile of land in croatia, practically in the national park but the whole area is crisscrossed with mines. the vegetation took over and it needs to be cleared first which makes the problem much bigger.
You guys in America are so lucky with this stuff. In the UK this is more or less impossible without about £500,000. The land without planning permission/house for 5 acres would be about £70k, but you're not allowed to live on it - even in a tent. With a house/planning permission you're looking at half a mil - basically trapped in the system, paying a mortgage until you're 70 or 80. I love the American spirit of self and community reliance / anti federalisation you have. Do you still have the homesteading act?
Yes, 2 years later, but we still have the Homestead Act. It is certain states though because the states have different laws. Where Luke lives, Florida, there is
People who like technology and want to live in the country should look for permaculture. It's the engineer's version of living of the land, it's all about efficiency, control, etc.
I left the city, moved out to the country, no real education but worked for the hospital IT in town.
Did really well, and so well I decided to get a degree at 30yrs old (engineering). Got the state to pay for it. Did a CC and now at a BIG t20 school but back in the city. It sucks ass.
I mean really really really sucks.
Once you go out and become self sufficient any other lifestyle seems like a joke, or shell, or husk of what life could be.
my problem is i need my broadband, so im gonna end up paying a premium so i can continue to work my 9-5. you should also make sure you get AGRICULTURAL land. do not go residential you will not be able to have animals except a few chickens...
Your right about that.I knew nothing about raising animals at first..Now I can’t imagine not having them.
Sir Lenin, you are the great!
I always get thrown off when the crickets start. The white noise sounds like something is wrong with my audio.
"I should stay on one more year at my company..." Yup, said that.
I have been wanting to do this for a while. The best way to get rich is to make some money but spend none of it, and that's just easier to do when you have some land in the middle of nowhere.
For everything except the shooting range you're fine on a couple acres. If you want a shooting range, you need to decide how far and then everywhere you look at is going to be based on that distance and most importantly WHAT'S BEHIND IT - you're going to want to build a dirt berm behind your targets as a bulletstop no matter what's behind it. Even just 100yards/meters is a surprisingly large number of acres, going out to 500y/m is really going to be expensive. If 50-100 is your max distance you should be okay affording it on a normal job. Also, don't forget to figure in your property taxes into your yearly living costs.
Gotta pay gobornment rent
Consider the following: Flyover states
As a fellow Tennessean, I would 100% recommend it.
The way I'm set up now is I can be a wagecuck but my employers will give me a free masters and a LOT of good training for my industry. Once I start working there I'll see how much I can save in 5 years and hopefully itll be enough to get land and start homesteading.
Unless your industry is software, what good will that training be when you go to the countryside?
@@migkillerphantom It basically is software, just not dev. Like Luke said, tons of jobs are remote, and plus you can share your skills with the surrounding community with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Can be done if you focus on just that.
$50K would buy you nothing in The Netherlands :(
Got curious and started searching around to prove you wrong but damn, Netherlands' land is expensive.
@@HesapFeyk told you, wish you could prove me wrong :p
The U.S. is fucked in many ways, but one thing we still have is s a lot of land. Hell, about 70% of the land west of the Mississippi is BLM land that you can basically live on in a RV for free as long as you move every two weeks.
@@jimbarino2 Parts of Texas doesn't even require you to move and have zero building restrictions. On top of that... No state tax.
Thomas Borowski yeah it’s more expensive but no matter where you life in west or south Germany you’ll be in a 50km radius of a large city, so it’s much easier to get a high paying job
I'm 28, a city python-soydev boy trying to do things right.
Is it too late for me to start learning the rural ways and going to a rural place? I aim to achieve actual systems on the land, like some farming, some building (like a workshop) while still doing some dev work?
"is it too late..." Is the soy speaking. Just start working on it today literally nothing is stopping you
@@ix6510 Re-Read my post a month later and you are absolutely correct sir. I have started working towards more independance already, hopefully next year I'll have most of my goals sorted out. Ty
@@ezforsaken one year later. i hope you succeeded
Update time!
This is a greatly inspirational video. I want to move away from the city so bad. I'm still going through college in order to wagecuck my way out of the city, but it is one of my main priorities. Land is considerably expensive where I live (Rio de Janeiro), but I aim to put my efforts in that direction nonetheless.
@@-whackd nah I'm still an asphalt dweller
What are you doing now?
@@VimUser-cz3xx finished college. I paid money to do some other courses to make more money, so now I gotta make money to pay for the thing that I bought to make money
@@irreadings All the best for you bruh. Hope you make it
@@VimUser-cz3xx thanks bruv. Hope it all goes well for you too
respect to RandomGaminginHD, a channel on youtube that makes money from stuff you said and through youtube, whilst living in the pretty countryside and having paid off his property.
I'm in college right now near Baltimore, and I can not wait to move out to the country. I've been to places like Texas and Tennessee, and they definitely resonate with me way more than Maryland does. Up here, it's quite sad because not many people know God and don't follow Christ. I want to move to a place that I will resonate with spiritually and politically, and the southern country areas fits those bills perfectly. Plus, having a few acres of land would be perfect for me because I'm a beekeeper and I'm interested in owning chickens and starting a large garden. To whoever reads this, thank you for your time, and God bless you!
I've got an acre of property in northern rural MD with chickens and a greenhouse & garden. It's doable in this state, but it definitely sucks overall from a cultural standpoint. Just 15 minutes north in PA everything feels more traditionally "human"
Baltimore is particularly wretched too. I've seen many US cities & baltimore is in the bottom 15% of them.
I grew up on 24 acres of land. It was fucking EPIC
My biggest concern is health insurance and going to the hospital. I’ve gone pretty frequently already and I’m 21. Maybe someday :(
If you own your own place and don't have stupid harsh property taxes you can work 20 hours a week minimum wage and live as a single person.
Five acres would be no good. It has to be an even number that isn't six or four.
@@RoyalProtectorate It's a good number. Even, so it doesn't tickle my autism, and it's not death or Satan. Maybe I should accept seven even though it's not even, though, for good luck. Get myself exactly 7.77 acres.
@@RoyalProtectorate Actually, forget that. The unevenness makes my fingers feel wrong. Nope.
0
The plot has to be shaped like a puzzle piece
two
Thanks for addressing my questions :D What a guy
Funny reading comments here when my family owns 600 acres but besides appreciating it being there it is I'm really not interested in actually working on it witnessing firesthand how hard farm work is.
I have a house since about 8yrs ago but it's in a neighborhood just outside of a city (not a 'named' community though). I do have 1 acre of land split between the back and front but I only wished I could've had more time (and money) to have searched for a better place further away. The catch is (as it is for many) that it's not reasonable to get a place in the boonies even if it's cheap if you have to compromise by driving for hours to get to the nearest grocery store or to work. The other catch is that land is only big and cheap if it's either: So far away from civilization it's stupid or the land itself is not deemed very good to build a house on. Only then will it be cheap. Large tracks of land even somewhat outside of a town will still rob you blind, even without a house attached.
Great video, I’ve grown up and still live in a city and after a couple of weeks I’m very seriously considering building up a lifestyle similar to yours, very very inspiring
I recently moved to a property with some fig and loquat trees. Mind sharing any recipes?
Moving to the country gonna eat a lot of peaches.
Free and open source land and house. *Welcome to the country*
Becoming liquidarian is a huge liberating improvement for those food related concerns.
Other obstacles stand in the way for me however, unplugging from the dystopian matrix has many layers.
Not using metric system...
Kinda weird with your "acres"
Real Americans measure land area in units of squared effective range of an AR-15.
1 freedom rectangle = (300 yards)²
Reggie Stickleback bruh
Derived from Middle English aker (from Old English aecer) and akin to Latin ager (“field”), the acre had one origin in the typical area that could be plowed in one day with a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow. The Anglo-Saxon acre was defined as a strip of land 1 × 1/10 furlong, or 40 × 4 rods (660 × 66 feet).
Great video.
Please show us your garden or what you have grown out there.
We want to see it!
btw, I run VOID/Debian/Arch, yes all of them, on different hardware PC's!
That linkie smile
Dont forget to minecraft yourself some barriers against ATF tanks
CS GO-GO-GAS GO WOOOSH
I'm in my early 20's and barely have enough for my emergency fund. How can I start buying land?
Save
And make smart investments
One of the best videos I’ve ever seen. Answered all the objections I’ve had
Actually, youn NEVER own your property, even when it has no morgage attached to it. Try not to pay the property tax, which can be asses at levels you have no control over and won't be able to pay. Some local goverment officials and their families are known to steal your home, or homestead for being late few months. Just a reminder.
At least if you own it you control that tax being paid. Out of your hands when someone else does and you rent. Another freedom stripped away.
We are but serfs to our overlords. Full escape is actually impossible. State property baby😎
Better than wasting away in the city
we are tax chattel and always will be
Is this a real state tutorial ?
real estate tutorial by a real e-celeb
Been planning on getting into the country for a little bit now. Moved into the city for university, been living in the same while working after graduation. The past few months have reminded me of how terrible city living is. I grew up on 5 acres with goats and chickens, climbing trees and building catapults. Getting back out into the woods is going to be so much fun.
Considering some academics (uncle Ted, Grothendieck, etc) move into the wild after a while, i was wondering why did you eventually decide knowledge wasn't as valuable as a living in the country.. Thank you
"Knowledge" doesn't have anything to do with academia.
@@LukeSmithxyz Not even when it comes to pure math or physics?
@@JK-pi6ji in the old days people learned those things without formal academia, most of the population probably needs tutoring to understand the concepts and reading at the library isn't enough... but academia isn't entirely necessary to learn, it's only necessary to put it on a resume so you can tell an employer that you've learned
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD even people who learn mostly by reading on their own, might discover that through exercises or lectures, the ideas sort of come to life and become normalized. It's good to be able to discuss them with your peers. It's good to have some teacher above. And lectures are voluntary, if that's not one's cup of tea.. Amazingly, all mathematical textbooks are online. Still some physics textbooks or non-english books, might only be found in university libraries. You are right that, theoretically, academia isn't necessary for one to learn. But I would say it's the most effective way to learn (only talking about stem). Have you ever met even just an undergrad level physicist who didn't have any formal education? Or would you trust an engineer or doctor who was self-taught. I would dare to claim it's not just a piece of paper, and if it is, you either chose a made up discipline or just had crap education.
@@JK-pi6ji you can learn and then move to the country !
sudo pacman -S minecraft-launcher
And that's all
you forgot "yyu" in your "-S"
use multimc
Are there property taxes? And if so, how much roughly?
Most states have "homestead exemptions" for your primary residences where you can avoid or at least substantially deduct taxes. I haven't paid them yet for where I live, but I think mine would be around $700 per year after the exemption. Without the deduction it might be about twice as much.
@@LukeSmithxyz Thanks for the response. I was worried they were going to be a lot higher, but as you said it is going to depend on the state.
> Is it just like minecraft?
this is a challenge internet access is always a problem with rural land, FYI, tiny homes and travel trailers are illegal to live in most places
amazing vid. also, nice chainlink mention lmao
As most of this isnt applicable at all to europe, im more interested in what you do to make money besides credit card churning, which is a neat thing if you have a good income
Thank you so much for this video, without knowing this is exactly what I needed
I was talked out of a 5 acre plot + glorified log cabin when I bought a house recently in part from the commute. Ended up getting 2/3 of an acre closer to work as it was still a step away from apartment with about the same commute(never liked the idea of living in city). Looking at moving eventually, land is a touch expensive here so I'm probably going to move quite a ways away. Which States are best?
Come to TN if you're not a shitlib
“Just do x”
* ignores every barrier for doing x*
Typical gen x advice
In the US you can buy the space for 10 houses in the Netherlands for 20k😂 it is sooo cheap
Ok, you inspired me
but the prices are so shit in my native country (it's way more complicated where I currently live)!!
0.2 acres is what I can get for around the same price
maybe I'm not looking in the right place
but holy damn
@@cortezphenix9569
currently in: UAE
native from: Jordan
@@kquote03 الأردن بلد صغير
Have I ever told you the story of Darth Luke the wise? ...ironic. He tried to help your life and you betrayed his wisdom, now you merely exist as the cog you sought to destroy...
Didnt expect him to bring up Varg Vikernes. Are you a secret black metal fan, luke?
Thank you man got real tired of East Coasts ever increasing cost of living so I'm moving to the West Virginia/Maryland/Pennsylvania region of Appalachia I'm young finally have enough credit score to get a mortgage when I'm ready for now going to rent since it's still very cheap here to find a town/area I want to live by long term then I'll buy an affordable home and enjoy freedom, the company of kind good hearte
Clump of a tree landed on my phone made me post early anyways the company of great people and enjoying the low expense high appreciation of what I do have lifestyle the opposite of keeping up with the joneses. I'm a legal weed farmer and love my life.
I live in PA stay away from the cities. Central pa is great. People there are really friendly and the job market is good
Love from #ALGERIA 🇩🇿❤️
from tunisia here!!!
تحيا الجزاءر, اجمل من البلاد المسلمين الاخر
@@dhdh9933 love Tunisia 🇹🇳❤️🇩🇿
@@SaidMetiche-qy9hb thanks you're welcome Come visit algeria 🇩🇿❤️
@@massyliiإن شاء الله لان لا يوجد دولار في جيبي في هذ الوقت.
I don't yet have my majority and that's already what i'm planning to do: COUNTRY LIVE :D
Do you have any advice on searching for land with decent internet access in a rural area? (If you've talked about this in a past video, can you provide a link?) I think metrics like latency, throughput and reliability are important, but what's viable will vary depending on the job. Was it a pretty manual process of finding internet providers in the areas you considered buying? What metrics did you consider? And what metrics do you wish you considered more closely in retrospect?
He just got Starlink, check for coverage for it
Varg pilled, based
"Land is cheap" hahaha very funny Luke
I heard Little Saint James is up for sale now...
What are your thoughts on hunting?
and the crime-rate drops to 0 in rural areas
I can't do all this covid stuff. I just want to move to a small Christian town. I have a degree in health sciences and I am a nursing assistant only making 17$/hr. I want to go into nursing but I'm afraid they will mandate the vaccine for healthcare workers. Taking the vaccine is not an option. I feel like if they mandate it my whole career path will be wasted. I want to move but I have next to no life skills... but I do have about 25k saved up, which will be used for nursing school and rent... I'm so conflicted
I saw you commented that you decided on Florida because it was closer to family, what do you think of people homesteading to Montana? I live in buttfuck nowhere Illinois rn, so I'm not unfamiliar with living in the country, but I think I would live Montana because of the mountains, forests, and climate.
take notes
NoLinkers absolutely btfo by based boomer
Thought you had more. I've got about 45
Man this is the dream. Problem is I’m 32 and have two very small children and a wife. I’m not sure how to break away from the city
29, in Ireland. About 5K in the bank on about 29k a year, no way am I ever getting to buy land xD
Check out youtuber mossy bottom
@@der0keks I've followed him for about a year now. he's excellent. very different circumstances but I do love what's he's doing.
Thank you Luke, very informative.