So sorry if you thought this post was about the title. It's more a question, and how to achieve such a thing.
I grew up on about over an acre of land. We had an orchard in the back of our yard, apples mostly. I yearn for the days of my youth. I make a good living, by most standards, I'm above average. So why can I not buy a house like in my youth? The divide seems so very large. By most measures I was in poverty in my youth. Yet I cannot even afford that lifestyle. Why is that? Why is housing so damn expensive?
Location location location
Land around me is about $2500 an acre.
Where there is the will there is a way.
Not all acres are created equal - I can buy land within 1/2-hour of me for around $1000 an acre - dry plot of land, no access roads, no utilities nearby and no mineral or water rights - you can't even legally pond the rainwater on your property because you don't have the water rights. If you can buy productive farmland with water rights for $2500 an acre, please let me know where so I can buy some before Bill Gates snatches it up.
Ozarks
So I do wonder about that, A LOT! Was my Father just lucky? Was it all just right time right place? So where there is a will there is a way.. Am I just weaker then? Was my Dad just stronger and persevered? Is the answer that I just need to move so damn far away from anyone else that I can actually afford it!?
Seen some.e market gardeners that are still finding land for 5-100 an acre. Most do not look online they find someone who has land they don't t want and don't take care of.
So full disclosure here. I make about $120k a year. Getting land that I would take care of?! I would jump at the opportunity. Maybe I need to look harder.. I'm not some vigilant person scraping by. Am I just being lazy?! Certainly possible, can't deny that.
If its something you really want it can happen. Have to reasearch and research some more. None of these deals happen overnight.
Gotta figure out something fren.
Luck, grit, determination....whichever works out first.
Life is full of choices.