I’m very smart.
Idk man, I’m actually surprised how cheap farmland is in the US. Of course nobody sells anything smaller than 100 acres but what the heck a lot of weirdos would like to have a piece of land to plant trees and call “theirs” (I mean, weirdos like me)
turns out, living with no infrastructure or services (like electricity, communications, or paved roads) blows. even freaks like me who enjoy subsistence agriculture and crunchy living have our limits.
a small plot of land zoned for a homesite within a 30 minute drive of a store and an hour of a hospital is considerably more expensive than the average “per acre” value of prime ag land of massive lots in the unincorporated community of West Jerkwater, Iowa.
is it cheaper than an apartment in NYC? sure. but the price point of a homestead in the US is by no means “cheap” globally, especially because other (normal) countries have programs to create paths to land in small farming communities.
we just let those communities collapse into diseases of despair as large holders swallow up small farms falling into bankruptcy and suicide.
Owning a piece of forest is way cooler flex than tungsten cubes or even fucking Teslas, but idk, I don’t pay for jpgs
Farmland is cheap because modern farming capital is insanely expensive (machinery, chemicals, transpo and storage). Less infrastructure out in the boonies also keeps the price low. I am a city slicker myself so don’t take my word for it, but the profit margins for small farmers have been shrinking and shrinking for decades so only giant ag corpos can compete. That’s not to mention the bullshit that large ag companies put onto small farmers to squeeze any small profit they have out of them. I’m talking John Deere prevent workers from repairing their tractors or Monsanto copyrighting seeds genetic code then suing for profits when their seeds naturally spread to small farms.
