Lower standards
Buy shitty small rural house built nearly 200 years ago
Spend any and all free time & money learning the skills & buying the tools to strip it down and rebuild it. All of it is online. Do it quietly and you won't have to pull permits. Hold yourself to a higher standard than what a permit will allow and you'll be fine.
Continue to invest in yourself and your skills. You will become a rich person if you do this, if not in money, then knowledge. The earlier you can do this, the more value will compound off of your skillset.

It's not fun but it's possible for myself, born 98. Got my little slice and the sunsets and stars are sure damn pretty out in the boonies. Gotta deal with the rednecks & general small mindedness though.

[–] nouben@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If your professionnal situation lets you do this, go for it. Problem is, for a lot of people including myself, jobs are in the city. Moreover, here in France, by living in the countryside, you get an additionnal bonus of :

no public transit
no hospital
no doctor
no school
no post office
no bakery (the worst)

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[–] NotSoCoolWhip@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Not for everybody. If you're clever enough you can work around every item you listed though.

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