and I might be able to get a grant, which could take most of the cost out of the land purchase on its own

Do it. Buy now while the prices are still comparatively low.

got my own house near an amish area. affordable and I get my food from nearby farms

Me too!

Yeah, I want to have a home that's worth relatively little in terms of resale, on a plot which could be repurposed after sale

that way the property taxes stay low

the corporate intrigue stays low

I'm about 40 miles from the nearest Amish community where I live in Ohio, and I buy all my poultry, eggs and dairy from the Amish. I also sources all the lumber and custom carpentryfor my reno from them as well

*sourced....typo

I think the determining factor will be to see if OK can finally pass constitutional carry

there are plenty of places you can do that
it boils down to having an income

most of the inexpensive places have poor employment prospects

That's the sortsightedness of youth. One must "find employment" not "make it."

yeah, I get my income basically remotely either way

that works

I'm absolutely blessed with opportunity

do yourself a favor and look up the fiber routes in whatever state you want to relocate to

get something on network

I work for a fully decentralized network based corporation. It doesn't matter where I live, I'm technically employed in McLean, VA but I only go there a few times a year.

That's the idea

you'd be surprised how much fiber the red states have put in the ground

especially in some of these places, the regulations are not as onerous as they are in the places Comcast makes a killing

I have a high speed fiber-line coming right into my house.

Yeah, the U.S. is actually recovering from about five years of trending toward Canadian prices

which are insane

max I can get here in PA is 100mb bought, 60 mb actual service

Well, I'm willing to set up masts and fixed radio

you can get >1Gb full duplex on the good ones these days

in Tulsa the zoning laws do place some restrictions on masts though

and that is time warner only due to how rural pa areas are

I love Radio. I started WAAAY back in the early 90's (When dinosaurs still roamed the Earth) with a Ham Radio license and I've been a radio-enthusiast ever since.

Yeah, it has many benefits

when the link is up, you can get less latency over radio than over fiber

if you have some sort of local realtime application.

I was doing packet radio back when it was still a new thing, and kept up with the developments in radio data transmission ever since.

I think it'd be interesting, to revamp the curriculum in some of the U.S. public schools.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jun/27/are-you-a-xennial-take-the-quiz

if primary and secondary schools focused on reading, writing, and thinking

I figure they could produce better citizens

I actually wonder why more kids don't just test out of it

Oh, you mean "English" and "Critical Thinking and Reasoning?" Yeah, blame Jimmy Carter for that one....

because it consumes them