A most interesting thread.
A couple of questions NMW: do you get water rights with a land purchase? If so is there any limitation on volume extracted?
You toss $500,000 around like I have that saved in coffee cans buried in my yard.
Define, "occasionally vacate"?!
Hearing protection from the area 51 military test flights.@New Mexico Will
Why is that cow wearing headphones?
Did you settle on a piece of land?You also need to find an unincorporated area that will allow you to build without city utilities. They are getting harder to find. I did a lot of research about this when I was looking for a home base property for an RV and Texas or New Mexico seemed to be the front runners. Nevada as well. Arizona somewhat but not as much as the others. Check Nye County Nevada. Near Pahrump. And no tornado means no Oklahoma, Kansas or Arkansas. And western Missouri. Everywhere you go in the country has SOMETHING. Earthquakes and wildfires out west, tornado alley in the midwest, the hurricanes in the east and the southeast coast, the humidity in the North and South Carolina areas..... Every time I think about finding Utopia I realize that winters in Ohio are, on average, not that bad. We get one nasty blast of cold and snow that lasts 7-10 days and then it's back to mid 20s and tolerable amounts of snow. But for solar power, you likely want the southwest to have sunshine all year. Solar where I am, for example, would be fine from May through September, and then in October we start seeing progressively less sun, until February when we wonder if we will ever see the sun again. Until April when it stats being sunny every day. That sunlight map Svetz posted should be your guiding light. (See what I did there?)
If you are interested in selling an acre, come to me please.I can see the Rio Grande from my house![]()
Do like alot of us and just RV. Not worth buying land with zoning out of control anyway. They can literally turn on a dime and screwed.
AZ and NM? Is there water on those properties? I have a little place in the Ozarks. Yea we get snow.. once in awhile and yes it does storm here, but I have a nice cold spring feeding water to my Cabin. In my opinion, way more important than electricity. Shelter, Water, Food and then fun with the sun.
I totally understand the humidity, tick's and chiggers comment.. thank god for rynoskinz.Depends on the area you are looking at and the cost to drill a well in that area. Lots of people decide to do their own rainwater harvesting and or water haul. Some of the POA's offer a shared well on the ranches... the lot I own is this way - 42 acres and I pay $160 yearly for water and road maintenance (will be moving there permanently this year I hope).
I lived in MO for 8 years and the Ozarks area was nice - but I can do without the chiggers, ticks etc -- and forget about the humidity - absolutely off the charts from June-Sept... worse than coastal NC where I live now.
Alaska!\ I would love to never see people again!! The problem there is that there is no place to do that in a part of the country I would want to live in. At my age, I gave up on finding Utopia.