Nice!! I can't see any life/homes from my place either. One cabin is on foot only or by horse. The other I can drive too till it gets snowed in till spring. Walking isn't crowded so and isolation from everything is the only way for me. The cell doesn't work unless I crawl up to the highest points.

Sounds like you have a great place and is priceless.

Nice!! I can't see any life/homes from my place either. One cabin is on foot only or by horse. The other I can drive too till it gets snowed in till spring. Walking isn't crowded so and isolation from everything is the only way for me. The cell doesn't work unless I crawl up to the highest points.

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Wouldn't trade either of my cabins for their weight in gold. Solitude holds value to me over convenience any day. The only sounds I heard all day was snow falling, and my idiot dog ruining the silence chasing a weasel around the woodshed for 20 minutes lol

Been insane here for several years, put a house on the market for 250k and people offer you 270k! I don't know how many ive seen sell for 20 grand more than the owner's were asking. Plus new developments going up everywhere fast as they can go, cookie cutter house's 10 ft. from one another, most already sold by the time they have them framed in!

Truck price's have been silly for awhile.

That may have been your life but you can't make that judgement on other people. A lot of things can happen to change plans and alter the course of your life. That's a very shallow view based on your very narrow experience. Just for two examples, 2008 changed the course of a lot of people's financial trajectory. COVID put a lot of small businesses out of business. Everyone has a story and not very many of them match the scenario you put forth.

Very shallow. There aren't enough union jobs for everyone to have one. Union jobs are in the cities. Rural areas don't have union jobs but there are workers needed in every non-union workplace. And no matter how much a working person saves it won't be enough when it's time to retire. It's easy to look down on ppl and say "they should have"...
Government dependents are treated better than retired elderly who worked all their life.

Ranches sell for millions here all the time. The smaller the acres the more the money. 8 figures are nothing for places less than 200 acres.

https://www.clearwaterproperties.com/ >>>> this real estate outfit has >15,000 listings.

I made an offer on a house 6 years ago for 65k it was 5k under asking just because it had a nice garage with an oil change pit. Someone offered asking and I lost out.

This summer same house with just a metal roof added 255k. Sad part is that's only a little above the rate most houses prices went up

You must have a crystal ball and know that nothing unforseen is going to happen when you've been retired for 10 or 20 years.

A million dollars don't buy what it used to, not even close.

I guess you never have seen how little you need to put back each week and Invest it to end up with a million dollars in retirement. Yes it's age dependent on how early you start but very easy for everyone to do. But few are willing to do it. they younger you start the small amount it takes each week.

Funny you think it a larger income that's required. Yes that helps but it much more a mind set and life style choice that will get you there. If it was income than more doctors would retire millionaires with their larger income than school teachers. Yet more school teachers retire millionaires than doctors with their much lower income.

Nope but it's much nicer to have than 100k now isn't it.

You should read the book, "The Millionaire Next Door."

You obviously do not understand the economics of people who bought small farms/acreages/lakeshore homes for less than $100,000 when they were young, and they worked hard making a decent living but now they are cash poor and land rich. It's not that they didn't save, it's that their savings is being eaten up by huge property tax bills and extreme inflation/cost of living. Your attitude is why so many people hate the entitled union members who make way more money than the average person but think they are entitled to tell everyone else how to spend their money. Not everyone makes union wages, some people spend their lives just getting by and having a high quality of life as they go along rather than working overtime to hoard a lot of money that they might just die with. Shallow thinking indeed.

To go through your working life without preparing for possible job losses, market downturns, natural disasters etc is in and of itself short sighted tonsay the least. I dont wish any of those things on anyone, but for goodness sakes...they happen. Our schools do a poor job of providing financial education. But dont worry, Visa and Mastercard will fill in the blanks...

This is kind of oof topic but does have a lot to do with how our lives turn out. There really isn't anything that anyone can't go get or do in life if they put their mind to it. I mean nothing but it takes sacrifice, hard work, mindset, have to move leave the area you are from etc., determination, persistent and you will get where you want too in life.

To many people settle for the easy way and are just content with where their life and work and never go the extra mile and climb every hill to get to what they want. They just come content and have no goal, plan to go get it whatever it costs to do so.