Reply #37: You would be suprised what you can do on 2.5 acres

[MadHound]

Wind turbines only take up a quarter acre. A nice size truck garden only needs an acre. You live on a hillside, terrace, terrace, terrace. With a little acreage you aren't limited by the size, but buy your imagination.

And if you want someplace cheaper to live here in the US, c'mon out here to Mid Mo. My house and acreage only cost $140,000, and the repairs and remodeling we've done has cost us less than $10,000.
You could put $120,000 down on a nice place and have a tidy sum to live off of.

Costa Rica? Nice place to visit, but I really like where I'm at. Four distinct season, a beautiful natural area, with little noise. And besides, after corporate America gets done with Central America and CAFTA, Costa Rica could very well be the same kind of toxic wasteland that the Tex-Mex border is.