Ask HN: SWE who started an organic farm in Europe, where did you go?
British &quot;Ben Fogle New Lives in the Wild&quot; and Dutch &quot;Floortje naar het einde van de wereld&quot; are over 100 documentairies on this theme. A few of them where programmers who quit their jobs and started a small homestead farm or go to the wilderness and hunt. The majority are young families going for sustainable living.
Another large group buys rural houses, fixes them up and rents them out as B&amp;B rooms. They also have their own documentairies.
The latest group are youtubers who document their move into the country.
The lessons from these examples are that almost no one could earn a living from the farming. They all had problems with local laws. They all have unfixable infrastructure problems, especially for remote working c.q. programming jobs.
Many had to break off when they became sick or went bankrupt. Its is very hard, so I started a business to help make the transition.<p>I am trying to make a business combining the two extremes. I sell rural or remote wilderness land with a high-tech solar off grid tiny house with very good internet for around $50.000. At any moment I have around 10 suitable plots of land on offer. The best are in nature reserves, the largest 100 acres. 
It takes on average 24 months or more to find land, get permits, build the road, water, electricity and internet infrastructure and move the mobile tiny house onto the land. Spain, Portugal and Arizona mostly.<p>This is for programmers and other remote workers, retirees or people who can&#x27;t afford a house in the city.
Since Covid there has been an large increase in people moving to remote rural locations. Most of them homestead, some take on the #vanlife.<p>A new trend will be permanent living in a mobile house, RV, bus, truck while working remotely. This only becomes affordable with Starlink and an electrical truck completely plated with solar panels. Water is purified onboard.<p>I expect the trend of going rural or mobile to increase even more in the next 10 years. I&#x27;m looking for cofounders to accommodate this increase in my business niche.<p>Asimov and Larry Niven wrote some science fiction stories before 1970 on this theme. When Star Trek transporters become possible, you could go live remotely on or inside a mountain or another planet.<p>Chris Stewart&#x27;s &quot;Driving Over Lemons&quot; is a nice book describing the move into the country.