is it possible to buy farm land anymore?

[patandchickens]

A lot of it depends what career you and/or any eventual spouse go into. If it's something like "plumber" that's very portable, you can live pretty much anywhere you choose, but if it is something like "computer programmer" or "fashion magazine editor" your choice is likely to be very much more limited.

Also remember that places with cheap land also generally have low salaries, relatively few jobs, and more-expensive groceries/gas/clothes/etc (and you'll use much more gas than if you lived in a densely populated area!). So a place with apparently dead-cheap land may actually be harder to afford to live in than somewhere with more-expensive land but where you can get a decent-paying job pretty easily. Which gets back to how you, and/or spouse, are making a living.

Just food for thought

,

Pat

 

[jessupfamily]

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Agree totally!! Not that I'm biased or anything.

Also you can keep your eyes opened for forclosed properties when you are ready. If it weren't so far from DHs parents we would have had 11 acres with a fairly new doublewide, but he thought it was extremely far out in the country. So we agreed on 1 1/2 acres a little ways out of town. Of course if we thought we'd have chickens then...

Double Agree!!!!

We lived there a couple of different times and went back "home" to be by family. Now were headin' back to land that you described! (We are still only a couple of hours from family though!) We've searched a lot and Kentucky/Tennessee is the place to buy inexpensive, usable land and most will never be overly developed because of very established communities (Mennonite, Amish, plain type communities...) And not many restrictions, if any at all!
Do travel a bit though. It helps put things in perspective.
Blessings,
Amy J.

 

[jmatkovi]

swampduck is right about MI. I grew up there and the economy is not doing too good right now. You definatly can get cheap land but you also have to look at the job market. All depends on were you are planing on working when it comes to buying land in MI.

I currently am living in CT. My husband is in the Navy and stationed in Groton. We just bought a house near Norwich for a good price. It is out in farm country and is three acres. The weather in CT is not all that different from where I grew up in MI if you stay away form the cost. I still plan on going back to MI when my man retires from the Navy. I love it there.