Some day I want to start my whole plan of getting a hunk of
land and healing it while making a living.
Let me explain why I've picked rural Maine:
1. Taxes are near nothing in unorganized townships (about half of northern ME)
2. Towns with a pop. under 2000 (maybe 4000) aren't required to enforce MUBEC, even though the entire state is subject to it. Basically, no building code in an unorganized township.
3. Very lenient homeschooling laws.
4. Lenient
raw milk laws
5. Winter
6. Mountains, hills (yes, there are states with bigger mountains)
7. (Fairly) cheap land
8. I'm not sure about zoning in UTs
The problems:
1. It's rural- how does one market food where the nearest neighbor might be 2 miles away, the nearest farmer's market 3 hours away?
2. Internet can be expensive- I know about diversified income, but many of those options involve internet powered activities and satellite internet can be expensive and data is limited