Alice Fast

Coydon Wallham wrote:Yuri, you made the comparison here with the “Wild West“ in the US- are there indigenous groups in this area that are still distinct from the Russian government?

Not everything as it seems here...will not say more.

But to answer your question: no. There are other problems..

Yury Smirnov wrote:

Alice Fast wrote:Curious, how much do they charge for a hectare (2 acres) in these communities now?
I heard land prices were high in the Southern Russia lately, but right now real estate market is dead, so prices will be coming down.

The prices are different in different communities depending on the level of development and location.
If we are talking about Zdravoye (one of the most developed ecovillages in the South of Russia) the price for 2.5 acres (1 hectare) will be about 1 million Rubles (17000 USD).

Oh, I see, that's way too expensive in Zdravoye, more than I pay per acre in the US, for unrestricted land.
I  know there's a lot of much cheaper land all over Russia and can even get some free land through selsovet (I have citizenship), just not in Krasnodar Krai, everyone wants to move to Krasnodar. Krasnodar is too popular these days...

Do you know if there're still places with old growth cedars or did they cut all of them?

If you want to start narrowing down your search by no gubimint bureacurants messing around: much of the South (Southeast), West Virginia, Missouri, Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, even some of rural New England (just not MA or CT) are the places, such as unorganized townships in Maine or parts of NH and Vermont.

In rural parts of these locales there're either no building codes or no one to enforce them.
No well regulations in many of these states either and in some places it's even easy to get rural water service in remote locations such as in Kentucky. Only septic regulations are enforced, but in Missouri you can just build a lagoon, and you only need septic for black water in some of these states and can direct graywater the way you please.

Dell Knapp wrote:I have 22 organic acres in SW Wis . Hills & Valleys in a protected little oasis that is open to buy in or rent by the month, etc ! It is probably one of the safest areas you will find ! There is a lot of hype around Green Bank & from what I have heard from folks that have lived there, ......it is not cracked up to be what we here ! Looking to have several people here eventually ! Hope this helps someone !  Dell

Not sure what you mean about Green Bank not cracked to be...Green Bank  - you can't get cell service anywhere around there, not to mention in Northeastern WV mountains cell service is very hard to come by in general, the ridges are a lot taller than anything in WI and there's no signal over entire large areas. But there will be no signal in Green Bank, while they can bring it elsewhere by installing more towers. Green Bank is a VERY nice area to be in, nature-wise, National Forests around, not that many ticks or tick disease compared to states West and North of it, and not that hot of a summer. And no tornados unlike in states West of it.