Cheapest nice rural place to live in the US ?

[Thremp]

Rural texas from what I've heard.

Housing prices per square foot at something like... ~40 on the high end?

Its gross.

[kevin017]

im from northern va, plan on moving down to nc in a few years.

VA, WV, and NC are all great choices for this if you look around. lots of variety of terrain, distance to cities, etc, and 200k would be plenty.

my gf's family did what you wanna do, in sw va, i think it was 100k (might've dished out 50k more for more surrounding land) for a nice sized house, 2 cabins, and 10 acres, bordering a stream/river. 30 minutes from their real house in roanoke. pretty sweet setup.

[TomCollins]

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I'd like to buy a house in the country somewhere in the US with nice weather. Where's the cheapest place I can do that?

I currently live in CA and I think the whole state is too expensive. I'm also thinking places like Montana are too cold for too much of the year.

I've heard that something like North Carolina or West Virginia might be good possibilities (?) Ideally I could buy a tiny cabin/house and a bit of land for $200k or less.

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Rural Texas would be pretty nice, you can probably get something in the Hill Country in that price range, depending how far out in the boonies you go.

[xx44]

Forget the US. For 200k you can probably buy Somalia.

[cbloom]

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Arkansas in the Ozark Mountains.
Southern enough to get warm weather, but you still get the four seasons.
Dirt cheap.
Also geographically, the most stable part of the entire country.

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Oh yeah, I've always heard Arkansas is nice.

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I'm from the mountains of northern Georgia. Very beautiful, very temperate, and very cheap.


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That sounds good too.

I don't know that part of the country well, I'm a west coaster mainly, but to me that whole Arkansas-Georgia-Carolina mountain range is pretty similar, am I wrong? Also, I'm not a big fan of humidity or Republicans but I plan to just grow some food and do a lot of hiking, biking, and riding.

Nice outdoor/nature is a big big plus, mountains, rivers, etc.

[Five-Star]

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Move to rural Minnesota.

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you forgot about the "with nice weather" part

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qft

[Soul Daddy]

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Move to rural Minnesota.

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Worst advice ever.

[SoloAJ]

Rural Iowa is not nice weather in the winter. It gets pretty bad.

[Lonhro]

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Forget the US. For 200k you can probably buy Somalia.

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Do you ever question why you have those little blips under your name?

[CCass]

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Only hicks, racists, and hillbillies live in rural areas.

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And this is bad because?