I've almost sold this place 3 times. The first couple of times the buyer couldn't come thru. The last time, a guy I know talked me out of it. I was gonna sell & just hit the road. I may still do it. I don't know. I'm crazy. Haha
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The same thing is happening here. I'm seeing little houses on 1 acre going for unbelievable prices, now. And this is out in the sticks. Closest little town is 15 miles.
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With population growth expanding like it is, and, they aint makin' no more land, as the saying goes, prices are only gonna go up. Jeezus, there are millions of people homeless now in the USA. Supposedly the greatest country & all that. It's fucked up.
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(1) On top of that, even among those living in homes in the States, there are many who live in "food deserts," aren't they? I've seen one or two documentaries on the topic. Grocery shops and restaurants can't afford to go on running their business in poorer districts, (...)
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(2) and the only such outlets available there are fast food restaurants and convenience stores, where the only food available is oily, sugar-rich, unhealthy food items high in calorie but low in nutrition.
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I've heard about those "food deserts". I think they're mostly in the inner cities. High crime areas. Very high risk. Business owners don't wanna deal with it.
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The link below leads you to the very well-made 45-minute documentary on the food desert in Virginia, USA. I saw it a couple of months ago.
youtube.com/watch?v=jicYbi
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The program is really instructive, depicting how serious the problem is and how some people doing their valuable efforts to rescue those food desert victims.
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It's Richmond, Virginia. That's the state capital. It's a major city. There's no grocery stores. The people rob them blind. They can't afford to open stores in some of these high crime areas.