Suggestions for Cold & dirt cheap towns to live in. Hillbillies ok. We like snow

[ketchikanite]

Originally Posted by ejisme

If homesteading and living off the land is your goal then all of Montana will be difficult to do. You're smart to look to warmer areas with longer growing periods and less need to heat and protect your home from the long winter cold.

Western Oklahoma, near the Texas boarder, might work for you. There are some reservoirs near Altus, OK. That could be your base town for major shopping and medical needs, but live in a smaller town some miles away. You'll still get some snow each year, but nothing as significant as where you are in CA or Montana. You'd need irrigation water for your crops, but your well can probably provide enough. You can also do a rain catchment system to hold rain water for other uses. Maybe you can setup wind and solar to provide the majority of your power too.

Oklahoma sucks! Too hot and humid in the summer. Not really a place where someone goes to live off of the grid in the wilderness.

[s97batess]

Essex area?

[ejisme]

Originally Posted by ketchikanite

Oklahoma sucks! Too hot and humid in the summer. Not really a place where someone goes to live off of the grid in the wilderness.

Agree, but western Oklahoma isn't as extreme as the eastern 3/4 of the state. It would be much easier to "homestead" there than in Montana. Plus, op said they were looking to Kansas now, so OK would be similar, and I'm more familiar with the area than Kansas.

[edshaw4947927]

If I were to move to Montana, I'd get up to speed on greenhouse farming.
It is actually amazing what people are doing. Of course, takes something
to get started.

[RogueMom]

I lived in Montana for a couple of years.

"Dirt Cheap" isn't happening.

If it's "dirt cheap", something is wrong, or there are absolutely no jobs to be had anywhere around.

[wilberry]

there is no dirt cheap left except ....

[wilberry]

Sterling , CO