So when I repeatedly do videos, talking about how I recommend people to move to the country, save up lots of money, and buy a house basically in cash, okay? There are really two reasons for that, okay? Reason number one is the more superficial thing that most people know about, and that is it's cheaper. If you think about it, right, it's basically impossible to get a suburban house or an urban house now that's less than a quarter of a million dollars, okay? Or sometimes half a million dollars if it's in a nice, your area, okay? So that's a lot of money. You're gonna be paying that off for a long time. The lifestyle in a suburban or an urban area is much more expensive. You're gonna, you might be taking full 30 years to pay off that mortgage basically your entire life, okay? So it's great to move to the country, okay? It's great to get a cheap place to live, even if it's a fixer-upper, right? You know, but you can easily not get a fixer-upper, but it's easy to get a house in the country, even still today for less than a hundred thousand bucks. Prices have definitely gone up, but in the house in the country, let's be clear, it's not just a house. It's not a house in a suburban lot where you have to mow the grass twice a week, where you can't, you can't make too much noise, you can't have a workshop, you can't expand out, you can't have animals, can't grow anything, blah, blah, blah, because of the homeowners association. It's not like that. Country and the land, or land in the country is much more valuable because you can expand out, okay? So you're getting more for your money, and if you're living there your entire life, it's not, you don't have to worry about it being an investment. Will property in the city keep going up in price? Oh sure, great, and maybe your house will go up in price as well, but that doesn't mean anything to you when you're tethered to that land. Like your, your main dwelling is not an investment, right? That's like, that's like real estate finance 101, right? It's not an investment. Don't mortgage that thing, don't sell it out. Okay, but so that's the superficial reason that I recommend people to do that because as it is right now, it's gonna be easier to buy stuff in the country and your money is gonna go further. But reason number two is arguably more important, and that is it's this, okay? If you go to go to the country and you buy, in a lot of plots, actually a lot of places in the country, you can't even, they won't even sell you a lot divided less than five acres or so. Okay, so let's say you have five acres, right? If you compare that to a suburban household, what is that gonna be worth? Even if the price has gone up, what are you gonna be able to do on that in a hundred years? And yes, I'm thinking, I'm thinking in hundreds of years, kind of area, right? Because the goal is not for you to just have this property that you're gonna later sell when you're older, you're about to die. My goal is to have land that can be generational wealth so that when you have kids, right, they're not gonna have to worry about all the time. Oh my goodness, I'm gonna pay for this monthly payment and if I get this, I'm gonna have nowhere to crash and all this kind of stuff. If you have five acres, right? And you can put a tiny home on that, right? You can take care of your grandma, who needs a place to stay. You can take care of some cousin, you can build other houses on your land if you have enough room. And in fact, even if you have just a couple acres, that is easily, I mean, remember like suburban areas, right? People are squeezed onto like eighth of an acre lots or like quarter of an acre lots if they're lucky, right? So you have lots more room, like if you have land in a rural area, which firstly is gonna be pretty stable, like you don't know what any city is gonna look like in 30 years. Again, the property values on paper might be going up, but if you are trying to like make a bug out, you know, location or like survivalist, you know, long time living area in a suburbs, in the suburbs or something like that, that's kind of a lark, right? And really, you know, one, I'm all for like kind of survivalist stuff and like doomsday prepping, that's the thing, that's the word I'm looking for. But I don't like I don't like that term because really what we call doomsday prepping, that's what every single human in the world did, or at least, you know, in post-agricultural societies, all the time, right? A hundred years ago, everyone had barns where they had lots of storage for grains and stuff like that and they would, they would, they would can as much as they could and all this kind of stuff, that was just normal, okay? So I don't, I don't like the term doomsday prepper because it's really, that's just like the term for a normal human. It's we who are the weird ones who like have to go to the grocery store every week to buy something anyway, that's just the tangent. Either way, the real purpose of owning land, and this is why it's so important to have it in the country, is to have a kind of stability that's going to last for decades, right? You're gonna be able to use it, your kids are gonna be able to use it, their kids are gonna be able to use it, and once you have some land, especially if it's very rural, you can look about, you know, as you accumulate more wealth because you're not, you know, paying off monthly payments all the time, you can start looking at acquiring more, okay? Then think about investment properties, I can do something with that. So that's what I recommend to people, and you know, this of course is exactly what I've done in my life, obviously, because when I, I want to say around 2015, maybe, no, maybe closer to 2017, I'm not quite sure, but there was a point in my life, it was when I lived in Arizona, where I was basically at rock bottom financially, like I got to a point where I basically had zero dollars, or I had like, you know, some money in my checking account, but I had, it was equal to the liabilities I had, I was like, oh shoot, man, like I'm totally, like I got this like $2,000, but like I, oh, I got to pay it, you know, I got to pay my like landlord or whatever, like I was without a job at that point, I was like totally screwed, like I was totally screwed, and that is one of the, you know, whenever life gives you lemons, right? That was probably, I'm so glad that that happened, I'm not like telling everyone what even is going on, but I will just say, struggles in your life are fantastic, because they encourage you to take the risks you know you should have taken anyway, right? And so at that point in my life, I'd always been thinking about, oh, you know, maybe I'll move to the country someday, I'll save up and I'll blah, blah, blah, but because like basically, I was at this period in my life where I lost what I thought I had, right? Then I was like, well, shoot, I got to actually do this, I got to actually put my money where my mouth is, it's a fact, I don't have any money, but anyway, what I was saying is, you know, just the couple years passed in, I was just, I never made more than like 40,000 a year or something like that, you know, I was not, I was working as a grad student and then like, well, I don't know, you guys know some of my job history, I'm not going to divulge it, but it's pretty, you know, it was odd jobs, but I was putting away maybe 20,000 a year into savings and that was enough, that was enough to get a rural place and I was lucky to just get it, I would be paying more if I were paying after inflation now, but it's not that much more, it would be like an extra year or two saving up, right? Which isn't in the long, in the grand scheme of things, yeah, like although I'm not a big fan of like mortgages and stuff like that, if don't be afraid of doing one of those, if you plan on paying it off pretty quick, like if you just need, well, I don't know, some banks want to give you mortgages that are like less than 20,000 or something like that, but I don't know, there are ways of working that out. Honestly, when it, if it's just a couple thousand bucks you can borrow from friends, honest, now I'm just rambling, I'm literally just rambling. So yeah, that's my point. So the goal is not just to have a land, have land and not make a monthly payment. The goal is to have something that you are going to have for the rest of your life and it's going to be basically how you, how you make it, like you're not going to have to worry about how the city's going to change, how the, what the homeowners association is going to do, any of that kind of crap, you are kind of your own boat and you don't have to worry about it, okay? That is the actual goal, stability, right? So real stability that's going to last potentially centuries, right? If you do things right, I don't know, who knows, who knows what the next centuries will hold, but you've got to think in centuries, right?