It all started December 2012 with a dream I didn’t write down here until 2015.

Back then I wanted to buy an island off the coast of Brazil that was 1000+ acres and worth about $4 million. I realized after a while that it would be unlikely I’d have that kind of money anytime soon or enough friends with $40k plus to invest to secure such an island to get this acquisition done in my life time. I also had a nagging worry that should I even acquire the island, there wasn’t much to prevent any sovereign nation from treating the island as a training playground with their respective SOF.

So I changed my mind and set my heart on the same idea but on a more local scale. That is, I wish to buy land about 2-3 hrs drive from my parents in the Western part of my state, where I can get 200-1,000 acres for around $700,000 or under or less depending on where I look. I’ve got a VA loan that can go up to that amount or thereabouts, and some of these plots of land come with houses prebuilt.

Basically, I wish to buy a lot of land and build a neighborhood around my house, so that I have a small neighborhood of not crazy. I’ve given up on making a global or even regional impact because I think I have a real chance of making a local one, starting with myself and my own family.

Were I to put this in scale, I give you this picture that Wrath of Gnon was kind enough to post:

That above is about 236 acres. I don’t need 6,000 people or all 236 acres. But I will say I can find 300 acres in the Western part of my state for about $300,000, sometimes including a house.

If I can, I’d like to incorporate my own city with my own police force, court, city hall, etc, and staff them with fellow non-crazy people. And there’d be no-modernist buildings at all.

Wald