Deciding to establish an off-the-grid homestead is an enormous decision that is laden with hurdles and obstacles. How will you pay for it? What are your plans for power? What are your plans for food and will you homeschool your kids?
Before you make any of these decisions, though, you should consider the decision of where you will live.
This decision doesn't just cover which beautiful landscape you want to wake up to every morning. What should play a bigger role in this decision should be whether or not your local laws will allow you to freely make decisions on how to run your own homestead.
As with all other areas in our country, individual states will make homesteading much easier or much more difficult, depending on the laws that state has elected to pass.
So how can you make this decision? Start with the information on the next page.
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Tim Tibbles take a look.
Go Arizona!!
I’d like to read the whole study. Is there a link?
My homestead is in #35 but my county is super free.
Ed Davis Steven Horter Christine Lee
Andrew Johnson
Yes. There is a link at the end of the article.
My state (Michigan) is just shy of the halfway mark.
Idaho is really #1 if you take out the few big city’s, Just buy some land & move on, ask no one & put up anything you want , go farm / logging exempt , 35$ fee for any size farm building, live in it if you want. The banks are the problem here. Do not deal with “Panhandle Heath ” for anything .
Live free or die
Thank you.
No way Ky is that low.
California’s population grew from 36 million in 2012 to 38 million in 2016, which makes the net migration rate +5.6%, not -4.9%.
WA needs to be further down on the list, it won’t be long before we’re just an extension of CA.
Some off that list is wrong
I’m a bit confused with the list. Are they in order by good to bad or bad to good? I only ask because my husband and I are searching for land in Missouri to purchase within the next year and this information would be helpful to us
Interested in the article, but can’t get rid of the pop up “survival guide offer”!