Basically, our parents and grandparents had suffered from Herbert Hoover and the crash of 1929 and then died in droves throughout the Great Depression and then 900,000 Americans (mostly civlians) died in World war II around the world. However, it is also true that 20 million people died just in Russia Alone fighting Hitler during world war II also but they mostly died of starvation and so did the Russian and Hitler's troops then.
Our parents and grandparents didn't let us forget all these deaths and the causes of all these deaths along the way too. So, in this sense we were very prepared for dealing with the kinds of problems in the world we have right now which could precipitate another Stock Market Crash and worldwide Great depression with millions or even billions dying of starvation mostly and bad water worldwide too.
However, I was born around 1950 and people my age are all between 70 and 80 years old now and I'm not sure how many people are listening to us tell people about what our parents and grandparents experienced from 1929 until Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945.
So, we might be in for another nightmare reminiscent of 1929 to 1945 once again because of the careless way rich people are dealing with everything right now.
So, some of us in California (especially the San Francisco Area) found "The Back to the Land Movement" which was to move out into the country, buy relatively inexpensive land and build our own homes so we might never have to have a mortgage. This is less feasible now simply because solar energy has become so affordable that people can more easily live off the grid so all property is much more expensive (relative to earning power of the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s compared to now.
For example, even where I live on the California coast I remember houses costing 50,000 to 80,000 here in the 1980s some places.
However, these same houses now would likely go for around 750,000 dollars to 1 1/2 million dollars today.
How are young couples ever going to buy their first homes?
This is one of the biggest problems I see today here in the U.S.
In 1980 I myself bought land off the grid for only 8000 dollars with a spring on the land and a perfect view of Mt. Shasta from my mostly 2 1/2 acres of Beautiful Port Orford Cedars and pine and Fir and Oak trees as well as manzinita.
However, it is true it didn't have electricity or phones but it did have a septic tank already installed when we bought it with a toilet shed built over the Septic Tank then. But, this also meant that when it snowed and froze there you couldn't use the toilet because it would freeze over and if you didn't take the water out of the toilet bowl it would break the porcelin when the ground froze.
And also, we could get 7 feet of snow so I built an A-Frame and isulated it with 8 inch fiberglass insulation to keep it warmer and built a wood burning stove with my father and then bought an antique wood burning oven for cooking on and baking in then too and we also bought Kerosene Aladdin Lamps for downstairs and in the loft above the ground floor had candle lanterns with light reflectors for reading at night in the bedroom upstairs too in the loft.
So, in this way we saved around 60,000 to 70,000 dollars in Rent from 1980 to 1985 by doing this and buying land because in 1980 we thought the U.S. Government was going to collapse and go bankrupt but luckily the nations the U.S. helped rebuild after World war II loaned us money to not have to go bankrupt as a nation then.
However, I never have regretted buying that land because we home schooled our older children there for 5 years time which was a completely amazing experience.
By God's Grace
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