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Buying a Modern Day Urban Homestead – A Checklist for Practical Preppers
If you’re like most preppers, you’ve probably daydreamed about moving out to the country, buying up a huge chunk of land and making a go of it on your own self-reliant homestead. Private hunting grounds, as much gardening as your back can handle and if the S ever really does hit the fan, you’ll be completely fine riding out life just like our ancestors did so many years ago.
It’s a great dream to have … but let’s be honest; a lot of us will never achieve that goal whether because of financial or logistical reasons. A lot of us have family that would hate that kind of lifestyle and some of us just simply wouldn’t be content being hermit farmers out in the middle of nowhere. That’s ok. Having rural property is not some kind of prerequisite to being a prepper despite what many influential people in the preparedness community might say.
What we SHOULD be taking away from the whole “homesteading dream” however is the basic principles of homesteading itself… not the exact picture that people keep painting of it. Despite popular belief you really can create your own modern homestead anywhere, whether that’s in suburbia, out in the boonies or even (depending on your needs) in a big city. It’s all about what “homesteading” really means to YOU, not what everyone else thinks it means. If homesteading means raising livestock, shooting rifles in your backyard and designing large-scale permaculture landscapes, then yeah, you’re probably going to need some rural land. If these things aren’t realistically in your future though, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to go for that rural location unless that’s what you really want.
Rural locations have just as many inconveniences that urban locations do, they’re just different. What someone else might think is a deal-breaker for picking a homestead might not be a big deal to you. What we should be doing as preppers is actually doing a lot more preparing when it comes time to decide where to lay down roots so that you can decide on a property that will actually work for YOU and YOUR lifestyle.
As someone who is living as frugally as possible to save money to buy said modern homestead, here are some things we are keeping in mind when it comes time for us to start looking at properties. Your list may be different…it SHOULD be different. The fact of the matter is that before making any sort of major purchase like this, it’s important that you do actually make a list so that you’re getting as much of what you want as possible and avoiding the things you don’t.
