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Terrible idea. But it doesn't have to be all or nothing, which is something I feel often gets left out. You have loads of people dismiss the idea entirely because surviving on your own is going to be awful. Sure, having to grow EVERYTHING you eat is pretty difficult and you have no safety net. But there is a middle ground between completely abandoning society and living in the middle of a modern city.
Perhaps I would be happy in my cabin out in the country side, growing some herbs and higher value crops. But still work 1 day a week to buy all the potatoes, oats and firewood that I need. Along with having some money for infrequent purchases of tools and materials. Problem with that in the UK is that while land I would like to do it on exists and I could afford to build the cabin and everything, it would be illegal for me to live there. Its possible to get away with it for a while, people do. But people have also had their land taken from them by the local government when caught.
You can't live on your own farmland ๐คฏ
Correct, you need planing permission to live there and if the land has that it will cost a lot more than I can afford.
I would be allowed to buy it and put the cabin there, up to a certain size anyway. I could even sleep in it a few times. But living there is illegal. You can only stay overnight 28 times a year.