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I have always been fascinated by a vision of a decent scale mother earth living, creating and maintaining an environment that fosters an unconstrained yet stable equilibrium with a large number of species contributing to a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship. Such a vision is only possible on a large countryside location acreage. Realistically, settling somewhere near the mountain slopes and wildlife with some privacy forested nature buffer and a potential for a small-medium scale permaculture and aquaculture appeared achievable as a first step.
Remote work options weren’t readily available back in 2012, so moving into the nature surrounded countryside (e.g. MT or WY) would have been unrealistic for an Engineer holding a 9-5 job in a city-based BigTech company.
Considering budget constraints and the fact that within King county (the most urbanized county in WA state) there are a lot of regulations on the type of construction and look, also all kinds of expensive CC&R’s, – determining the location for a proper piece of land turned out to be quite challenging. In other words, buying a multi-acre property there, essentially, would have become a scaled “golden cage” with a necessity to follow “high-end” design restrictions with an implicit sign up for a lifelong dependency on higher than median income streams in order to afford the associated permits, taxes, maintenance and CC&R fees, far from true self-reliance.
Some folks choose to build a “vacation house”, managing the entire process remotely. They would visit on the weekends or vacations and further consider retiring there. Well, this wasn’t an option, because delegation of the build process would be impossible for the type of construction I planned to do, neither did I want to wait (to live in full-time) until retirement. This got me focused on a strategy of building a primary residence on a raw land from scratch with a potential for allowed permaculture and aquaculture development, operating in self-reliance mode by the time I am ready to retire.
=> Requirements#3:
3.A Outside of King county, but commutable to Seattle WA
3.B Large property where permaculture and aquaculture development is allowed
3.C Self-reliance mode is possible
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