I like wide open spaces and I'd live in the forest with no-one around for miles if I had the means and a suitable plot. Land, or at least a small garden or ga

I like wide open spaces and I'd live in the forest with no-one around for miles if I had the means and a suitable plot. Land, or at least a small garden or garage (in order of decreasing usefulness), is incredibly useful for woodworking, mechanical tinkering, painting large objects, basically any sort of real world craft that's not 'micro'. My social life is less important than the ability for me to sit on that bit of land that's mine and do things that I want to do. The urban equivalent of that seems to be going to find a specialist to do whatever you want doing. Basically, urban living is capitalism embodied - you can get some fantastic things done, better than you could ever do yourself, but you're trading for it. And you have to take part in the economy too.