Some ideas might be taken from what happened in Santa Fe New Mexico. Their art boom started in the 1910s, real estate went high in the 1960s, climbed even high

Some ideas might be taken from what happened in Santa Fe New Mexico. Their art boom started in the 1910s, real estate went high in the 1960s, climbed even higher through the 1990s. My understanding/recollection is the living vital artists bought cheap mobile homes with propane tanks and water cisterns and stuck the homes on incredibly cheap land scattered across Northern New Mexico. Walled the exteriors with adobe when they had the chance and built adobe additions later on. They then went deep into historical New Mexico culture(s) for inspiration. For example, their life blended organically with their art, as inspired by the Puebloans who, although they produced objects of great beauty, had no word for “art” in their languages. The PR in the 1990s was that there were more artists living between Santa Fe and Taos than were in Paris at the time. Santa Fe became a leading arts market (still is), and de facto artists retirement village, where aging artists redirected their efforts on developing a lifestyle, rather than product. Did a fine job at it, too. Might be worth contacting those elders still living in New Mexico to pick their brains about what worked and what didn’t. There was probably a good reason the 1960s SF hippies started their 1970s communes in Taos, etc. Pro tip: if you follow that trajectory, skip the drugs...they are most likely a dead end in many senses.