I'm not an expert in this area, but I watched a video by a guy who built a cabin in Michigan, talking about how to buy land for like $5K an acre. I just google

I'm not an expert in this area, but I watched a video by a guy who built a cabin in Michigan, talking about how to buy land for like $5K an acre. I just googled and this seems like a real thing, i.e. hundreds of properties for very cheap: https://www.landandfarm.com/search/michigan-land-between-5000-and-10000 https://www.landandfarm.com/search/michigan-land-between-500... Also I had a friend who did this near the California/Nevada border. Super cheap land if you don't care about electricity and plumbing! Michigan and California are both extremely populated states -- but MOST of them by land area is very sparsely populated. I'm sure someone here knows more, but I think it's obvious if you just drive 30, 60, or 120 minutes outside any city in the US. There is a lot of land. All of it is probably owned, but the owners are probably not doing anything with it, and would sell it for a fair price, which is low. Hell there is even land in San Francisco if you've ever biked between San Francisco and South San Francisco. Again, it's owned, but it's not doing very much. Humans like to crowd together in very few places, particularly near water. Here's a more relevant picture: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/3d-mapping-the-worlds-largest-population-densities/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/3d-mapping-the-worlds-large... Judging by this picture, the US, Europe, and Russia are barely populated at all :)