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Still building the complicated website (maps and video and calculators), so its not yet online. I currently send out a spreadsheet brochure every week with new

Still building the complicated website (maps and video and calculators), so its not yet online. I currently send out a spreadsheet brochure every week with new rural lands and tiny or mobile house and van conversion options to choose from. I do virtual tours around the nature reserve or farm lands online, augmented by Google Earth and Streetview tours with video conference sessions. I shoot video tours and photo galleries of the available lands and houses. Most of the time its more like a coaching session, explaining how to get a visa, how to find reliable remote programming jobs, how to get a loan. Explaining why its very hard to make the transition without my professional help. Some want to buy a turnkey house, land and infrastructure. This is possible but moving to a rural existence is much more involved than these customers think. A sales website would not convey this, this is why I prefer online tours and discussions. morphle at ziggo dot nl to request my brochures or book a personal tour. I'm looking for cofounders and sales people (on commission).

Yeri 4y ago
Where are these plots of land?
- morphle 4y ago
  Right now I have offerings in Spain, Portugal, Arizona, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Kroatia, Norway, Finland. For Americans I can offer a permanent visa for Europe as well, this is why the main focus is on Spain and Portugal. I constantly search around the world, but most lands do not qualify because of local political rules. My best is a 100 acre(!) forest on the slope of a mountain. I have several mountain plots with a whitewater river flowing all year. Land plots with an entire forest or lake. I tried to offer land in Kazachstan, Ukrain, Bangladesh, India, Argentina, Costa Rica, Australia and the Amazon rainforest but either foreigners are not allowed to own land or it is without Starlink or fiber backbones where not available or the country is involved in a war. Above $50K (including the land, mobile house and infrastructure) I have a lot more offerings worldwide. Islands in Belize or very remote pacific islands, but you need a boat so its more than $50K. Desert locations, but you must have 4WD and only have two satelite or radio 100mbps connections and need multiple batteries, no fiber. Medical facilities only by plane or helicopter.
  - UncleEntity 4y ago
    I have a friend who moved on some land near Holbrook, Arizona and it is challenging from what he says. No electricity, has to truck in water, nearest paved road is 45 minutes, closest big box store (Costco) is in Phoenix, dirt roads flood when it rains and he has to camp out in the post office parking lot when it snows so he doesn’t get stuck trying to go work. And he loves it…
    - throwaway894345 4y ago
      I stopped overnight in Holbrook on my way through to Phoenix in January, they were supposed to get an inch or so of snow overnight, and the locals kept advising me to wait until the snow clears before resuming my trip. I was tickled because I'm from the rural midwest where 2 inches of fresh snow was a best case scenario growing up. Holbrook gets about 5 inches of snow a year whereas my native county would get 42 inches (the US average is a little under 30).
      - SenHeng 4y ago
        I live in snow country too, and I think this advice isn't really about your ability to handle the snow. It's that they don't get snow often enough to know how to drive on snow. Then there's all the out-of-towners that drive faster than 60km/h when it's puking snow.
        peteradio 4y ago
        They also don't have rescue equipment like the midwest. We have scalable plow trucks which work for medium rescue and even special large tracked vehicles for deep snow efforts.
      - UncleEntity 4y ago
        If Holbrook is getting snow then Flagstaff is probably getting hammered which is most likely what they were concerned about. I’ve been through Flagstaff a few times when they really should have shut down the roads but didn’t for who knows why, it’s not like Arizonans are known for their bad weather driving skills. They actually have a “Stupid Motorist Law” for people who drive through flooded roads and have to be rescued because it happens so often.
bobwaycott 4y ago
Sent you an email. Would love to chat. This is something high on my interest list, and I’ve been thinking on how to make this easier for US expats to learn about and accomplish. There are a lot of blog posts and discussions about this, but making it turnkey would be great.
- morphle 4y ago
  You sound like the person I want to invite to join me in this startup business, you current company is the perfect fit.

Yeri 4y ago

Where are these plots of land?

morphle 4y ago
Right now I have offerings in Spain, Portugal, Arizona, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Kroatia, Norway, Finland. For Americans I can offer a permanent visa for Europe as well, this is why the main focus is on Spain and Portugal. I constantly search around the world, but most lands do not qualify because of local political rules. My best is a 100 acre(!) forest on the slope of a mountain. I have several mountain plots with a whitewater river flowing all year. Land plots with an entire forest or lake. I tried to offer land in Kazachstan, Ukrain, Bangladesh, India, Argentina, Costa Rica, Australia and the Amazon rainforest but either foreigners are not allowed to own land or it is without Starlink or fiber backbones where not available or the country is involved in a war. Above $50K (including the land, mobile house and infrastructure) I have a lot more offerings worldwide. Islands in Belize or very remote pacific islands, but you need a boat so its more than $50K. Desert locations, but you must have 4WD and only have two satelite or radio 100mbps connections and need multiple batteries, no fiber. Medical facilities only by plane or helicopter.
- UncleEntity 4y ago
  I have a friend who moved on some land near Holbrook, Arizona and it is challenging from what he says. No electricity, has to truck in water, nearest paved road is 45 minutes, closest big box store (Costco) is in Phoenix, dirt roads flood when it rains and he has to camp out in the post office parking lot when it snows so he doesn’t get stuck trying to go work. And he loves it…
  - throwaway894345 4y ago
    I stopped overnight in Holbrook on my way through to Phoenix in January, they were supposed to get an inch or so of snow overnight, and the locals kept advising me to wait until the snow clears before resuming my trip. I was tickled because I'm from the rural midwest where 2 inches of fresh snow was a best case scenario growing up. Holbrook gets about 5 inches of snow a year whereas my native county would get 42 inches (the US average is a little under 30).
    - SenHeng 4y ago
      I live in snow country too, and I think this advice isn't really about your ability to handle the snow. It's that they don't get snow often enough to know how to drive on snow. Then there's all the out-of-towners that drive faster than 60km/h when it's puking snow.
      - peteradio 4y ago
        They also don't have rescue equipment like the midwest. We have scalable plow trucks which work for medium rescue and even special large tracked vehicles for deep snow efforts.
    - UncleEntity 4y ago
      If Holbrook is getting snow then Flagstaff is probably getting hammered which is most likely what they were concerned about. I’ve been through Flagstaff a few times when they really should have shut down the roads but didn’t for who knows why, it’s not like Arizonans are known for their bad weather driving skills. They actually have a “Stupid Motorist Law” for people who drive through flooded roads and have to be rescued because it happens so often.

bobwaycott 4y ago

Sent you an email. Would love to chat. This is something high on my interest list, and I’ve been thinking on how to make this easier for US expats to learn about and accomplish. There are a lot of blog posts and discussions about this, but making it turnkey would be great.

morphle 4y ago
You sound like the person I want to invite to join me in this startup business, you current company is the perfect fit.