Exactly, as someone who moved to a rural area (in Chile) a year ago, I can say that you basically pay a shipping tax on everything you need, starting with const

Exactly, as someone who moved to a rural area (in Chile) a year ago, I can say that you basically pay a shipping tax on everything you need, starting with construction materials themselves. It's basically that ancap meme of building your own infrastructure: water, electricity, access roads, clearing the vegetation that constantly tries to reclaim your property. I've never owned so many things in my life until I moved here, many of them just to be able to tend the wilderness around me. But shoveling and cutting things has been an eye-opening experience in terms of how many processes the high-energy urban civilization hides from us. Even with steel/power tools, it’s brutal out there.