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There sure is a lot of cheap land out there, but nary an allodial title to be found.

• patio11 18y ago
  Basically, the value of the land to this type of person is less "I own the land" and more "I am totally free of any regulation other than my own". Which should let you predict who is most likely to want to live there. That said, isolated communities in the US come pretty darn close to this already. There are any number of compounds in the Western states where the government takes a very don't-ask-don't-tell stance towards any number of generally applicable laws. The surprising thing for a lot of people with the raids on the polygamist compound wasn't so much that the government would raid if it suspected you were marrying off children but rather that it would take that much to get them to be interested in a township's internal affairs -- people often expect the government to be rather more omnipotent than it is or cares to be.