It should be noted that if you are up for renovating an old home in a small town, there are no lack of cheap, abandoned homes in the USA either. Or, just buy land and build the home from the ground up. At the end of the day, your money and energy are going to go into the renovation or construction, not initial purchase prices.
This reminds me of discussion I've been in some months ago on HN.
My point was that "building more houses" is not cure for homelessness.
Because people don't want to live where abandoned homes are - because there are no jobs, no amenities and probably none of family members or friends.
Getting to hospital nowadays in the city might be hard, can't imagine how hard could it be if you are in some far away village.
I was thinking about living in some remote area if I just could get 3G internet or starlink but then as I got middle age having pharmacy or a doctor close by gets more priority than getting cheap land/getting away from people.
Building more flats in area where everyone wants to live leads to bad outcomes as well - just google Hong Kong flats. I would definitely would not like to live there as it looks like not much better than just being homeless.
