Where I live, land is a very meaningful constraint, there’s no cheap land near anything meaningful. We’re about at our limit in terms of transportation infrastructure, too, so additional housing has to be apartments right in town or our horrible traffic will become even worse. Unfortunately, everything they are building is tight single family homes.
Many of our immigrant families crossed the Darien Gap by foot for new opportunities. Fortunately there are roads to flyover country. If you have a thumb, escape is possible. Much of my family did it with far less resources and as many familial responsibilities as you probably have
I live on an overloaded island thousands of miles from anywhere else metropolitan, so no I cannot just hook my thumb and hitch a ride with a trucker across the vastness of some flyover states to get to new opportunities.
