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It's not about money. It's about self-reliance, survivalibity, retreat from the insanity of the world (like the constant hysteria that media forces unto us, or the chasing of wealth). The point is a calm and quite life. People in the city are fucked if no water running, no food arriving, no fuel for heating. People in the countryside can make or have all that. In the city you can't just go out and chop the tree in the park an build a fire in the middle of your apartment. You could grow a tomato in a pot but you could produce only so much food you can starve to death with that. If no electricity most professions are useless, just a bunch of hungry mouth looking for food and asking for trouble.
Problem is it's very hard to find similar minded people for a community of such. It's not just an aspect of personal life, like a hobby, but itself is a living. As I stated before. And alone it is a bitch.