Advice for Buying Land

We bought our land quite impulsively. Did we regret it? Yes, sometimes we did, especially the first year. There were moments when we said to each other: “What the f@ck are we doing here!?”

There are always things that come up; you thought you had researched it well and could predict the outcome, but reality is always just a bit different. Moving to another country, faced with a language you don’t speak, a different culture…

Since 2012, when our lives took a different turn,  we have seen so many off-grid homesteads spread across Europe and talked with their inhabitants so extensively that we developed a sense for the pros and cons of different properties in different countries.