Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

Insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now,

while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua, I'm your host and today I want to share with you one couple's story

and their answer to a question, namely, can you afford to work 9 to 5 I'm often struck in my own personal perusals as I

enjoy reading older books and older magazines. I'm struck at how little is new.

Truly I think Solomon had it right in most things when he said there's nothing new under the sun.

Much of many of the questions, mention the advice that we receive and give in today's world,

it's not new.

It's just a slightly different variation of what's happened before. I recently was reading a by Mother Earth News and in this compendium of articles I was struck by so many

of the articles and how applicable they were to today's world. The same problems

that people were wrestling with back then are the same problems that certain people are wrestling with today.

I have a soft spot and an interest in reading some of these old Back to the Land stories and even the current back to the land stories

but when I use that phrase I'm referring to the movement that came out of the 1970s and the 1980s

with a fairly broad section of US Americans trying to pack up shop and leave the

urban centers and move out to the country. And it was a movement of mixed success.

There certainly were some people who were able to make a go of it, but there were a lot of people who really failed.

And I think the reason many of them failed was the inability to create an income in a rural context.

It's a problem that people in a rural context frequently face.

And it's a problem I think that has new solutions in today's world.

The challenge is, if you're going to move out into a rural context how are you going to provide a living for yourself

To be able to buy the things that you need to buy the way if you want to be the poorest person in the world just go and become a

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