So you want to downsize?

You can buy small acreage down here in the range of $200-250 per acre.  Probably a little more if you want to be on the grid.  So people buy 20 acres for $4000, and put some sort of rolling home on it.  That is the simplest living, and all you have to do is pay the property taxes of maybe $5 an acre.  You supply the water, electricity, sewage handling, etc.  Then as you can swing it, you step up to add solar and wind power, a tin shed carport to collect rainwater, a septic field of some sort, etc.  There are no zoning restrictions.    Many of these ventures seem to involve starting out with an old school bus.

 Then add from there:

 Wonder what happened to this dream?

Here is the latest thing.  You and I might call it a garden shed, but here it is a mountain cabin.  These are completely unfinished.  Just 2x4's inside.

The price tags on those two, from left to right respectively:

Or, you can just live on a sofa: