Well apologies in advance for a long and likely tedious explanation but I'm limping with 20kg bag two miles to a park to sleep a bit
It is true that there are some parts of the United States in extremely rural areas where we probably could find similar prices to Spain or Italy. Somewhere between 200 and $300,000 for a home and a plot of land. Pat, part of the Hope is that our friends will come visit us and we can put them up for long periods of time in guest quarters or sponsor artist residencies or Rider retreats or have friends come out to help record music or play in jam sessions. It turns out that coastal Americans are extremely averse to leaving coastal America for just about anywhere other than Europe. To them, rural America is a wasteland that they don't even ding to think of. This makes it very hard to start a remote hub in something like Western Pennsylvania. For example. We experience this firsthand when we lived in Wisconsin. A beautiful, beautiful part of the country and quite affordable. We saw houses for as low as $50,000 in decent shape. But nobody would visit us. Even our close friends said why the heck are you in Wisconsin? Whereas Italy or Spain, they're already very excited to come visit and have made Grand overtures pledging to come annually if we'll put them up
