a rural house with 2 acres of land
 I'd like to live simple life, do small farming, few goats and birds, big vegetable gardens, things to make me food-independent.
 wild tall growing grasses, no manicured lawns, wildflowers growing tall everywhere, beautiful nature mess,

Ecuador is an increasingly popular choice for American ex-pats. You sure you want to tackle the cold winters in Russia? Especially if you are bi-polar, winter cabin fever will make it worse. As you get older, the cold is harder to take.

Try northern California:
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40 acres by Mt Shasta:
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Former Climber - try Canada. But not in the cities.

I would wager the "empty villages" and abandoned areas of Russia are likely not 'safe' either.

Sounds like you want rural/frontier living but with modern conveniences like grid electricity, high speed Internet access and 'safety'... for cheap.

If you find it, please let me know where. Promise I won't tell!

I didn't mean the bipolar thing as a jab... not at all... I just meant that if you have a serious mental condition, uprooting yourself to a foreign place with no social ties probably isn't the best idea.

What about saving up for an extended off-the-grid 'vacation'? True isolation... tent, boots, pack. A month or two of hiking might do some good. There are plenty of places you can still get lost for that amount of time.

It's troubling that you can't figure out what the above means.

It means you can move as much as you want, as far as you want; you will still have the same brain with all the same problems, you will still be bipolar, with all the problems that carries. You can't outrun it. It doesn't get filtered out by a visa or a border. A different culture exposure doesn't fix it.

Interesting. formerclimber, I scanned your replies quickly and was most shocked to find out that you are a "she" not "he". I definitely have a certain gender stereotype in my mind and would have never guessed that you are a woman. Without getting into details (and risking being politically incorrect), let me just say you have my respect for your vision.

Talk about your vision...

a rural house with 2 acres of land
I'd like to live simple life, do small farming, few goats and birds, big vegetable gardens, things to make me food-independent.
wild tall growing grasses, no manicured lawns, wildflowers growing tall everywhere, beautiful nature mess,
I don't mean to cherrypick, but those are a few things that stood out in my mind. Sorry if you've mentioned this already that I missed, but have you ever lived your vision anywhere?

In my observation, usually being food-independent takes a village, or at the minimum, a family. There is a reason why rural developing regions prefer having boys because living a food-independent life (for many, not by choice) demands strong and ample labor.

Wild tall growing grasses need attention as well because they can quickly become fire hazard in a dry season.

The upkeeping of a house, esp. a rural house, and acreage where labor help is scarce, can sometimes be overwhelming, esp. for a lone woman. (Yeah, I'm no feminist.)

One last thing, you mentioned you were bipolar. Could there be any chance that you also had/have depression? (No need to answer me/here.) One's mental state can also affect his/her outlook on life too, something I try to self-examine frequently.

Oh, maybe just one more thing. All studies have pointed out that social isolation is not healthy for an aging mind (think dementia and Alzheimer, etc). Loners beware, maybe?

My old college roommate teaches at a small university in the midwestern corn belt located in a smallish town of 15,000 people surrounded by endless agriculture. You can buy a decent house there for $25k, a nice place for $70k, and a really, really nice place for $150k. Most of the homes on the market there are under $130k, I'd guess the median home price is $70k. An old four-square style two-story farm house on a few acres five miles out of the city would be very cheap there.

It's a college town, so there is culture and amenities, of course good internet due to the Univ, it's a reasonable 1hr drive to larger cities with almost anything you would ever need and you can be in really big cities within 3hrs if you need an international airport or something of that nature. Obviously the climate and conditions are prime for agriculture, growing food would be easy enough. It gets hot in the summer for a month or so, like almost everywhere else in the US, but has cold winters, plenty of water, and nobody is going to care if you have some animals and a garden - unless your house was "in town" you would stick out more if you didn't have animals and grow crops.

There are many similar towns in this area of the country, all across Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri. They are not exciting places if you are seeking "mountain sports", but there are ample outdoor recreation opportunities, the towns are "lively" with good food, music, pubs and that sort of thing, and it's very cheap and easy living with low crime.

There are rural parts of Washington with very reasonable real estate and in Eastern Washington the sun actually shines! Our very own Wayno lives there. It is waaaay better than the Midwest.

A friend just sold her 5 acres with a nice big house 5 miles from Tonasket for $200K,
pretty damn cheap if you ask me. $20K per acre is pretty standard anywhere decent.

The only downside of having a small farm is being dead-tied to the place.

Oh, I'm a feminist, not sure why not be one.

In Russia, I do know women who do this alone. In fact, some people in Russia (pension age) do this because this is the only way to have something to eat! And those who are not alone mostly got fist-fighting drunks for a husband in rural areas, hahaha, not much use, expect in terms of knowing to find where vodka i

Worst thing is lack of motion and lack of mental stimulation.

Of course I do have depression, and it doesn't respond to any medications, neither I can tolerate side effects from them. I have it all my life.

I'll definitely give this move a heavy thought...