On: Cheap Land Colorado: What going off the grid really looks like

[to1y]

I suspect this is overblown. In the Appalachias for example everyone seems to live to a 100 with no 'infrastructure.'

[MichaelZuo → to1y]

Survivorship bias. All the weaker family members likely died way before 100.

But since family sizes were huge back then, it's not like the families would disappear.