The Future is Unpredictable.
It’s easy for me to feel daunted and unsure at times about my hope to eventually own land, and an off-grid home out in the country at some point in the future. Each week, I invest and save a little more, but it’s still a distant future, with many questions, difficulties and unknowns, but I’m not that worried.
Nothing that I am investing in, really ties me to any one path going forward. Money, not tided up in anything but financial assets is entirely fungible, I am free to move it from one purpose to another. Maybe when I get older, I will want an ordinary house in suburbs, or I’ll decide to be an urbanite and live my final years in the city. Or maybe, rather then living off-grid, I’ll do something with agriculture. But it really doesn’t matter — savings can be used for any purpose.
My job, my family and in many ways my fear of the unknown keep me in New York State for now. But forever, that I do not know. I’m interested in many other states. But things can and do change. Markets go up and down, policies change, new job opportunities present themselves. Even renewable energy and electronics are rapidly changing, the off-grid technologies of today are likely to be different in a decade.
