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One counterintuitive bad thing about Bitcoin is that it is a far better investment than land.

Real estate prices are inflated by decades of fiat games. Cheap debt. Tax advantages. Mortgages stretched across generations. This early state of bitcoin makes it massively cheaper in comparison.

So yes. If we are talking pure returns, real estate is a shitcoin. Buy Bitcoin.

But here’s where it stops making sense. I see plenty of Bitcoiners who've already won. They've seen massive gains and are financially free in ways that we all dream of. Yet they still live in cities boxed into apartment buildings and subdivisions. They still live inside the system they claim to see through.

Admittedly, I have my own bias here. I grew up on a farm and will never totally feel comfortable living a city life in a way that many people do. But I also fell for the same trap during my 8 years in cities and didn’t appreciate what I had growing up until I came back.

When you’re in the city and think about moving to a small town, you worry about what you will miss. The events. The bars. The endless options. I was afraid of that too and moving home felt like giving something up.

But once I was out, I realized none of it mattered. You stop chasing plans and start actually living.

Many Bitcoiners talk about citadels. About someday buying land. About someday living differently. I get it. Making the leap is expensive. I wouldn’t have been able to do it if my dad hadn’t made it his life’s mission to buy the farm where I was raised. What feels misguided is having that financial option and still choosing to live and raise your kids in their world.

You get eighteen years with them. That’s basically it.

Do you really want those years spent in apartments and crowded parks? Wouldn’t you rather have them outside? On land they can know. In a place they can return to with their kids?

At a certain point, you have to stop looking at your gains as numbers on a screen. You need to turn them into something real. Put down roots. Give your kids a place to know. Buy The Family Land
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scl · 67w
I understand this sentiment, but as a city lover, I just don’t care about buying a farm and “returning to the land”. Cities can be wonderful places but also horrible places, so can open spaces with no one within 5 miles. If a bitcoiner chooses one over the other, it’s there choice and they ...
Jean DuBois · 67w
💯 % There is no better place to raise children than the countryside. The unfiltered exposure to Gods creation helps their development significantly. https://image.nostr.build/e3778f2ad7a95e4a015efa9f27ae56f2bb0a5a00c9c380d290bd5a46a0ebfbd5.jpg
Jamie · 67w
I totally agree and made the move 10+ years ago. My kids are able to play freely without making special trips to events or be stuck on screens.
Like Ice Cream · 67w
I love this. That feeling you are chasing is freedom. Buy your family land.
Turiz · 67w
Land for sale in Kenya 🇰🇪 💜 anyone who wants to move abroad 🫂
₿oniz23⚡️🏴‍☠️🇮🇹 · 66w
An excellent analysis. You know I think that in the next 100 years there will be an inverse escape compared to the one experienced 100 years ago! I think the cities will be emptied and the countryside will be rehabilitated where there is nature and pleasure of living. When people understand it there...
Sooly⚡️سولي 🇱🇧🇧🇪🇦🇪🇦🇴 · 66w
Whoever doesn’t have a connection to nature and the soil won’t get this. Godspeed Ben
Deleted Account · 66w
Might get a small chunk of this as well 💪 https://blossom.primal.net/0f0607556eb6b3fe732c5800dcb588647f9a0751c8e47b9e19237de90c5f4661.jpg
𝕞ptf · 66w
Loved this Ben. Ienjoyed the city when I was younger but realised after a while they have no soul. Life out in small towns is so much more relaxed and a higher quality of life. Now I'm even allergic to large groups of people, it's awful to see how crammed people are together especially in capital ci...
Jake Woodhouse · 66w
"Buy the family land" Rings very true to me today "You can't live in a Bitcoin" been hammering me all week, as I've packed up to move house for the 10th time in 5 years.... Some bold moves required!
Hanshan · 66w
Bitcoin is also inflated by fiat games
JD · 66w
Bought our family's dream home six weeks ago. There will always be new ways to make money (stack sats), but time will always be our most limited asset. Enjoying life now while also building for our future and the next generation when I'm gone.
AC · 66w
Buying land with a multi generational mindset is the only chance parents have to stretch that 18 year clock with their kids. Being 1.5 years into that timeline already this hits hard. I'd do anything to slow that clock down and Bitcoin is the best chance I've got. It is in direct conflict with low t...
FiddleHodlHomestead · 66w
I never imagined my life outside of the city but am so glad that we bought our land. It didn't feel like a financial investment, more of an investment in the family and the life we wanted to live - we're living here, growing plants and animals, building skills that I could not have even imagined.
NatureCrank · 66w
But we have to be honest, when crap hits the fan, I can grow something on land. It's not about investing. It's about surviving but also living life more abundantly. I'd take proper land of bitcoin any day.
Indonesia ⚡ Lea Octaviani 🍊 · 66w
just reminder: Bro sold right before #Bitcoin started ripping 👇 https://image.nostr.build/4c9e99b8ffd0ef0ca4073f2367f4f05b73c800674ad5a7c16adac2cda536d137.jpg
Lightning_Sparks · 66w
There should be a campaign focused on helping farm families acquire a bitcoin treasury. Farmers Bitcoin the most
old man shouts at mahdood · 66w
Hurrrrrrumph!!!🫡🫂 https://image.nostr.build/decf6ce4db2c45b086b5a1968cab2ecbb1d4c0b7d2f830db891e000fdba2fdab.jpg https://image.nostr.build/60152ad4cfdb932357188b82b6a6ccace8e8762b1f055a97a3da295f48006f8c.jpg
Tommy "The Purchase" · 66w
Unfortunately, land is also way easier to confiscate, regulate, or intrude upon, and binds you to a certain spot on the planet, at least to a certain degree. Now, I'm all in favour of buying and owning the family farm but it is just so hard to find the right place for it.
DominikWeil · 63w
Thank you for your inspiration.
Akamaister · 57w
So very true Ben ! Thank you for sharing!!
SoapMiner · 57w
Good take brother. 🤙
The Bitcoin Butcher · 57w
Very good point 💪 one day I will be able to buy some land here in Tuscany 🇮🇹 with the sats I am stacking everyday.