True
I’m way to old to be a Millennial, so I obviously can’t directly sympathize, but the ridiculous prices today really trigger the introvert side of me. I have this strong desire to move somewhere that land is still very cheap and become a crazy hermit who lives in a shed or something.

Well it’s telling that all of the rich investment banker types always eventually quit and start a hobby farm in the country.

The general feeling seems to be that agriculture was a good idea, but we took things too far with this whole civilisation thing.

Nah screw that. The issue is not enough cities, and the solution is certainly not further unsustainable sprawl
Moving onto abandoned agricultural land doesn’t count as sprawl if you don’t subdivide it and start growing food.