Living in a horse box in Devon

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Their lifestyle is the future. They are resilient:
- Low / no energy costs, meaning they are insulated from wild fluctuations in these costs
- No mortgage, meaning they don't have to worry about the housing bubble bursting, leaving them underwater in debt
- Partly self-sufficient in food, further reducing reliance on the financial and food-distribution systems
- A modest amount of land, which I assume they own freehold, which they can do all sorts of things with.

They could have done it for less if they'd been prepared to move north or to Wales.

Many people could do this, if they could just overcome the mental barrier of "life becoming too hard". The media doesn't help, e.g.; "They have a compost toilet which Stig has to muck out regularly". If correctly used and constructed, a compost toilet doesn't have to be "mucked out"; merely emptied of compost periodically, which is not an arduous or unpleasant task.

Their total set-up costs were a quarter of what my son just paid for a two bedroom flat on the edge of Woking!