Good luck! I bet farming is a bit different down there =) Yeah, going totally independent might out of reach. Usually it is so that one needs money to pay for the house and land - I have a small loan from a bank. So I need to do some work to earn money - and to do work I need a car, and to maintain a car I need more money... So it becomes a question of balancing "working for money" and "working to produce food for my own needs". I think that at the moment I'm about the average level of people living in the Finnish countryside. I'm happy with that, and aim to go more self-sufficient and less money-dependent slowly, year by year.