The whole of the Ozarks seems to be divided up into large blocks - I won't argue about the 10 acres; it's the standard in New Zealand, and I sure as shootin' warn't gettin' outta my auto-mobyle in them thar backwoods with no surveyin' gear, no sirree bob!

The tricky-woo part is that almost all of the houses were of the transportable kind. Can any of you USns tell me how much those things cost? There seems to be one pattern, more or less, across the whole of the US of A. Almost as ubiquitous as U-Haul.

The other thing I seek clarification on is how these people make a living. They're hours away from the nearest cities - Jefferson and Little Rock. They can't all be retired, and they can't all run shops in little towns like Mountain View, one of the more misnamed places we visited. Stands to reason that since most of their sections are covered in forest they can't be growing huge amounts of weed. And a lot of them obviously don't have telephone or electricity.

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