At that time, I did not have any particular expectations of life insofar as they were concrete thoughts about my future. In this respect, I was a "good child of my generation". Growing up in the 80s, I did what a proper consumer was expected to do: Work, travel, party on weekends and spend my money. No thought of retirement or old age. Since you can't have everything in life, I chose the supposedly easy life. With the result that I have no financial reserves and would basically have to say that I led a fine life as long as it lasted. With some dark times in between. It gets serious when you have children. Then the fun stops for yourself and you can only hope that it will start somewhere for your children, if they are able to free themselves from certain constraints. Today I would rather live in the country with a garden where I could perhaps lovingly raise what grew there. But that's not the case. If I had found such a thing desirable, I might have done it. But I knew too little about this alternative world because I belonged to the mainstream, well for the most part anyway.

I can therefore neither demonise your "plan" nor advise you to do so. HaHa! All I can say is: do what you think is right. It would be unseemly of me not to let you have your fun when I've had plenty of my own ;-) It's possible that you can do both, if you find a community that will support you. There is nothing wrong with hard work if it directly and locally benefits those who do it. In any case, I wish you only the very best! :D