It's insane that there is literally nowhere that you can have a piece of land reserved to you without perpetually owing someone money. Like it isn't possible at all. With home ownership, you will always owe taxes, so there is no such thing as paying it off. People claim mortgage payments are fixed/stable... yeah, taxes are not. Where I live taxes are like 50% of what rent would be. And on top of that you have costly maintenance that could happen any time, and if you live anywhere prone to natural disasters or even the occasional naughty storm, you better have all kinds of insurance. You're still renting. Even if it is fully paid off.

Let's say you decide to abandon modern life and move into the woods, guess what, there are fees to camp in BLM land or in national forests even, and even then you have to move around every few weeks. Camp anywhere near a city, you're homeless scum that has no rights anymore, what's the matter, the shelter is full? participation in the system is not optional. The only actual liberty and freedom is wealth in modern society, you still have to pay but you can setup lawyers and corporations to manage that for you, and fund any life style you want anywhere without worry.

It used to be in our history, that so long as you can work a land and live off of it, and you lived in peace and got along with your neighbors, you were left in peace and to your devices.

In the name of liberty, slavery has been instituted, since you must work, get currency and exchange it, and even then you must be kicked around like a nomad, whether you are renting (rent prices increase yearly until people move out), or camping in the forest or on a mountain top. Even in medeival feudalism, you got to stay in your allotted house and land, and to the most part currency exchange wasn't required, simply a share of your crops, animals,etc... was what was expected of you.

I don't have (never will) children, I don't drive cars (and even if I did, there are road taxes when you pay for gas!), I pay a ton into medicare and social security, so why am i paying for property tax? i already pay for water/sewage separately, simply having the fire department out to help you costs thousands of dollars anyways, and i wish we could reduce the funding to cops. why would i pay property tax so much, and it is perpetual and permanent, the property owes the tax even, not the owner!! how ridiculous of a mental gymnastic.

And all of this is assuming you're not unfortunate enough to live in a HOA, in which case it is the worst possible situation, non-compliance with a random person's wishes means they can sell your house on the cheap and tell your property with no consequence. I hope there are countries where things aren't this twisted.