How to pick a location for you homestead - Part 3 Economics

In this episode we continue our series on how to pick a geographical location for setting down roots for your homestead.  We answer your questions about economics in choosing your location.

Things to consider:

1. Job Market

2. Basis of the economy in the area, manufacturing, retail, agriculture, government, technology etc.

3. Economic stability

4. Distances to places of work, clients, customers.

5. Crime Rates

Sources for info:

1. Local papers

2. Local news

3. Internet searches

4. Job search engines

5. Craigslist

Tune into the show as we answer some of these questions and offer suggestions and how we evaluated our own situation and let economics be a deciding factor in our geographical location.

We will post our blog notes for this episode after the broadcast at bepreparedchannel.blogspot.com.