When the sky-high cost of living in New Zealand finally priced Aimee Clotworthy out of her hometown, she and her husband jumped on a new trend being followed by droves of hopeful homeowners Down Under—they bought their dream home, then had it cut in half, loaded onto a truck, and shipped to a homestead in the middle of nowhere.
Clotworthy and her family have since been embracing the affordable isolation of the wilderness and the freedom it affords them. Their 12-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter have put down their iPads to play outdoors—he loves hunting and she makes mud pie “potions” in the backyard—and the couple are living within their means, expenses in check.
