[onetimePete]

Alot also loose the land they had, to the banks over time and become glorified landscape facility managers for the bank or for example a energy company.

The guy in that "My-little-farm"-book you've read, might never have smiled so happy, and it might never have been his "little-farm". I know a lot of people who wont accept this though. You got to be rich, living the good life out there- else, where to daydream-escape towards from a day in the city.