Do it yourselfers are hamstrung?

[Guest]

I drive up a county dirt road lined with dumped trash that would not pass any highway construction / condition code anywhere outside the third world. I drive up my subdivision 'road', that is worse. There is zero electrical, sewage or water infrastructure within miles. Zero. Fire protection so far away as to be irrelevant. Same for police. I love it here, but as soon as I am on my own land, suddenly I'm supposed to pay people who make more in an hour than I used to make in a day big dinero to do things almost as well as I can do them myself to a code book hundreds of pages long, pay state inspectors to come and tell me I have to pay to rip-out/do-over construction because a crippled, blind midget might have issues if they lived in the structure, maybe my cesspool is 6 inches not deep enough and needs to be re-dug, etc. etc. to the tune of many thousands of dollars I do not have. Some of us live in the woods for a reason, the main one being that we cannot afford to live anywhere else or play the contractor game. So I'll hire a lawyer when the little white car with the county sticker cuts my chain and comes up my road to ticket me. Till then just leave me the F alone. I'm not on welfare of any kind, don't make noise, don't grow dope, I pay my taxes cheerfully even though they get misspent, and what I build and live in on my land is no ones business. When it is, poor people are screwed because all they want is your money and we have none. But blue skies, 5' surf and aloha to all.