Gregory's Server
What do you mean be independence exactly?
Living in the city I can take a cheap taxi a public transport, a bike or a car ride (if I have one) to the place where I need. So even if the car or bike breaks there are still options. In countryside your are much MORE depended on car for example. Of course you can do some basic maintenance (oil + filters change etc) but I doubt that you can repair broken engine so easily. So it seems for me that you are even more dependent on tech+supply chain
@w96k and growing your own food... That's a dream too. I mean growing food for real for the whole year for a single grown man is really a lot of work. Even more for the family. You can grow only basics: potato + garlic, tomato, onion etc. And they are usually cheap
You'll still buy meat, fish, bananas, berries, mushrooms. milk, cheese etc. That's tasty and more expensive than the basics