Quote Originally Posted by johng View Post
Off the beaten path in JA you can buy land much less expensive than most everywhere in the US. Depending on who you live with (Family or alone) you can build a really nice place for way less than NA.
Can you actually build for less? Everything I've seen (which admittedly isn't a great deal) would make me think that construction costs would be higher due to costlier materials and finishings. Labor is cheaper, of course, but with most materials being imported I've always understood costs to be higher by the time the project is completed. (Of course that assumes construction of a house roughly on NA standards.)