I remenber threads in a a board once where people were looking to live togheter somewhere and started looking for a nice, secluded place to buy. Of course, like many other of these ideas, the thing never lift off planning but they did show that there are, in fact, many isolate small towns out there that don't seem to be getting the reach of the urban stress soon. Maybe that is what you are looking for, OP. If you do wish to live in the wilderness, however, good luck wrestling bears.

Living that sort of rural life is really very hard. If you haven't grown up there you will not know how to take care of yourselves. There are people however who inherit property and simply pay their property taxes through money they get doing odd jobs like bear baiting, or growing and selling dope. It is an existence of extreme poverty, but if you have rural skills and are able to get into their whole secret/informal/gray/black market thing it is doable. It is sort of a marvel to behold when you discover it.