Oregon ‘hobbit hole’ dweller lives the simple life on $5,000 a year

Dan Price left the rat race behind after his marriage fell apart. The 'Earth native' built his underground home for just $75 in a field outside of Joseph, Ore.

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Oregon ‘hobbit hole’ dweller lives the simple life on $5,000 a year Hobbit17n-4-web

Dan Price of Joseph, Ore., prepares to crawl inside the ‘hobbit hole’ where he lives without major appliances, such as a refrigerator.

He’s got no wife, no money, but he’s happy in his “hobbit hole.”
Dan Price left behind a stressful life as a photojournalist after his marriage fell apart, and he wound up in a meadow outside Joseph, Ore.
He now lives in an underground hutch burrowed into the hillside.
“I like being able to do what I want to do,” Price told NBC. “I don’t believe in houses or mortgages. Who in their right mind would spend their lifetime paying for a building they never get to spend time in because they are always working?”

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Oregon ‘hobbit hole’ dweller lives the simple life on $5,000 a year Hobbit17n-2-web

Dan Price of Joseph, Ore., shows off his underground ‘hobbit hole’ where he lives on just $5,000 a year.

He built his hobbit hole almost entirely out of scavenged construction materials and what he could find in the meadow.
The self-described “Earth native” has a one-room living space, a sauna/bathhouse and a cave-like “garage” for his three-wheeled bike.
The poor-man’s paradise is wired with electricity, but Price skipped major appliances, such as a refrigerator.

The project cost him about $75. He leases two acres of land for $100 a year.

It’s all part of the simple life Price has pursued for the past two decades. He said he can cover all his costs on the $5,000 salary he makes off his magazine, Moonlight Chronicles.
That even allows him to spend his winters surfing in Hawaii, he said.

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Oregon ‘hobbit hole’ dweller lives the simple life on $5,000 a year Hobbit17n-1-web

The door to Dan Price’s ‘hobbit hole’ is so low he has to crawl inside, but his home only cost him $75 to build.
Price was inspired by the 1974 book “Payne Hollow” about writer Harlan Hubbard’s Thoreau-like life in Kentucky.
He eventually dropped out of the 9-5 rat race a built a lift stripped down to essentials of food and shelter.
“When you get rid of things,” Price said, “you’re given the gift of more in a sense — more freedom.”

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Oregon ‘hobbit hole’ dweller lives the simple life on $5,000 a year

Oregon ‘hobbit hole’ dweller lives the simple life on $5,000 a year

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