I have seen many an occupied barn in rural America.
This kind of situation is usually a medical condition and the land inherited from grandpa. The piece of land and shanty structures on it are all they have. Which is actually a whole lot given the value of land these days.
But for the most part they’ll stubbornly die on the bit of land they grew up on. If they have kids who left, they sell afterwards. If there’s kids that don’t leave, they perpetuate the cycle another generation.




Back when I worked for a health department there was pretty good evidence that people mostly shit at work.
I came across this evidence when inspecting homeless encampments which was also when I came to learn most of them fucking had jobs.
Then covid came around and all the remote workers started blowing up their septic systems because they’d never been used so much and during the daytime.
The sanitary overlap between tent cities and fancy farmhouses is much larger than you’d expect.