Once you get south of I64, and west of I75, there are damn near infinite areas for a resourceful person to live off the land. Lots of meth-heads, lots of pot heads, lots of "der terk our jerbs and guns" types. You go in there with an anti-government message, keep to yourself and don't mess with people's stuff you can hide in plain site for basically ever. Some of the people I know bought 20 acres in the middle of absolutely nowhere because at 20 acres you can hunt turkey and antler-less deer without a permit, dig a well with minimal paperwork and go solar and wind with no neighbors to care about your house as long as it is built to code and not a shanty. Beautiful country, full of interesting characters that would make awesome NPC's in a weird modern day survival RPG.