A lifestyle choice? maybe yes, maybe no.
I read in the newspaper recently that the average cost for supplying infrastructure and services for remote communities is $83,000 per person per year. I am assuming these are for the tiny ones way outback. Infrastructure includes roads, power, garbage collection and many other community services.
If you take into account a lot of these people are on welfare from the cradle to the grave, the cost over a lifetime per person can easily be $8,000,000.00 (Eight million). This is the reason that they want shut the smaller ones down.
How many average persons income tax over a lifetime would it take to pay for just one person in a tiny outback remote community?