A combination of lack of funds, lack of suitable land and zoning problems. (Especially zoning problems; there have been several nice parcels with zoning which prohibited our use.)

We have examined many sites in the past few years. We have not found an acceptable site we could afford. We considered over sixty in the summer of 1999 alone. The ones that seemed like good sites had price tags from three times to one hundred times the contents of our bank accounts, while the ones that were near our price range were suitable only for mountain goats, or had significant other problems.