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Every place is pretty much owned in America. Land is valuable. And there is admittedly little or no unspoiled land left.

But don't blame houses. People in America still live on a tiny fraction of the land. Its all about farming and grazing and mining.

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The Feds own most of the land.

See chart "Federal Land as a Percentage of Total State Land Area"

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/04/the-ugly-facts-...

Sure, and they rent it out for grazing, mining. Still nothing like 'unspoiled'.

Personally I don't necessarily care much about "unspoiled". I just wish there was a place I could legally go without paying tribute to the world machine and be free from outside interference with my mere existence.

EDIT: In fact living in a world where such a simple act is not possible isn't a bad definition of hell in my opinion.

Well, there's all that federal land, right?

Personally I just walk out my door - I have 80 acres of rolling hills, trees, occasional waterways, deer, pheasant and miscellaneous critters. Bought by selling my quarter-acre in San Jose and relocating.

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