I'm considering buying the cheapest house or lot of land anywhere in the U.S.

New to reddit and this sub so hopefully this is the right place for this post.

I'm single, in my early 20's, currently making less than 30k a year, and live in a tiny studio apartment with my dog. Its fine but long story short, I have to move in the near future to better accommodate my dog's needs. I have a somewhat lucrative job opportunity working for a buddy of mine and, to once again make a long story short, I'd likely be able to put 40-60k in savings over the course of a year or two. I'm considering working my ass off doing this job until I could afford to buy a crappy house or a lot of land that I could put a trailer on. I can work the job from anywhere in the country and I'm willing to move anywhere north of Kansas (without getting too into the details, job does not require me to work at home or have a good internet connection, it's a trucking job that only requires enough space to store a large vehicle).

I've been looking online a bit for cheap spots and I've found lots of places that seem pretty reasonable. Large plots of land for under $10,000 and smaller plots with livable houses for $30,000 - $40,000. I'm not much for the more cramped lifestyle of the city and I'd like to own my own property, is there a catch to these places? It seems too good to be true but maybe there just isn't much demand for kinda shitty places way out in the sticks. Given that this lifestyle aligns pretty strongly with my values and preferences is it a smart decision to try and buy one of these properties in cash, given that it wouldn't affect my employment?

P.S. I have pretty shitty credit so its hard for me to get approved for apartments and I assume it would be pretty hard for me to get a mortgage anytime soon on a "normal" house.

tl;dr: Should I stack up for a year and buy a $30,000 house in bumfuck Pennsylvania so that I'm not beholden to a landlord for the rest life?

All feedback is appreciated.

Edit: kids are not a factor, won't ever have any

Thanks for all the feedback, positive and negative. Ive tried to read through most of the comments, made it through a couple hundred so far, much appreciated.