But I don’t want to sit alone in a room.

Or mountain lions, or coyotes, or… I’ve run out

What a naive comment.

It’s a country the size of a continent with over 300 million citizens. Lots of Americans do what you suggested, but tell somebody in LA or NYC to “get chickens and a small coop” they’d laugh and tell you their reality is very different from yours.

A farm just outside of my US town was selling eggs $5 for a dozen