re: What would be the best state/area to buy land in?

I’m a realtor and I handle almost all of the land sales in our office. Most realtors hate it, I don’t.

#1 - Get LandGlide, or something similar. You can see the terrain, access, etc with it which helps a lot with land purchases.

National land realty is a good place to look for large tract land. Mississippi isn’t bad for cost, but there are areas in Alabama also pretty inexpensive, there’s creeks and rivers all over the place, timber, hunting (please god come kill deer near my house) and it’s not that far if you want to take a beach or mountain trip.