We have acreage, a bluff on the river, an island in the river, and about a hundred acres of woods. As the trees come down, we cut them up for firewood.

Acreage means we get a tax reduction for Greenbelt status. We have taxes based on low usage and farm bureau insurance is a good company

We know our neighbors, but no one intrudes intentionally or inadvertantly.

From when we bought at about 1K per acre, the selling price around us is now 10K per acre.

I don’t want neighbors within rock throwing distance from me.

Preferably MUCH further than that.
I like my space.

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But why? Why would you need something else to take care of?

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24.5 acres NW of Houston

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building a wedding venue and putting tiny home rentals

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Great, more sprawl.

I kind of like my in laws setup. They bought 10 or so acres out in the woods. Cleared land for a driveway from the road and about 1.5 acres for the house and small garden etc. Left the rest all wooded around them.

Even if someone developed the land next to the them you wouldn't be able to see it and could still take a whizz off the back porch.

I grew up in a medium sized city and lived in the metro Atlanta area after college. My first house with my first wife (definitely no pics) was a starter home in a master planned community.

Well, I got divorced and kept the house. My current wife (no pics either) grew up on 150+ acres just south of Hartsfield. Her family still owns the land and it's undeveloped. Her idea of married life was not in Towne Lake, so we put a realtor friend to work looking for 5-10 acre foreclosures. We gave her a list of 5 counties in western GA to search in a certain price range. She found our current 20 acre property in Floyd County.

I was not so keen to the idea of living so far away from the conveniences of suburban life. After 6 months, I decided I like this lifestyle much better and you couldn't dynamite me out of here now.

Wife and I bought a couple of 9 ac tracts in a developing area just to get some money invested before cash becomes worthless. Much rather have our money invested in a tangible asset. There is substantial acreage on both her side and my side of the family (~2000 ac combined) so we have grown up with the knowledge that land ownership affords one options that would otherwise be unavailable.

We want it because we can afford it

The older I get, the more I value the outdoors and the serenity of nature.

My life experience exposed me to "acreage" a little as a kid as my grandfather and his brothers raised cattle as a sideline in Natchitoches Parish years ago. I loved staying there. My family had been in this area since the 1840's homesteading, Scottish pioneer people.

And then I'm an outdoors guy anyway, like mountainbiking, paddling, fishing, hunting over say playing team sports or golf or gaming.

And even tho I'm an office nerd, I'm a DIYer to the core. I love learning new skills and building things. So taking care of "more stuff" doesn't bother me. Yes, taxes are higher but half of my land is farmed so I get a tax break on that.

For me, there's nothing like working on and improving my place. Sitting on my tractor and bushogging, moving dirt, etc. is now my happy place. Or in one my deerstands watching the sun go down (killed one this Monday). Or starting a fire in the woodstove from wood I cut myself.

I don't have a big place, only 30 acres, but it's my unique place in this world and can't imagine living back in suburbia/city long term.

Precious metals and real-estate are great investments baw!