Anyone else like to live far from other people?

[moparwacko]

We live at the end of a rural dirt road. My property is surrounded by very large wooded properties. It is as close to being in the middle of nowhere as one can get here without being a multi millionaire. Everyone that lives along the road leading to it has at the very least 3 acres. My closest neighbor (in-laws old house)is a hundred yards away, and are a very nice younger couple (40's). Everyone owns firearms of some sort and gunfire is normal and for the most part ignored.
With all that, schools, stores, and hospital are all 3 miles away. The house itself is 2400 sq ft two story and is no longer need for empty nesters.
I've thought about downsizing to a smaller one story house, but I couldn't recreate the location, privacy, view, or shop with what I could sell for. I'm staying for as long as I can manage the property.
It literally is private enough for the old adage that I can piss off my back porch anytime I want to.

 

[Cranky]

We live at the end of a rural dirt road. My property is surrounded by very large wooded properties. It is as close to being in the middle of nowhere as one can get here without being a multi millionaire. Everyone that lives along the road leading to it has at the very least 3 acres. My closest neighbor (in-laws old house)is a hundred yards away, and are a very nice younger couple (40's). Everyone owns firearms of some sort and gunfire is normal and for the most part ignored.
With all that, schools, stores, and hospital are all 3 miles away. The house itself is 2400 sq ft two story and is no longer need for empty nesters.
I've thought about downsizing to a smaller one story house, but I couldn't recreate the location, privacy, view, or shop with what I could sell for. I'm staying for as long as I can manage the property.
It literally is private enough for the old adage that I can piss off my back porch anytime I want to.

Used to be pretty private here until the land behind me was finally turned into a new neighborhood a few years ago but I still have decent privacy to where using the bushes out back hides me well enough to 'go' and not show anything. Got to really pay attention to notice if anyone is back there doing that though but then it's only an assumption. Also, there's a wide utility easement along with a large county flood control ditch between my land and the new development.

 

[68BabyBlue]

How about growing up in an 8-family apartment house ? Where all you have is 4 or 5 rooms ? And a bunch of people you either like or don't like, quiet or noisy, etc. And growing up on the street either kicking ***, or getting your *** kicked ? Welcome to Brooklyn in the 50's-60's-70's.

My parents fled from this when my dad got back from WWII, and got a job at Penn State. He was determined to live rural, and did, with an acre on the side of a mountain. But the only way he could afford that spread, was to buy in what was considered the worst neighborhood in the school district. Next door neighbors on either side were on welfare, half the kids on my school bus ended up in prison. Fringe benefit was one of the best trout streams in the country located 10 minutes from our driveway, caught my first trout on a dry fly at age 13.

I would have happily lived there in later years, but my wife had other thoughts. She wanted space as well, but also a sewer system, and a five minute commute to Penn State. I caved on that one, and beat the daylights out of myself to pay for it. Now that I'm old, the current set up seems to make more sense. I learned to get by with just one old Mopar, as a result of the garage situation. Wife pretty much gave me a blank check for the cars, so I didn't consider it a bad trade off.

 

[Hey-O]

I would have happily lived there in later years, but my wife had other thoughts. She wanted space as well, but also a sewer system, and a five minute commute to Penn State. I caved on that one, and beat the daylights out of myself to pay for it. Now that I'm old, the current set up seems to make more sense. I learned to get by with just one old Mopar, as a result of the garage situation. Wife pretty much gave me a blank check for the cars, so I didn't consider it a bad trade off.

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[Sahara]

I live in a small town that is far away from everyone; the nearest town west is two and a half hours on the highway of nothing. No gas stations, no houses, just bush. Mostly burned bush. Going east, three hours of nothing. South, three hours. By nothing I mean no houses, no gas stations, no people. If you hit the ditch at night in forty below it can be a long wait. I’ve seen people burn their spare tire to survive. Seen others die of carbon monoxide because they never cleared the snow away from their exhaust pipe while they were waiting for help. That’s not just a winter thing. A few years ago a guy was first on the scene of a roll over. He found a bear already eating on the deceased driver. There is no cell phone coverage up here for stretches of hundreds of miles.
Before I moved back here I lived closer to civilization, in Alberta on my 160 acres. Seventeen miles north of town but had a farmhouse every mile or so. Still had to watch that bears didn’t eat me or crack heads kill me as they drive around looking for stuff to steal.
So there’s various degrees of isolation and various degrees of “far from people”. Be careful what you wish for.

 

[Runcharger]

It's worth taking my chances to not live next to people. If you have good neighbors enjoy it, they can move so today is today on that deal.
Our health care system is pretty much trashed anyway so I take the best care of myself I can rather than depend on the healthcare system fixing me if I need it.

 

[Hey-O]

100 miles from nowhere would really suck when it comes to a health need or groceries.

I'm pretty happy actually being "in town"... but not really in town, but only 2 miles out. 120 acres combined between the Son and I and another 1000 or so behind us that will never be developed. Lots of room to bury the bodies....
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Sweet setup!!

 

[SlingLow]

Not mine, but my brother and his wife's off-grid geodesic dome. He and his bride have built every single piece of this themselves (except the shingles). I dug the foundation. That's Mt. St. Helens in the background. Up a goat-roping trail behind 2 locked gates. There are 16 five acre lots in this development, and only four full-time, human residents. My brother and his spouse, and his best buddy and his wife on the 5 acres next to his. Tough place to 'just drop in'. They love the lifestyle and the challenge.

 

[dadsbee]

Sweet setup!!

It was all mine, then I sold the 80 south of mine to the Son about a dozen years ago. Mine is 2000' long x 1000 wide and the hangar is dead center on the plot. His is from my gate down to the bottom of that picture and the main road... 2000' x 2000'. His goes into the marsh so nobody can ever get behind / beside him.