[cgbg]

Here is my math:

Thirty years ago I rented an Orange County small house (with no yard except a swimming pool) and noisy neighbors for the same amount that:

(wait for it)...

My current mortgage on my own home with 7+ acres of land in the Northeast surrounded by state forest.

Orange County was great—the problem was the home prices were going up faster than my salary—and that was thirty years ago. I had to bail if I ever wanted my family to have a real home and yard.

[Reeses]

7+ acres of land in the Northeast surrounded by state forest

PA maybe? When I lived in NJ I was surrounded by 7 acres of cops, firemen, school teachers, and other government employed wildlife.