Good point. When I retire, I will probably enjoy the yard work a lot more. With my Manhattan job, I’m not home until 7 or 8 at night and in no mood for yard work! Weekends are sacred and all I want to do in summertime is sit by my grill in the backyard with a few cold ones.
When I built my home in 2000, in eastern NC, my then neighbor and I split a 26 acre lot. He built two homes, one for himself, one for his daughter.
After about seven years they both moved. A nice couple and some of their relatives from NY city bought both the homes.
They come down about twice a year and stay for a week. They are suppose to be moving down when they retire. But they don’t appear to be spring chickens. If they don’t move soon, they may not be around to move.
Anyway, I’ve had no neighbors for around the past ten years. Just two nice vacant homes on the path that my wife and I live.