What I love here in NH is the woods and the wildlife, deer, turkeys, owls hooting at night.
It’s nice and quiet and pretty safe in our locale.
And NH has no income or sales tax and is a Constitutional carry state, which largely accounts for the safe. Someone would have to be a real idiot to try something here.
I think NH and IN might be similar. We have friends where the husband is from NH and they visit there every summer, and he says there are a lot of things about IN that remind him of his home state. They’re on the same side of the neighborhood as we are, where we both back up to woods, creek, more woods, and then a farm. I’m guessing we share the same type of wildlife as you do.
There’s a Barred owl couple that call back and forth every day. Sometimes I can see one when he’s in a certain tree on our property, but it’s easier to see him in the winter when everything is bare. It’s very peaceful. Looks like any regular suburban neighborhood in the front, but the back is a wooded paradise, like the park across the main road. We don’t have quite 2 acres, but it’s more than I’ve had in my adult life. Hubby likes to say that it’s the best of both worlds.