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I retired and built a home in a rural remote area to get away from neighbors. I’ve got friends in neighborhoods that are large homes, every other one is identical with the next home less that 20’ away. No thank you. No cul-de-sac parties for me, no HOA BS, no interaction with assholes etc.

I can sit on my deck and watch deer, bear, bobcats, racoons etc and they are far more enjoyable then people. They don’t talk just glance over.

No HOA BS, can you keep it down, what are BBQ’ing (if allowed), your dog kept me up all night, did you hear about so & so..... Not the least bit interested.

We moved to this home 15 years ago to get out of suburbia.
We were surrounded by neighbors that we got along with EXCEPT the guy right next door.
So, coming out of the great recession we found this 12 acre property with a house built in 1972. We moved here because we breed dogs. That one neighbor complained about them.

The nice thing is that my closest neighbor is 500 feet away.
I hunt in my backwoods. I am surrounded by generally large properties.

The biggest being my neighbor to the north who has 55 acres. The people on that property sold it a few years ago to a young couple with young kids. I went over to introduce myself when they were rebuilding the house. They were not home. They called the cops. He came over on his ATV. I told him I just wanted to introduce myself and ask his permission to hunt on his property adjacent to theirs. That I had been hunting on it for 13 years. At first he gave his permission. That was two years ago.

The following spring he put up POSTED signs all along his road frontage and down the 1100’ line separating our land. I have not spoken to him since. I did shoot a deer on MY property last November. My tree stand is literally 3’ from our property line. So, I legally can not shoot anything to my right side anymore. Two of the previous deer I had taken over the last five years were just over the line on what is now their property.

So, even living in the country you can still have Aholes move in next door. Even IF they live a 1/4 mile away.

No HOA BS, can you keep it down, what are BBQ’ing (if allowed), your dog kept me up all night, did you hear about so & so..... Not the least bit interested.

One question....where’s the nearest hospital? I ask that question because I read where a lot of rural hospitals are at the risk of closing, and that will be a major factor in forcing people to move to the cities/suburbs.