I live in Kentucky, 15 minutes from nearest town and have one neighbor a relative 100 yards away. Aside from her the nearest neighbor is several miles away. On the main road to get to my place there are maybe five houses and we are related to some of them. My other neighbor is a national park with dense wilderness.
I have five acres, my neighbor-my mother-in-law has a hundred and eighty acres loaded with deer, squirrel, rabbits and ever critter imaginable. Then we have a creek down the mountain from us not a quarter mile and a pond on her property. Propane gas logs with 150 gallon tank for me and 300+ for her.
I’ve had real estate agents begging me to put my house on the market, saying they will get me $500-$600K easily and her close to a million. So far my wife says no, this is her ancestral home property and she’s not leaving.
All self-serving as they don’t really care about you, but the healthy commission they’d get from the sale of your house.
And, of course, there’s the problem of you finding something as nice as what you have that you can afford.
It reminds me of used car dealers who whine, *We need your car* as if they are destitute and you’re doing them a favor selling them yours, while you then need to buy a new one yourself, from them of course.
I don’t trust anyone in sales.