All the reasons you and other people stated is why we moved to this house/property 13 years ago. The house had to be all redone. However, it is very rare around here to find a single family house with 600’ of road frontage on 12 acres. Especially being surrounded by properties of similar or larger size.
There are other issues though trying to maintain bigger properties. I now have a Massey Fergeson 37 HP 4WD diesel tractor. The 25 year old John Deere lawn tractor(that I bought when we moved to the previous house). I just bought a Scag 52” commercial lawn mower. It was taking me over an hour to mow everything with the JD. Now, I mow everything in .9 Hours. However, that Scag cost more than my first several automobiles.
I am at the end of a 1 mile dirt road in the middle of nowhere.
I would have bought the land had I known it was for sale (prior owner said he would offer it to me, but never did)