In the last 10 years, five subdivisions sprouted up within 2 miles from my dad's house. A new gated community went up 1/2 mile away. $500K+ There's a $600-1mill sub 1.5 miles away, and a 300K-500K sub now up across the street, and another just down the road. This is just down the road from his place. It used to be all woods. I wish it still was.
If I pay $500K, it's going to be a 20 acre ranch where I can hunt, and also have none of that homeowner association stuff.
Yeah, I want the same thing. Ever notice how those $300k + homes look... cheap and cheesy? Ugh! Exactly... for $300k + I could buy a nice spread in the middle of nowhere.
I'll know I've "made it" in life when I can have outdoor rock concerts in my back yard or shoot high-powered assault rifles off of the roof of my house bare-ass naked at 3am. Now there's a vision for you all! My heavily tattooed naked self on the rooftops, weilding an AK!
hahahahah... At this rate I'm never going to get married... if it wasn't for the fact that my girlfriend is a musician and a libertarian, I'd still be single!!!
Five years ago I paid $38K for forty acres with 1000 feet of river frontage (Nice trout stream); deer, bear, moose, beaver, 25 acres of woods, Maple, oak, poplar and white pine, a few apple trees, the rest meadow with a spring and a grove of poplars in the middle, plenty of room for a nice vegetable garden and enough maples for sugaring in the spring. It's four miles down a dirt road from the village (Population 568 with a diner, general store, bank and gas station) and about 20 miles from the nearest Walmart. North property line is my neighbor the dairy farmer's South forty pasture, the neighbor on the South is surrounded by woods and grows blueberries.
The wife wants horses so we'll be building a nice big barn with a small living quarters in the loft. Estimates run about $50K, more, or less, depending.