Come to think of it, if we settle in Wyoming or Idaho, I'll need a well insulated log cabin/garage there too! But, a log cabin it will be!
Depending on which Wyoming county you're in, you may find that unfenced land, basements and garages are not taxed, as was the case in the county my Granddad's Homestead Plot was in. Accordingly, he built a 4-car garage over the living quarters in the basement. And while it's an unfenced sqyuare mile, it has the fence from a federal game preserve across the state line for one boundary, and the BNSF railroad tracks for another, and what's saved on taxes can be spent on a hardwired sensor system instead.
I may try something similar if New Hampshire is the pick, depending on how urban/rural a setting I may find myself in there. But I have a few other tricks up my sleeve as well.
A few years back when I was a newspaper transportation columnist, I read one of the tiny legal ads regarding the sale of a portion of railroad right-of-way in our county, got out the plat book, and found a sectuion with some interesting neighbors. I bought it, reinstalled 880 feet of rail on the ties still in place on the roadbed, and parked a surplussed-off caboose and boxcar on it; no property taxes on rolling stock, since technically they weren't *structures*. And I had a tractor for my *locomotive*.
Eventually, the former grain elevator adjoining went up for sale, and I snapped it up. The rail siding there was still in place, and I acquired a couple of switches and more track, which I hooked back up to the section where I was living. I sold off most of the remainin building and structures and had a neat little piece of property at a minimal cost, though kinda linear in nature. But I got to toot my own whistle [actually a Nathan air chime] and ring the bell....
The Class I railroads didn't have much to worry about from my little homebrew operation, as it wasn't quite as long as theirs. But it was just as wide....
I might try something along those lines in the new free state location. I've got a couple of ideas I've not found obvious flaws with yet, and there's only one way to find out for sure....
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