“...I live on just under 500 acres....”
I hope you can defend yourself from roving mobs, AND greedy neighbors.
people can get pretty ugly.
(otherwise, you wouldn’t notice a change....)
Where I live I’m not real worried about roving mobs.
Closest neighbor is about a mile away as the crow flies.
Probably wouldn’t be much of a mob left by the time they got to me.
What few neighbors I have would have thinned any mob out pretty good before I could even get there to give them a hand.
Neighbors around here aren’t the kind that are going to risk getting shot looking for a sandwich.
They would just go in the woods and get some food.