The requirements for a new home site.
1) in the countryside far enough from town that annexation is almost impossible during life span.
2) Not prone to flooding in a 1,000 year flood.
3) closest neighbor 1/4 mile away min., and must own the land at least 3/4 the way to them.
4) no zoning laws enforced or zoned agricultural, 30 acres min. lot size.
5) must have ability to put in own range, 100 yard minimum 300 preferred, natural backstop a huge plus.
6) In a county with dirt cheap property taxes, low income tax states a plus.
7) able to get gas and junk food close or 10-12 miles away.
8) must have own well and septic, no public services aside from electric and possibly nat. gas.
9) at least 50 miles from any city over 50,000 population
10) Medical, lumber, hardware, drug stores all within 20 miles.
11) area able to grow most foods from tomato's to green beans and the like.
Those are my requirements for anyplace I would ever think of living if I were to move from this area for some reason.
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Except for the taxes, sounds like the place where I live.
I might add:
2a sanctuary county
Able to get non-corn gasoline within 5 miles
Five stocked trout streams within 20 miles
Two Rural King stores within 30 miles.0 -
West by God Virginia
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Ala-damn-bama. 0 -
10) Medical, lumber, hardware, drug stores all within 20 miles.
The medical part may be hard to find if you meet the other criteria. Perhaps a clinic open a coupe of days a week. If you got a place a few miles outside of a small town in South Dakota or some other sparse populated state you'll have most of what you want. Natural gas may be an issue.0 -
Exactly what Rob-Oz says. 0 -
RobOz said:
West by God Virginia
I tend to agree but some issue with WV are a hindrance in my eyes. The declining population is an issue. The unstable financial future of coal is another. Land, while plentiful tends to be extremely hilly with little usable except for flood prone lowlands and hollers. Personal property taxes really bug me too. I looked at several areas of WV and took it all into account when deciding on Southern Ohio. My family's came from the Wilysville WV area. My roots run deep in the area but as you can see the land is seldom flat as shown behind my relatives boarding house.
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Bruce, It sounds like you want to do what we did 19 years ago. I love it here, but I can see the day coming when we will probably move back to the city. Old age is catching up with both of us, and it hasn't been too kind so far. 0 -
In my youth, what you listed above would have been a perfect paradise. I actually bought a place that comes very close to your description 5 years ago. Now at my age and health problems it is getting very difficult to perform much of the required maintenance.
A condo in the boonies is most likely in my future!0 -
Brookwood, I actually made the list based upon my very own property! I have 60 acres three out buildings a nice home high yet fertile land and taxes are about a grand a year. After my neck surgery I realized I had a day-and-a-half's amount of work to do but am only a half-a-day man...I am looking into going three days a week next March when I turn 63. If they will do it and keep my insurance I will try to get used to very little money and lots of time to do what I want to do, just like real retirement would be for me.
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Like your List.Wife's family has the perfect spot. South Central KY 25 miles from anywhere. In a holler, about 100 acres, about 50 tillable acres (was tobacco). Plenty of timber (white oak),Old Barn is falling down. the homestead burned down 40-50 years ago.
Has a natural spring that is damned off to a pond. Even has has a small oil well that sill pumps.
A bit tough to get into as it down a long winding steep gravel road ( trail).Would be nice for a fall back location, with some solar power. But got to have Internet.
Just used for Hunting now.3 -
hoosier said:Like your List.Wife's family has the perfect spot. South Central KY 25 miles from anywhere. In a holler, about 100 acres, about 50 tillable acres (was tobacco). Plenty of timber (white oak),Old Barn is falling down. the homestead burned down 40-50 years ago.
Has a natural spring that is damned off to a pond. Even has has a small oil well that sill pumps.
A bit tough to get into as it down a long winding steep gravel road ( trail).Would be nice for a fall back location, with some solar power. But got to have Internet.
Just used for Hunting now.
Sounds PERFECT! I also have free gas and my back up generator runs on it or propane. I keep the 500 gal propane tank full so if there is a gas well issue, like a freeze up, I can still remain warm and comfortable. Well gas is wet and the pressure reducing orifice will freeze up sometimes after it warms from from a cold snap. I have to go back to the gas tap off with a few thermos's full of boiling water to unclog the freeze up.0 -
Check out eastern North Carolina . Lots of counties in my immediate vicinity meet your requirements . Taxes etc not overly burdensome . Look at Wayne , Duplin and Lenoir counties
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hoosier said:Like your List.Wife's family has the perfect spot. South Central KY 25 miles from anywhere. In a holler, about 100 acres, about 50 tillable acres (was tobacco). Plenty of timber (white oak),Old Barn is falling down. the homestead burned down 40-50 years ago.
Has a natural spring that is damned off to a pond. Even has has a small oil well that sill pumps.
A bit tough to get into as it down a long winding steep gravel road ( trail).Would be nice for a fall back location, with some solar power. But got to have Internet.
Just used for Hunting now.
Looking in Tenn for a large tract out in the middle of no where but still within driving distance of a hospital and groceries.0 -
You have described my place, except for #9. I am only 30 miles from Asheville, not 50.0 -
allen griggs said:
You have described my place, except for #9. I am only 30 miles from Asheville, not 50.
You live in Gods country.. beautiful area.0 -
Thank you select-fire. View from my porch at Christmas.0 -
We used to live so far out in the boonies in Tennessee we had to have sunshine piped in. Great place to live. Luckily by 2016 we weren't living there or else I would be dead by now. A great surgeon saved my life doing emergency surgery one night near the big city of Atlanta. I would have been dead by the time I got to a hospital otherwise.
People put movie stars up on pedestals like they're real heroes. The real heroes get very little recognition.0 -
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I already live there. Have lived there all my life. Not going to move from there.
You'll begin to think twice about those distances when anything breaks, needs replaced, or you need high end medical attention. When a doctor appointment is an all day or maybe an overnight trip, it takes a lot of the flavor off the lollipop.0 -
The place where I vote is on a gravel two track just a tad over a mile away! I get there by golf cart without hitting any pavement! I do have to be on my defensive for those darn Amish road hogs with their fancy horse drawn rigs! 0 -
way back in college at springfield MO in 1961 i went for a drive on rural road and stopped along a ridge and went up and walked along it till i found a sinkhole and a tree fallen down in it...climbed down the tree and found a watercourse thru the limestone about 50' wide and could walk upright most of it and went both ways from the tree/entrance maybe 1/2 mile ???? and the crawled back up... always wanted about 20-40 acres along a ridge in country like that with a meadow out front and a house on the side of the ridge with a back door into the cave......to old now to do it 0 -
Bruce, don’t forget enough acreage with good approaches for your own airstrip and bush plane you will eventually own! That was one of my prerequisites on my new place. House will be finished by the end of the month. 0 -
I'm half-way to that goal but too old to move again. As stated, medical care is important the older you get. 0 -
Just outside of Mountain City, TN. My Brother.
Meets all your requirements.
I moved back down here about 8 years ago. (And) I have lived all over the World.
Butchdog2 will agree, I am sure. (As will Cling2myguns, Allen Griggs and Jim Deere.) I see 2 of them have already weighed in.
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I have a good childhood friend living in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil. He also has a place near here but spends much of his life and time down there. Very successful supplier of exotic woods he harvests from dead fall.
He has invited me several times to come for a visit but just not found the time. Lately, he has been pretty well stuck there with all the travel bans. Seems to get along very well and is even well connected to the world via internet. He has shared pictures of his home there on a crap load of acres that he built himself out of his own wood products. Also has supplied me with some very nice pieces of Ebony, Leopard wood, Cocobolo, and some stuff that is almost as dense as lead!0
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