good points, but it will give me a lot of freedoms I do not have in this suburb.
I cannot shoot anything, not even a BB gun. This rule I think is retarded.
You can burn. Trash, brush, or just a campfire, you can burn.
Bigger lawns, I’m a grass-man. ;)
Please bear in mind that even a 22 rim-fire has a warning on it of a range of 1 1/2 miles. 640 acres is only one mile square...good luck with your endeavors.
Well, do be careful and investigate thoroughly before you buy. Much of what you hope to do depends on where you’re living. You can probably burn things because your neighbors won’t mind and won’t call the cops, but you’d have to be pretty careful about shooting on your own land—three acres is not anywhere near as big as you seem to think. I know if I were playing around with my 9, three acres would be NOWHERE NEAR enough land to stop a round from going through my neighbor’s living room. Let’s not even discuss rifles. Three acres is still the ‘burbs. If you want privacy you are going to need at least three times that much land.
If you have animals, you will also have to take care to study the issue of manure disposal. This is a big and often expensive problem.
Before you buy, also have a separate inspection of your well and septic system. Check out the drainage situation as well. And have the soil analyzed to make sure you can grow stuff on it without having to do a major soil-renovation project. Some people buy wooded land and find that they can’t just cut trees down and have horse pasture or a vegetable garden.
One of the great advantages of living out in the sticks is that you will have freedom to get off the grid a little bit—chopping your own wood for a stove instead of paying the utilities to heat your house, perhaps generating some of your own electricity, and of course you won’t have to pay a community association fee, a water bill, or a sewerage bill. If you can show that you are seriously engaged in an agricultural enterprise, many states will give you a break on your property taxes, too. But sometimes the time and expense involved in commuting a longer distance to work and shopping negates the tax breaks.
I’m issuing you these warnings because I know many, many, many people move to “the country” because they think they would like country life. But once they get there, they learn that it’s not at all what they thought, and after a year or so they’re really unhappy.
Best wishes and good luck! Country living can be immensely rewarding if you’re temperamentally suited to it.