No, they even try to meddle with me out here. I'm surrounded by trees and foliage, damned if they don't fly over and take pictures of everything visible from the air. It just irks the crap out of politicians when they can't control everything.
Actually, no, that's not true. Here in the rural countryside East of Seattle, the Seattle-based liberals that run the County are writing laws governing our lives and how we can use our property. If we were able to split off as a separate county, we would have what you talk about. Problem is, the liberals are in control of just about all aspects of government in this state and they have written the rules and their judges have interpreted the state Constitution such that no new county will ever be created in this state.
That's the same attitude that has caused Colorado to go from being a state of generally independent-minded folk to one where the vast majority are sheltered sheep in covenant communities.
Those fiercely independent folk who lived in the "countryside" kept a blind eye to what was going on in the cities and suburbs until ... presto ... magico ... the cities and suburbs expanded to incorporate them.
Now what was once a bastion of independent households is now viewed as a fringe group of lunatics depressing the property values of the covenant-protected sheep.
"But we were here first!" goes up the cry, soon deafened by the response of "There are more of us sheep so you are outvoted! Now you have 6 months to get your property in line with all the convenants we decided on without you."
If you truly want to live an independent life, now and in the future, then you need to be actively engaged. You need to make it difficult, expensive, impossible, etc. for big developers to come in and turn your "countryside" into sheep-burbs.
No I don't accept that. Living in an urban area should mean that one surrenders any rights. I don't accept at all that my only choices are to live with government encroachments in a civilized area with all that a big city has to offer, or die of boredom in the boonies.
No slam to anyone who actually likes rural living, but I did it for 10 years, and I best describe it as just losing 10 years of my life. If I had to choose between going back to the sticks or cutting my wrists, I'd buy razor blades.