Thanks for the info, Reg.
I’m looking for a place where the Piedmont turns from flat to hilly - maybe a 20-40 acre place where I could raise a few steers if I wanted. Piss away some fuel in my little tractor.
As far as insular, I make it a point to mind my own business. My grandfather hopped a freight from eastern Kentucky to enlist in WW1 so I might still have the proper mindset. ;)
Try Henry Country, VA. Gently rolling east to foothills west, only one town of any note, Martinsville. Nice pastureland, dirt cheap. Caswell Country, NC, too.
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Joshua-Rd_Rosman_NC_28772_M53423-48095
Good price for 15 acres remote lakefront vacant land in Rosman.
You got me looking at land, dang it, lol.
Here’s 24 acres in Caswell County, NC, less than 2k per acre. Looks like much of the timber has been cut over and sold in the past five years, some former ag fields that appear to be something that could be put back to productive use with a bush hog and a good plowing. Creek on the property, but it is on a through route, so it’s not as removed as I’d prefer if I were looking for this sort of thing.
All in all, you could do worse and pay more for it, it’s not an ugly piece of property, just your usual parcel of an older, larger farm.
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Nc-86-Highway_Yanceyville_NC_27379_M66435-64231