Tyler Durden said:
paperboyNC said:
I lived most of my life on 4.6 acres. It's a bit overrated and there is a reason why most people in the world live in the cities.
No one on here would probably understand what you're getting at - since they haven't thought about when you live in such places, you are a 30 min drive from anything to eat/shop/socialize/play at. A good comparison would be buying property in temecula, big bear, lake arrowhead or palm desert. You'll have a ton of space and a super inexpensive home... but you'll be up there by yourself.
You also have volunteer fire and typically county sheriffs providing coverage - resulting in higher homeowners' insurance due to slower response times.
Where I lived wasn't that bad:
- 5min to Wal-mart / grocery stores
- 20min to movie theater
- 2min to the highway
I think it's more that you tend not to do a whole lot with the land. At different times we did set up volleyball / basketball courts and soccer fields and we could get wood for the wood stove from our own woods and as kids play in the woods/creek but mostly it's just wasted land (and a lot of work to mow the part that was lawn).
The main advantage was being able to add on to the house and putting a second small home on the land at one point.
Drive around the rural areas around Temecula that are not HOAs and look at how almost everyone with a lot of land just uses it to store vehicle that are no longer operational and for a dust bowl.