I found a peice of rural land 25 years ago......

[JasperFrank]

And naively, I thought it would remain rural, during my life time. Of coarse I can see that I'm the first problem, to have built here in the first place, 25 years ago. When it was truly in the woods up an almost impassable road with no utilities. This is what I wanted, and the rules for having a house on F2 land were very stringent. Last year, I guesss the rules were changed, cause every legal plot all around me has a house being built. And it is happening fast, this year. I should not complain. I just didn't know it could happen so fast, and on all the properties around me,... so fast in one year, they are building!

 

[civilian]

Bummer, how big is your chunk? At least you had piece and quiet for 25 years. Jon

 

[JasperFrank]

20 acres.

 

[hosspuller]

25 years ago, the nearest grocery store was 10 miles away. Now, my driveway is a quarter of the distance

 

[grsthegreat]

Same here. I have 30acres, was extremely rural. 25 miles to town to shop . Now houses popping up everywhere. Was 20 acre minimum. Now 5 acre minimum. Some idiot tried to put 27 houses on 3.5 acres but was turned down …finally.

we now have nice, huge grocery/ hardware store 6 minutes from house, new steakhouse opening, emergicare office opening, new gas station, lube and car wash. A bank, and major auto parts store just opened recently.

where there were small ranch houses, now there are multi million dollar houses behind community gates. Not what I envisioned when i bought here in 1993.

too many changes…too short of time. All the grass prairies are being carved up into housing developments in town. I mean 1000’s of cracker box houses going up,

sickining.

 

[oosik]

My father purchased this 80 acres in 1939. There are certainly more folks out this way since then - but not very darn many. In the last five years - we have lost two neighbors. Their land was sold to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. The lot size minimum is still 20 acres - it's all open range land and wheat around here.

All the really good, tillable, productive land is tied up in wheat - the rest is open range cattle ranching.

A five or ten acre chunk of land is VERY difficult to find. And if it's good, productive land - the price is out of sight.

As most all will know - what can you do with ten acres of really productive land to make any money - legally.

Fortunately - most all these smaller lots are being purchased by existing farmers or ranchers and incorporated into their large tracts.

I have only two neighbors. The one to the north is still 100% cattle ranching. The fellow on the south is split between cattle ranching and wheat.

My house and two others are the only new houses out this way in the last 40 years.

 

[Hay Dude]

Same here. I have 30acres, was extremely rural. 25 miles to town to shop . Now houses popping up everywhere. Was 20 acre minimum. Now 5 acre minimum. Some idiot tried to put 27 houses on 3.5 acres but was turned down …finally.

we now have nice, huge grocery/ hardware store 6 minutes from house, new steakhouse opening, emergicare office opening, new gas station, lube and car wash. A bank, and major auto parts store just opened recently.

where there were small ranch houses, now there are multi million dollar houses behind community gates. Not what I envisioned when i bought here in 1993.

too many changes…too short of time. All the grass prairies are being carved up into housing developments in town. I mean 1000’s of cracker box houses going up,

sickining.

Are these the refugees we see on TV fleeing from neighboring, more oppressive states that have lots of wildfires?
Florida is receiving 1000 freedom lovers PER DAY

 

[ultrarunner]

Idaho is a destination and I have lost several neighbors from Oakland...

All 30 something professional couples... no kids.

The last couple was always off skiing every chance they had.

When asked why the move they frankly said we love our house and neighbors but the area wide looting and riots were a wake up call and they decided they did not want to grow old here...

Similar story often repeated....

It was not high prices or location but simply a why are we here since their jobs in tech could be anywhere...

Of course it did not hurt they sold the home they bought for 800k after two years for 1.2m and we're able to pay 600k cash with sale proceeds for the Idaho home built to their specifications.

It does make a difference leaving with money in your pocket...

 

[Hay Dude]

We were just in Florida and the number of homes being built there is reason alone to travel to Florida. Its like a refugee occupation of another country down there. Lumber prices be damned. Anyone with a tool pouch and basic knowledge is working 70 hours a week putting up homes as fast as they can be built. The Villages are quadrupling in size. Everywhere along the major highways 1000 home developments are going up. Highways being doubled in width and off ramps being built into entire new towns that were once a crossroad in a swamp. Everywhere you look, construction.
My wifes step mother just retired from being a realtor pre-boom there. Said theres not enough realtors, construction or financing people in the world to support their building boom.
Florida has gained almost 3 million people in 10 years and a 1/4 million in just the past year alone. Meanwhile, New York lost almost a 1/2 million people in the same period of time.
Theres just no denying most Americans love freedom. Now it will be interesting to see if after they move to states with more freedom, will they want to keep it that way?

 

[Diggin It]

Y'all's movin' to the wrong places. Most of the land around me isn't buildable due to the fact it's often covered with 2 -3 feet of water for weeks at a time. That happens every 5 years or so on average. The rest of the time it's farmland. Road floods too and I've been flooded in for over a month at times. My little hovel is on a hill 30' above all that though.

One Cali numbskull had a hill built for himself though. Several days of 3 or 4 earthpans from a local construction company dug a pond and made the hill ... about 5 feet above flood stage. Can't imagine what it cost him, but I've seen water just a few feet from his front door.

Other direction is too steep and hilly to build on.

'Freedom' is not having 25 houses where there should be one. 'Freedom' is not being able to hear your neighbor flush. 'Freedom' is not being able to see another house (at least when the leaves are on the trees.)