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10/27/07, 04:18 PM
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How private, is private enough?
This is my driveway. We live in the middle of 66 acres with a half mile long driveway and we love it here. BUT, we have gotten spoiled to having privacy and can never seem to have enough. I always want more. I find myself getting annoyed at the neighbor's over on the road having their "in-security lights" at night, and the noises that having people around creates, barking dogs, generator's running on the neighbor's RV, ATV's racing out the road, etc. even though they are quite a distance away from our house. I think it was Davey Crockett who said "When you can see the smoke from your neighbor's fire, it's time to move on," or something like that.
My question here is, "How much land do you have to have, in order to feel like you REALLY have privacy?"
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10/27/07, 04:23 PM
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Beautiful!
I don't know the answer to your question. I know that sound travels so much more in the woods/country.
i dont have land yet, but was looking at 54 acres.... I would want to live a mile in, at least. I want to be remote and to have a lot of people *give up*, thinking it's not a road at all...
sorry this didn't help
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10/27/07, 04:29 PM
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That's ditto for us too, Rose. We even have a locked gate where the driveway comes off the road. Just curious, how many acres do you have? I remember an article by Jackie Clay where she talked about not being able to find any really wild or secluded places anymore. Do you think that's true?
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10/27/07, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Autumngrey
I don't know the answer to your question. I know that sound travels so much more in the woods/country.
i dont have land yet, but was looking at 54 acres.... I would want to live a mile in, at least. I want to be remote and to have a lot of people *give up*, thinking it's not a road at all...
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We tried the part about hoping people would *give up* thinking it's not a road at all, and we ended up with hunter's on atv's at 4 A.M. in my front yard, after they had passed no less than 6 "No Trespassing, No Hunting" signs, thus the locked gate. I'm beginning to agree with Jackie Clay.
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I am on 80 acres of heavily wooded land a half mile down a private road, from the county maintained paved road.. Part of my driveway coming down the hill inside my gate, where the upper driveway meets the private road!
I have 1 semi close neighbor throught the trees, who's dogs bark constantly at the wildlife. I have privacy, yet sounds do carry a distance up at 1800 feet in elevation. Now I know why I promised the neighbors when I moved in, that I would not be doing any unnecessaryshooting up here.. Someone was target shooting close by last week, very annoying!!
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10/27/07, 05:14 PM
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I would love to live so far out that nobody EVER came so far out without being invited. I don't like the dust from traffic on my little one lane dirty road. When I moved here there was 3 of us in about 10 square miles. Now there are 9 out here. I can see 2 of my neighbors houses in the winter when the leaves fall. It's almost like living in town!
I've planted lots of hedge plants that are slowly growing. Someday they will form a barrier so the dust won't come over from the road and people won't be able to see thru them. My luck, they'll finally grow tall enough when I die, then my son will cut them down so he can see the road. LOL
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Well, we're only on 4.5 acres, just north of a really little town and our nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile away and can't be seen when the corn's up the end of summer every other year. But they're good neighbors. It's nice, but too close to town or too close to the road to town from the interstate, which is right off our driveway. I don't dare walk with my kids on that road and it's not even that busy, but busy enough to just do the 1/4 mile driveway back and forth.
With a stroller and a toddler and a dog, I'd just as soon live in town for little walks and mud-free convenience, but walks aren't everything.
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10/27/07, 05:54 PM
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I would find it tough to find complete solitude in the US outside of some of the mountain states. I think its due to how fast information/and people can travel. In a good day, a person can travel 1000miles by automobile. Back in the old days, that trip would take a long time. Maybe once are kids are grown, and the rich are jet setting it up in their corn fueled jets and hummers in Dubai, the rest of us can have our slow paced life back. Until then, this image gives the best of idea of where TRUE solitude can be found.
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10/27/07, 05:55 PM
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Private enough is when you have to have your own tomcat or your pussy cat won't have kittens. Just give me a little house by the side of the road where I can sit on the front porch and wave as the rest of the world passes by.
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All we can do is try. A couple of weeks back, I was walking around the back 40 which is really the back 5 and found my self waving to my neighbor which lives about a mile away, which he wasn't home he was hovering over the back 5 in a helicopter. We can run but we can't hide,just have to be content with what little privacy we have I guess. 
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10/27/07, 07:18 PM
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Part II of the ? Is privacy/seclusion addictive?
You all make good points. Compared to the status quo, we have a really private place. The road our woods is "off" of is a small gravel road that dead ends a short distance from our driveway. When we moved to this community 12 years ago, you couldn't find it on a map. Even the county map! Even the "main" road was gravel and nobody wanted to travel it because it was so bad. The county black topped the main road and then people from PA and FL and MI came moving in around here. Now you can see their lights through the woods when the leaves start to fall. It used to be pitch black except for the stars or the moon. Progress they say??
Alaska is intriguing to me, but I'm really a Tennessee girl born and bred. Can't imagine living anywhere that doesn't have mountains, trees & some real warm weather.
So...do you think that privacy/seclusion is addictive? The more you have, the more you want?
Oh, and Wind in her Hair, I have to agree with CabinFever, Jackie does know everything!!!
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I think on 66 acres, you can live with a few stray noises.
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10/27/07, 08:23 PM
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In some ways privacy is a state of mind. We only have 10 acres, but my DH walked outside in nothing but sandals last night and no one was the wiser I would prefer to not hear my neighbor down the road's little yappy dogs barking in the afternoons. But, even that I have tuned out for the most part.
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most of my neighbors own all the land and have houses far off in the distance.
well, most of em.
I have one that needs a the backhoe and lime therapy and the other is busy flip flipping his new investment.
I might need more lime.
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We have almost seven acres with very little privacy with neighbors in spitting distance on either side , nothing directly in front except a public road, nothing but 100 undeveloped acres directly behind us which is landlocked (no access - somebody goofed somewhere). My dream (when we win the lottery) is 1000 acres with a house smack dab in the middle . Maybe then we'll have privacy and peace of mind....
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I have 100 acres, can't see any of my neighbours, heavily wooded. I built 100 feet off the road, but it's very quiet. Only about 3 cars go by per day, less in the winter. I do wish that I had built across the creek then the house would have been 1/2 mile off the road, but then it would have been a lot more expensive. Chris
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i have 4 acres home place (we farm several 100 at DH's dad's place) on a gravel road less than a 1/2 mile from the rural church and paved road 10 miles from the nearest town, 5 miles off the interstate- they built a housing development 2 miles to the east of me -15 expensive houses on small yards and traffic is getting heavier (not too bad - most of the townies don't come past the house) its just the farm traffic this time of year.
we love our spot - people are good neighbors especially when we had a horrible winter ice storm last year and tornadoes in the past.
 The neighbors I wish we could do the backhoe/lime treatment to is the pigs. Investors build these buildings on good farm land, place 1000's of pigs in little buildings on the hill tops, spread manure several times a year - no they don't till it in either. It ruins a good day, can't hang laundry, can't leave windows open to catch a cool breeze, can't even let the rabbits have a window open -their fur gets stinky...
no amount of land keeps these neighbors from bothering you...
sorry for ranting
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10/28/07, 10:19 AM
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Backwoods, the picture of your driveway through the woods could be ours right up to the curve in the road.
we are up a steep drive with two major curves and the house is set on the side of the hill with more than 400 acres of woods surrounding us on three sides and the river valley below on the fourth side.
most people in town have no idea the house is even up here and I like it that way.
we are close enough to town for my husband (who is a social people person) and private and secluded enough for me (who has hermit tendencies).
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10/28/07, 02:25 PM
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CN... you never can have too much lime!
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10/28/07, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Autumngrey
I don't know the answer to your question. I know that sound travels so much more in the woods/country.
i dont have land yet, but was looking at 54 acres.... I would want to live a mile in, at least. I want to be remote and to have a lot of people *give up*, thinking it's not a road at all...
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check this one out 300 acres with a 7 acre lake
http://www.jswalls.com/snow_hill_llc.htm
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