Most countrysides look somewhat like that. At least the one i was forced to grow up in. Sure, there are lots of plants but nevertheless the land is ecologically dead because there’s only a few species (mostly 3 different subspecies of corn). Sure there are some trees but i think the trees feel as lonely as i did when i lived there.
If you want to live in nature, go to the mountains or some place that has large bodies of water nearby (lakes, rivers, ocean). That’s where the actual life is.
It’s because of a mixture of landscape reasons. Large flat areas are attractive to farming, so that’s what’s being done. On the other side, mountains are unattractive for that because the big machines can’t drive over uneven soil. Similarly, large waters host a ton of biodiversity because water is the origin of all life, and you can really feel that. Just give it a try.
Have you priced places near bodies of water and mountains? Out of my paygrade
Dead cheap where I live. Nobody wants to have to drive 30 km of hairpins to get to the nearest supermarket.
Bodies of water? Sure, that land can be pricy, although not in every case.
Mountains? Nah those areas are usually pretty inexpensive, at least in the US. Appalachia being a prime example.
That’s because it’s Appalachia. Try Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Montana
It’s mainly because of the ski resorts afaik. But yes, that’s fair.
In all fairness, there is a reason that Appalachian land is cheap, and that is that setting aside your neighbors, the geographic disadvantages are pretty bad for farming and development.
Absolutely. That’s true for mountainous regions in general. Lack of navigable rivers, difficulty of transportation, lack of farmable land, harsh climate, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_people
In the modern world we have developed technology to mitigate these issues so you have some exceptions, like the Alps and the Rockies to some extent. But historically, wealth was always concentrated in the coastal and agriculturally productive regions.
Yep I realized there is a mountainous county in my state with only ~3,000 people, that is appealing to me. But I doubt there is internet and you are probably 1+ hours from a grocery store.
Nah, you’ll probably have Internet, and the closest grocery store in a lot of places is like 20-30 min away. But mobile towers are pretty spotty, the closest grocery is going to be expensive (if it isn’t something like a dollar general, which is also pricey), and the roads will be outright dangerous in some areas. There is a reason land in west Virginia and rural mountains of NC, VA, AND TN can be soo cheap.
Yeah me too, unless want to live out of a van.
Booooooo
But if you do get a decent amount of land in the country side like this, you can do alot of landscaping and turn it into something pretty.
I grew up surrounded by farmland, but we had wide variety of trees, grasses, and plants on our particular plot of land
