Lynnie, I live in a small village on a private lane with 8 houses. No traffic and can look out my living room window on the community park. I am 9 miles from anywhere in any direction. I love it. I have a third of an acre, all fenced in. Just enough yard for me and my Great Dane. The small ranch was added onto some years before I bought it, so I have a large 2 car garage with my bedroom suite above it. I have my longarm in the living room and my sewing studio in the finished basement. I have the front yard as mostly perennial garden, part shade garden and part sun garden. I have wonderful neighbors who are also retired, so it is perfect. My kids all live within 10 minutes of me. DD has a 140 acre farm with a house built in 1790. George Washington peed on the trees on his march from Gettysburg to Valley Forge. LOL I love it out here in the sticks, used to live in a suburban development and hated it. I am a country girl at heart.