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We lived in country, hour west of DC for a few years...miss until this day. (grew up inside beltway)Since having kids, we lived in suburbs. We have been looking at property, 3-10 acres (I'd go more but being 52, decided 40 acres may be too much to take care of !! Although riding around on tractor not tough, have before)
There are plenty of cities you can live 30 minutes or so from, be out in nowhere, back to malls, Dr's, restaurants well under 30 minutes.
You can here in Richmond, Charlottesville (job market tougher) etc. You avoid the madness of traffic and chaos, and pick and choose when you get it.
AND if something goes nuts, sitting out on well with whole house generator, makes things nice.
There are some solid "rural" counties in Virginia with good schools, some bad too, not sure on other states.
"More trees, less people" - world is not going to get nicer...
Good luck
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