Living in my house 45 years…. We insisted on at least 5 acres and a quiet setting When we moved here from Vermont. Remember this is NJ and a proctologists dream (as they say) population is the most of any state without wide open land spaces Unless you’re way south. In 1975 we found a place on 7 acres in the middle of the woods on a dirt road and surrounded by several hundred wooded acres.
the area has grown multiples of times and a 6 lane state roadway is 1 mile as the crow flies through the woods. The 54 acres 1000 feet away was for sale in 1977 for $48,000 and the 10 acres next to me came up for sale in the late ‘80s for $40,000. building this isolation zone is my dream but I never had the extra cash to support those plans. I was never one to be mowing the lawn and waving to my neighbor…I could , but prefer no to.
having lived here exactly as we’d planned on … and in a rural zone …I still wait for the other shoe to drop as growth still moves faster than I can keep up with. I am finally retiring next spring…I’ll be 71. This is a motivator for us moving…. This development is not stopping anytime soon. The biggest fault in moving is the new polebarn…our age and no family elsewhere when the inevitable happens for either of us.
saddly, things do not stay the same and change is inevitable…. I am still pulling for you Michael. Since it seems like a coin toss, 50/50 here or there….I wish you my best optimistic luck
the area has grown multiples of times and a 6 lane state roadway is 1 mile as the crow flies through the woods. The 54 acres 1000 feet away was for sale in 1977 for $48,000 and the 10 acres next to me came up for sale in the late ‘80s for $40,000. building this isolation zone is my dream but I never had the extra cash to support those plans. I was never one to be mowing the lawn and waving to my neighbor…I could , but prefer no to.
having lived here exactly as we’d planned on … and in a rural zone …I still wait for the other shoe to drop as growth still moves faster than I can keep up with. I am finally retiring next spring…I’ll be 71. This is a motivator for us moving…. This development is not stopping anytime soon. The biggest fault in moving is the new polebarn…our age and no family elsewhere when the inevitable happens for either of us.
saddly, things do not stay the same and change is inevitable…. I am still pulling for you Michael. Since it seems like a coin toss, 50/50 here or there….I wish you my best optimistic luck