Slashy,
I spend a lot of time on Zillow looking for a secluded place too. Coco and I live in the city, not far outside of Seattle, but we build fences and grow trees all around us so as to make our yard as private as possible. We also have a small house out on the coast, where we spend a lot of time listening to the ocean surf and not much else. It's not terribly secluded, but it's in a quiet community where most homes are empty vacation homes, so it's very quiet and, again, we plant trees and build sheds strategically to block views from neighbors. Currently it's illegal to rent homes near us for weekend partiers, but if that changes, I'll demand we sell the house. When I go to the beach, I like to stay for 3 weeks at a time, several times a year. I try to spend 40% of my life there.
Coco won't consider moving out of either home, so my Zillow searches for secluded homes on 10+ acre wooded lots are just me pretending to be in the market. When I get really stressed, I do Zillow searches the way other guys do porn. I call it my real estate porn. I can't have the houses, but I can sit and pretend I can buy them. Sadly, with Coco's love of living in town, there is no acreage in my foreseeable future.
I will, instead live vicariously through you and your GF, hoping you find a fantastic, secluded acreage with a good house on it so you can breathe. I agree, that when I feel alone, I can breathe better. Nobody judges me when nobody can see me or hear me.
Good luck, and I'm jealous (in a good way).
I spend a lot of time on Zillow looking for a secluded place too. Coco and I live in the city, not far outside of Seattle, but we build fences and grow trees all around us so as to make our yard as private as possible. We also have a small house out on the coast, where we spend a lot of time listening to the ocean surf and not much else. It's not terribly secluded, but it's in a quiet community where most homes are empty vacation homes, so it's very quiet and, again, we plant trees and build sheds strategically to block views from neighbors. Currently it's illegal to rent homes near us for weekend partiers, but if that changes, I'll demand we sell the house. When I go to the beach, I like to stay for 3 weeks at a time, several times a year. I try to spend 40% of my life there.
Coco won't consider moving out of either home, so my Zillow searches for secluded homes on 10+ acre wooded lots are just me pretending to be in the market. When I get really stressed, I do Zillow searches the way other guys do porn. I call it my real estate porn. I can't have the houses, but I can sit and pretend I can buy them. Sadly, with Coco's love of living in town, there is no acreage in my foreseeable future.
I will, instead live vicariously through you and your GF, hoping you find a fantastic, secluded acreage with a good house on it so you can breathe. I agree, that when I feel alone, I can breathe better. Nobody judges me when nobody can see me or hear me.
Good luck, and I'm jealous (in a good way).