#1. Nailed it! Our land is the 7th best in the world, per National Geographic survey.

#2.This is one thing I really miss, having water flowing. We do have the swamp, but that hardly qualifies.

#3. when we bought this land it was VERY reasonable. 6 months later the value had gone through the roof with the building boom of the 80's.

#4. There are lots of conventional farmers around here, but when we bought in 1983, no homesteaders at all...

#5. new England had a lack of natural disasters when we bought. But in the last few years, the climate has changed so much we have tornadoes every year now!

#6. Fortunately, the nearest one was shut down several years ago...

I do wish we had water.....