How many acres do you own?

[BoFuller]

We bought 40 acres (mostly wooded) and built our retirement home there. When the 40 in front of us came on the market, we snapped it up. 80 gives nice privacy.

 

[masseyrider]

I have less than 10 acres beside the Welland canal. I can see the hustle and bustle on the city side side but I'm on the rural side. Ten minutes from shopping, Walmart, Kanuckistan Tire, grocery, Muckdonalds and on and on. I can watch deer, turkeys and a whole guantlet of wild critters come through my yard.
When I first moved here the dogs I had had issue with the cars on the other side. They would bark like we were being invaded. They didn't know what to make of the boats.

 

[mapper]

About 5.5 acres, enough for privacy and to play with. Retired so we do a bit of gardening and donate what pasture hay we get to a hooved animal rescue charity.
Wouldn't mind having a bit more but the land prices around us have become nuts, about 40k/acre per assessment, so that's not going to be happening!

 

[JasperFrank]

After our last ice storm, 20 ac, is all I can handle . Its going to take two years to get back to where we were on an 8 hour work day. I'm getting sort of sick of shagging all these branches to burn piles. But it is still better then working for someone else. Even with the hail and the rain.

 

[garry1p]

Total 109 acres.
I live on 41 and of that I maintain around 18 acres of grassland the rest hard wood full of trails for grand kids when visiting riding around in a JD Gator..
The rest is not adjacent and about a mile away of that 30 rented out and farmed for soybeans the rest mixed pines and hard wood.

 

[bcjmmac]

85ish. Typical Acadian lot - thin (450’ wide) and long (over mile deep). Old farm that was split into our section & couple of water lots on river. They are across the road.
Built about 500’ in for privacy & primarily use a few acres lose to house - gardens, build a large pond, etc.
Farm wasn’t being used. I maintain trails, couple of open areas & cut my own firewood.
Lots of wildlife - deer, moose, bobcat, fox, rabbits, porcupines, bear, beaver, eagles.....
About 20 minutes to town, 1.5 hours to either of our kids & their families

 

[Rockbadchild]

It seem like kids who grew up in rural areas want to go back to it once they experience the city, it is hard to forget that privacy and freedom ... I grew up on this land, both my grand father owned this land at one time.... Now my future kids will grow up on it, all I can hope for is one day they will own it as well but we will see what the future holds. I have never felt so complete or felt such a sense of peace and accomplishment then working on this land. If someone lost their ways and is looking for meaning buying land is my recommendation.

 

[Traderdell]

56 acres total. 5 acres of lawn and barn, 22 workable that we rent to a neighboring dairy farmer, 1 acre pond with the rest mixed hardwood.

 

[Oaktree]

I call it county grass

My wife's term is north country green. Pretty much what our "lawn" is. Fine with both of us.

 

[Oaktree]

It seem like kids who grew up in rural areas want to go back to it once they experience the city, it is hard to forget that privacy and freedom ... I grew up on this land, both my grand father owned this land at one time.... Now my future kids will grow up on it, all I can hope for is one day they will own it as well but we will see what the future holds. I have never felt so complete or felt such a sense of peace and accomplishment then working on this land. If someone lost their ways and is looking for meaning buying land is my recommendation.

That's cool. Never had the experience of property that's been in the family for generations. Agree that owning property is very "settling" (for lack of a better word). I'm never bored, always something to do, sometimes even have the ambition to do it.