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Whats it like living on acreage in the US?
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Date: July 6th, 2026 4:22 PM Author: 180 useless brakes How frequent are break ins etc? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982073) |
Date: July 6th, 2026 4:32 PM Author: Silver Station It’s great overall. A bit annoyingly expensive to maintain.
And we’ve had one (1) break-in over 15 years. It was to my in-laws place while they were traveling, making it look like their house was empty for months. No car in the driveway. No lights on at night. We’ve since added cameras, timer lights, and an alarm system (including driveway alarm). Aggravatingly nothing of value was taken because there’s no jewelry or firearms at their house, which is clearly all the thieves were looking for. So all the expense of a broken picture window for nothing. The thieves were later arrested for a string of break-ins during summer beach season. They were illegals who worked on a landscaping crew so they knew which houses were empty. |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 4:45 PM Author: 180 useless brakes Send those fuckers back to Chile and shit. I have just bought 6 hectares on elevated land.
How much of the natural environment did you clear out? |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 4:50 PM Author: Silver Station We pieced together our little family compound over time. It’s three properties and houses summing to a bit over 20 acres. I was first, then we added my parents next door, then my brother a few years later. But because of all of this there are largish suburban yards carved out with moderate forested set-backs from the road and between each house.
I’ve also got a ROFR with the curmudgeonly neighbor to buy his ~50 acres when he’s ready to sell. Trying to make this into a permanent home base for all my kids. |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:06 PM Author: 180 useless brakes Fucking 180 bro.
There's a large creek behind my new property full of duck billed platypus.
Do you plant lines of trees for provacy and shit? |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: 180 useless brakes I don't want to totally furk this place up by ruining the bush. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982159) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:11 PM Author: 180 useless brakes Do you use big well known contractors for building and extension or just private contractors? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982166) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 6:19 PM Author: Silver Station We use local family-owned contractors but haven’t had to do many major work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982302) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 9:32 PM Author: 180 useless brakes I want to build another home plus extend the current property (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982890) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 10:46 PM Author: Silver Station All it takes is time, money, and a tiny bit of your sanity. 10/10, would Rural Compoundmo again! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49983149) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:10 PM Author: alcoholic cowardly newt sound barrier I have 2 acres of Land, juuuuuuuust sayin’. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982162) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:11 PM Author: 180 useless brakes 180 bro who did the building? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982163) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:12 PM Author: alcoholic cowardly newt sound barrier Idk it was built in the 70s iirc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982168) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:31 PM Author: 180 useless brakes And hasn't needed any renovation? Is it made of asbestos insulation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982200) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:32 PM Author: alcoholic cowardly newt sound barrier I've done some work on it since 2021, eventually I will reside and insulate but its fine afaict. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982203) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:37 PM Author: 180 useless brakes So you aren't living there currently? Whats the climate and terrain like there? It storms HARD here in the summer so I will need to work on the slope especially in the goat enclosure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982208) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:41 PM Author: alcoholic cowardly newt sound barrier I live here full time, it's New England gray and miserable just how I like it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982211) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:49 PM Author: 180 useless brakes 180 bro. Would you move to Tasmania and live in Grindelwald? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982227) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 6:02 PM Author: alcoholic cowardly newt sound barrier honestly I could live in the basement of an underwater shopping mall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982258) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 9:30 PM Author: 180 useless brakes DESCRIBE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982885) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:11 PM Author: hairraiser tantric hell if you don't have views and water (ideally flowing water) it's not worth it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982165) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:11 PM Author: 180 useless brakes I am in Guanaba bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982167) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:12 PM Author: hairraiser tantric hell are you a doctor? won't it take a long time to get to work? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982171) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:22 PM Author: 180 useless brakes It's 400 metres from the turnabout to Maudsland and another 5 minutes into Oxenford/Hope Island, so no. Thats what makes Guanaba so 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982187) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:14 PM Author: Vigorous hominid internal respiration Getting paid to grow 80 acres of giant miscanthus for research project (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982175) |
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Date: July 6th, 2026 5:22 PM Author: 180 useless brakes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880138&forum_id=2...id.#49982188) |