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Old 07-10-2009, 07:30 PM
 
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imlookinf for rural/ agricultural land (cheap land), that is totally away from the city/subs/people, where its totally silent and darkat night, and you ahve the freedom to be lound in day and have the space/privacy to do w/e you want... what about overall freeist county/area in the state? thanks a lot...im looking for overall FREEDOM/privacy....but dont wanna freeze in alaska...thank s for suggestionl...


ps(may be looking to hookup RV/camper, or even build a metal arc building in future)
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Old 07-10-2009, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Alabama
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You could try Suwannee, Lafayette, or Liberty counties. Though I do believe all of them are dry counties, but as far as seclusion, you can't beat them.
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Old 07-11-2009, 01:03 AM
 
Location: Gary, WV & Springfield, ME
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Many counties have patches of areas that are as you describe. So many fast growing trees and plants can be planted to buffer noise pollution out of your world even if you live beside a multi-interstate junction. I know of a family who planted bamboo very heavily on their property boundaries and although even I could have thrown a tennis ball to the overhead interstate, there was no traffic noise - all cut out by the buffering bunches of bamboo. And ther bamboo was so thick, not even a fox would be able to penetrate through it.

You can make your own privacy in the world, as long as you know how and what to plant.
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Old 07-11-2009, 03:03 PM
 
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imlookinf for rural/ agricultural land (cheap land), that is totally away from the city/subs/people, where its totally silent and darkat night, and you ahve the freedom to be lound in day and have the space/privacy to do w/e you want... what about overall freeist county/area in the state? thanks a lot...im looking for overall FREEDOM/privacy....but dont wanna freeze in alaska...thank s for suggestionl...


ps(may be looking to hookup RV/camper, or even build a metal arc building in future)
These were some of my criteria I had when moving to Florida . I wanted a place in the woods where i could study the stars thru my 200 power astronomical Binoculars , make noise, and act like a Hooligan if i wanted to. I ended up in Holt, Fl....a little bitty town just west of Crestview on I-10. Its in Okaloosa County. Im sure there are still more remote places than what i have, but, it meets all of my needs and is so dirt cheap to live here it makes me smile all the time : $500 per year Property taxes for a 1400 sq. ft. Mobile Home on an acre of thick wooded land. My nearest neighbors house is almost 1,000 ' thru the woods. When he gets real drunk each Friday night, i sit outside and listen to him singing cowboy songs for a couple hours -- cheap entertainment .

If i were you and didnt need a house (just land), Id go to www.trulia.com and look at their many listings for land for sale in very remote parts of the Florida Panhandle ; I suspect you could easily pick up a half acre for about $5-7,000 max. if its remote.
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Old 07-11-2009, 04:06 PM
 
Location: Sandy Springs, GA
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Just follow Interstate 10 from Pensacola to Jacksonville. I pass "land for sale" signs all the time and most of what I've seen is in the middle of nowhere. Could be dirt cheap.
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Old 07-11-2009, 04:31 PM
 
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thanks for the tips...
...any places that would be around 1hr from Orlando..? or inbetweern both orlando/tampa...like that area s.w. of groveland? idk what county its in, theere's no city around it./between polk/lake...
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Old 07-11-2009, 07:06 PM
 
Location: Tampa
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Hendry, Glades, or Okeechobee in South Florida. Taylor, Suwannee, Dixie, Lafayette, Wakulla, Liberty, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Washington, or Holmes in North Florida.
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Old 07-11-2009, 07:12 PM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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How about Kenansville? It a little more than an hour south of Orlando. That could really work for you.

Kenansville, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 07-11-2009, 10:00 PM
 
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imlookinf for rural/ agricultural land (cheap land), that is totally away from the city/subs/people, where its totally silent and darkat night, and you ahve the freedom to be lound in day and have the space/privacy to do w/e you want... what about overall freeist county/area in the state? thanks a lot...im looking for overall FREEDOM/privacy....but dont wanna freeze in alaska...thank s for suggestionl...


ps(may be looking to hookup RV/camper, or even build a metal arc building in future)
Honestly, there are areas in EVERY county in the state that could be described like this. Even the generally crowded Miami-Dade County has many rural areas where you can obtain land away from the city lights. Overall though, I think the Florida heartland counties would work best, followed by the panhandle.
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Old 07-12-2009, 07:43 AM
 
Location: Niceville, FL
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One area where the libertarians have a quibble with Florida is that it does have relatively tough statewide building codes for both coastal and inland areas. This is for both site-built homes and for new mobile/manufactured homes.

Which is understandable considering the state's large dense urban population and tendency toward natural disasters. If you look at damage pictures from Hurricane Charley, there's a world of difference between what happens to a 1980s doublewide and a properly tied down mobile home built to post-Andrew HUD standards for coastal zones.
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