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If you buy a wooded lot, you don't need a 1/2 mile separation from your neighbor. A few hundred feet of wooded distance will make your neighbor invisible (maybe not as much in winter unless you have a lot of pine/spruce trees)
There are plenty of homes on 20+ acres in Sullivan and Grafton Counties for sale, but hardly any for rent. If you could find a house that's been on the market for a long time with no offers, perhaps you could persuade the owner to lease the house with an option to buy. But I doubt it.
NH can be an expensive place to retire or to rent a house, in part because so much funding comes from property tax and so little comes from income/interest/dividends taxes. You might look at retiring to Maine instead of NH?
Yes, NH housing is generally cheaper the farther north one goes. As a general rule, once you get far enough from the MA border or from major highways such that the area is no longer attractive for commuters (especially workers commuting to Massachusetts), prices drop significantly. OTOH, you don't need to get very far into the boonies for words like "populated, busy, noisy, no privacy" to become inapplicable.
I see a fair number of houses for rent in S.NH, more so as summer approaches. These would be on 1-2 acre wooded lots, not 20+ acres, but as mentioned, all you need is 2 acres and sufficient evergreens and your neighbors become invisible. I only know they are there from the small caliber target practice on a sunny weekend morning like today or when I hear their generator kick on.
I agree with all of the statements above. Further north = more rural and generally cheaper rents. We are on just over 13 acres and can't see any of our neighbors due to all of the woods. I've never heard any generators, but I do hear them shooting in the woods on occasion, and I think it's a fair ways off.
I found the rental market in NH a bit challenging, but if you are not limiting by proximity to employment, you might find more options. I thought the rental prices rather high compared to where we had moved from, but then again I was just looking at rentals in our old town in Washington for a family member and couldn't believe how much they had jumped in the past couple of years! Craigslist is a decent place to start. Dartmouth Hitchcock also has a real estate website where rentals in the Upper Valley area are listed (although anything in close proximity to Hanover tends to be pricey).
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High property taxes == expensive house rentals
