I'm currently renting a little cottage on a farm and got informed that the council is thinking about deciding that my landlord is not allowed to have so many houses on his land (3 - there's me, there's a small family, and him, about 100m apart from each other). So I'm thinking where to move to if my lease doesn't get renewed because the council will make him tear down my house. The places around here are stupidly expensive (hobby farms with massive mansions on them within 30 minutes of the city, my landlord is one of the last true farmers), so I couldn't afford to stay, but I don't want to move into the city either. I like having no neighbours except horses, cows, sheep, echidnas, rabbits and kangaroos. I found 2 blocks of land near each other 20 minutes further away that are quite affordable. I could probably get a demountable or kit house & the block and be able to afford it. One is 4 or 5 acres, but it is narrow and mostly covered in scraggly trees that I imagine would be a pain to remove. The ground is full of lumps and bumps and rises and falls. The other is quite little (bit over half an acre) and flat and clear and there is no risk of getting any close neighbours because it is an island in the middle of about 4 acres of Crown land. The big one only costs 50% more than the little one but has 8 times as much space. But kind of useless space. And there's the possibility of leasing the Crown land anyway, which would be almost as good as owning it. Both properties back onto a disused railway line which is kind of cool (the reason they are narrow I guess, no one can own the land around the railway line so that makes an automatic boundary) and when I visited the area on Wednesday I'm sure I saw one of those lever tram things lying by the side of it! But I couldn't get there to have a closer look because of the barbed wire fence that ran along the length of the line about 50m away from it. I almost want to definitely buy one of these blocks if only so I can explore the tracks properly!
Anyway, not that you guys probably care at all but do you have any opinion?
Anyway, not that you guys probably care at all but do you have any opinion?