Confidence and assertiveness are always far sexier than mere appearances.
Land does a lot of things. When we first moved up here the big thing was Steve had plenty of room to store all of the equipment he brought from California. There was and still is a lot of it. And we save money by not paying for storing it somewhere else.
Don't I know it.
Part of my criteria is to find the right place with a good amount of infrastructure already in place. One big one over tight wire and dependable water source is going to be a big-ass polebarn, ideally with a living quarters of some kind in it. Mainly for storage of vehicles and equipment but so very much else. Perfect world would be one with a large at least partial wrap around mezzanine with enough square footage for all the storage and then various bays for different types of equipment or back up parts or motors or pallets of this supply or that material under the mezzanine.
it is a topic my future wife will have to learn to embrace as it is something I brainstorm about regularly and am always wanting to bounce ideas off others for feedback. Then that goes for pretty much all of the ranch/farm/homestead concept.
Happily my wife also enjoys the topic and enjoys my tangents and facinations.
If you have land you can do lots of things simply because you have room. Like maybe you do charter buses? Now you have a place to store them and work on them.
Don't I know it.
walk with me for a moment as I show you round my boyhood shooting range that intend to recreate.
it started out as a dry dirt 1/2'ish acre stock tank with about 10ft berm running in a circle.
I could shoot in any direction and not have to worry. Mainly it was targets set up on old metal drums I had set up here and there and entirely too many old cola cans blown to smithereens for it to be aesthetically pleasing bit it was was amazing to a 12 year old boy.
What I will do in future with a (U or maybe an S shap as I no longer live in a desert and don't wish to inadvertently create a stock tank in this instance) similar arrangement is build the closest I can to a full sized version of a carnival shooting gallery as I can manage with reactive targets. That and a nice three gun course naturally.
Now to track down a girl who would gets how delightful woman look all rigged up
Or maybe you have an airplane and can fly off a dirt strip instead of paying for storage and landing fees somewhere else.
please don't tempt me. I will get myself in enough trouble in my war era jeep.
Before I was a dad, I was very much the guy to get a wild hair and build a ultralight or buy an older than dirt Cessna and figure I can just figure it out.
With wife and child though
All sorts of things you can do if you simply have room to do them. Ranching and farming are just the start of what you can do with land.
So many potential side gigs you can do as well...one of which I will tell you about personally later as it might be something your family might consider as well. Good money to be made.
I am looking forward in large part to kids having the opportunity to run amuck on the land and enjoy themselves in a way that is just can't be done in the city or suburbs