I am a bit in the middle. Rural agricultural area that once was verrrry rural and verrry agricultural, now there are just shadows of ag (except cattle and hay) and the rural-well everyone keeps just buying up the old pastures and farmland and building so people get a little closer all the time. There is also a massive developer that is taking over large swaths of land here and putting in ‘perfect suburban villages for retirees’ who aren’t from here. Now it isn’t in our area yet but it will be in the next decade or so and that is truly painful for me as my family has been on this acreage for over a hundred years.
That being said, a lot of our neighbors are distantly related and we have long term trusted relationships with them-even the ones we may not be super fond of, weirdly enough. However, there are newcomers who are from a more urban background who are straight up assy and complain about our cows looking over their fence and they try to spray weedkiller for every weed(You are in the woods, man, there are going to be weeds!)and try to trap the local raccoons and squirrels because…’ewww animals’. Those people just…confuse me. However, in the grand scheme I think we are in an ‘ok’ situation in terms of the people around us. Could be better, could be worse.
