Any advice on what I need to know about country living/owning property?

Buy all the land you can even if it means downsizing your homes square footage. Watch out for future state project where you could be affected. If you buy on a non highway funded road look for an association to cover road maintenance. This is a big one....

At one time I had a house on a knoll and nobody could ever get near me. Now that I have had the privilege of living beside a rental property and a POS renter and a true slumlord I wish you well with owning a chunk of land so as not to be bothered by crappy people.

JW