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

Septic is probably OK, but see in the county records for what number of bedrooms the septic is designed. Sometiesm folks will pay for a 3 BR septic and then add bedrooms. Not a disaster but you don't want to be selling the house later as a 4 BR and find it has a 3 BR septic. Pump the tank to examine as part of the pre-buying inspection.

that's something I ran into when we bought our house a few years ago
we did the inspection and found the septic system wasn't up to code

after doing some digging (paper wise, not in the yard) we found that the code was changed after the septic was originally put in
so that's something to look for aswell