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

Let me give you some more
So far as "way out" Mom and Dad's place was once a mile out of town. Then they moved the city limits, and it's "a few hundred feet" maybe 1/4 mile I don't remember, There's a local private water system, which that property likely could not access.

BUT WORSE!!! My aunt/ cousin (she moved in to take care of her aging Mom) lives "around the corner and up the hill) above the cemetary on a hill. The city has limits surrounding the cemetary and up and down the road. So they are in the "city impact area." What does that mean, even in supposed "conservative" Idaho? it means, on her 5 acres, THEY WONT ALLOW her to build a barn and have her horse!!!! This is the CITY telling someone OUT OF the limits what they cannot do!!! So check out that sort of thing. See if the local city has eyes to expand, etc. Find out about city codes.

Recently I got a "free boat." That is a story all in itself. The guy who had it, got into trouble with the local county because he has (gag cough) TWO whole ocean shipping containers. YOU CAN'T HAVE MORE THAN ONE!!!! Unless, you build walls around it and a roof over "them" to make it/ them look like a building. This is FARM land, folks. You know....barns, fences, cows, cow **** and old tractors and machinery. But Got forbid you have TWO storage cans!!!

Check it out-----then move OUT of CA