Poll - How much land is your residence on?

[creekland]

I'm curious - why else do a poll? Whether you rent or own doesn't matter, but, as the poll says, how much land do you, specifically your household live on - no shared common areas unless still in the family (parents, in-laws, etc)?

 

Poll coming up.

[Country Mouse]

We have almost 2 acres.

[thescrappyhomeschooler]

We have about .3 acre in land, but our lot is unusual in our neighborhood. We have a side lot that no one else has on our street.

[Chris in VA]

Rather unique situation here. We live in the rectory of our church, which sits on 40 acres. 20 of it is developed, with the graveyard/parking/picnic area/outdoor chapel area, rectory, church and parish hall. 20 of it is just woods.

[vettechmomof2]

We have almost 10 acres.

[Tree House Academy]

60 acres.

[choirfarm]

Nearly 50 acres. We nearly bought the house just across the street as a potential in law house as I'm guessing we will be housing relatives. ( Already did with my dad before he died) Decided against it, but are remodeling part of our house and part of it will be more accessible for wheelchairs and people that can't get around well.

 

Christine

[laughing lioness]

10 acres. We lease out almost 4. Bordered by a river, in a valley with just our big old house in it.

[LifeLovePassion]

Just about an acre, in an outer ring suburb to Minneapolis, MN. Hope to move out further someday.

[kokotg]

I put 1-3 acres, but it's pretty much exactly an acre...I think it's 1.01 acres. We're in a small subdivision with all 1-2 acre lots. All heavily wooded.

[The Girls' Mom]

Less than 1/4 acre, and 3/4 of the back is concrete..lol. But we live in the city.

[Parrothead]

We are in town. I have more house than land.

[Lady Florida.]

Just over 3/4 of an acre. The house dh owned when I met him was on 4-1/2 acres, surrounded by a nature preserve on 3 sides. Once ds was born and I quit work, we could no longer afford the mortgage and property taxes so we downsized. We now have much less property to be taxed on, and the house itself is almost exactly half the size of our other house.

[nono]

Our land is quite small. The entire lot size (which our house takes up much of) is 36 feet by 105 feet. We live in a city and it's pretty typical around here. Thankfully we have a very nice huge park just up the street.

 

Very similar here. 50 x 100. And that's a big lot around here. ;)

[MaMa2005]

We are right at an acre with our back property line being a beautiful creek. We are in a small subdivision with lots of old growth dense trees. The developer only cut down enough trees to get the homes on the lots :D. Very unusual around here.

[C_l_e_0..Q_c]

10,000 sq ft? How much is that in acres? I am clueless

 

I found an online converter...

Edited April 14, 2011 by CleoQc

[Wheres Toto]

We are on .96 acres. More than 1/2 of it is a slope down to a river and very wooded.

 

There's a 52 acre property for sale up the road from us. It's going for $1.5 million. It's Green Acres land so can't be developed.

[Cinder]

We're on 3/4 acre in a subdivision. Dh wanted as much space as possible--he grew up in the country. We had previously had 8 acres in the country but had to move because of a job change. I miss the space.

[Dobela]

2.63 acres. We moved here in the fall from a small city lot. Loving it! We are on a dead end street, all the neighbors have at least 2 acres. The first neighborhood outside of the city limits so we are still close to everything.

[FaithManor]

We are just missing an acre by about 20 feet. We've got 42,460 square feet and an acre is about 43,500 SQ.FT. We have sugar maples, a couple of oaks, two stubborn apple trees that I planted two years ago and refuse to grow, and a really nice pine tree plus lilac bushes. The trees border the property on three sides, yet the center of the property 3/4 of the land, is nice and sunny for gardening.

 

My parents have almost exactly five acres and they are two blocks from here. They are beginning to hobby farm on their acreage along with us. They've doubled the garden size for this year (our plot is being put to beets and oats for pigs and no veggies for people - mom and dad are handling that). We've got the chickens here, but will rotate them down there as well. The ducks are here, but we've got some brush down there to clear for planting blueberry bushes so there is the possibility of a couple of goats being placed on their property to help clear that area and then we'll sell them.

 

Faith

[LidiyaDawn]

I have no idea in terms of measurement, but considering that we don't have a front yard at all (the door opens into the driveway basically) and the backyard is a small fenced area of concrete just big enough for a shed and a picnic table… I voted "less than 1/4 acre". (we rent)

[Jeannie in NJ]

we live on an island with a big house but a small yard with no trees in back yard. We are looking to move to an area with wooded lots of 1-3 acres.

[Rivka]

We live in a city rowhouse. We're the envy of all our neighbors, because we have a 15X15 garden in front of our house.

[happypamama]

We have around 2.5 - 3 acres, and the township doesn't allow anything smaller than that, so it seems even bigger, as it's surrounded by lots of open space. DH would like to have a larger, more secluded, wooded lot, but we like this much better than when we lived in a neighborhood with 1/4 acre lots and the neighbors right on top of us.

[JFSinIL]

The lot sizes here are 50' x 150'. I have never lived anywhere with bigger lots.

[OLG]

17+ acres bordered on two sides by the national forest. Love it!

[elise1mds]

Just five. Hoping to buy between 7 and 10 acres here in the reasonably near future so that we can eventually build. *dreams*

[Satori]

We own six acres, but our backyard abuts a National Forest.

 

Our next home we dream of more land. We are talking of moving to Oregon.

[Meriwether]

5 acres. Our last place, in a city, was on 1 acre. I love the additional space. It is perfect for our family right now. We have room for gardening, chickens, playset, etc. with lots of open yard left over. If we are here long enough, I'd like to talk Dh into sheep or some other small livestock. If possible when we move again I'd like to find 10-20 acres.

[FairProspects]

.1 acre but we live in a major Metro area.

[3lilreds in NC]

We have around 1.5 acres; I forget if it's a little more or a little less than 1.5. It's HUGE compared to our last backyard which was, I think, about .24 acres.

 

We decided to live in a neighborhood to have, well, neighbors. Honestly, there are no other homeschoolers in our neighborhood and I'm kinda wishing we'd gone for more land. We like lots of things about our neighborhood, but there aren't lots of kids like I'd hoped and I grew up in the country, too, so I dream of being out where neighbors aren't so close. Next house, maybe. :)

[mytwomonkeys]

we have an acre, mostly wooded though.

[RahRah]

Four acres, about 10-miles outside of town in the county - about three acres is grass, the rest woods and we're one of eight houses around a fairly large private lake - in the winter, when the trees are bare, we can see two neighbors across the lake, but from now through fall, we see no one due to their trees along the lake; we're clear to lakeside, about 1.5 of the acres are from our home to the lake, so it's an awesome view and full southern exposure all day - the reason we bought this house! We're on the last lot of the lake, so no neighbors to our west, just a pond and access to the lake from the road, about two acres away....one to the east that is blocked by trees, the one to the north is also blocked by the woods that separate our homes....the other neighbors are around the lake but we can't see them, except the two across the lake in the winter.

Edited April 14, 2011 by RahRah

[Veritaserum]

Small city, .45 of an acre

[TinaBlue]

1.4 acres

[missmoe]

We are in a townhouse, so I voted none, but we do in fact have a back patio that measures 12 feet square.

[Mejane]

We have four, but more than half is rocky, hilly, and wooded - unusable except to isolate us from our neighbors. ;)

[journeytolily]

We live on a typical city lot, so less than .25. I think our lot is 50x120 or so. Our last house we had a half acre. I actually find that this smaller yard suits us better - less to maintain, but we still have room for a deck, a small basketball court and play set, and some grass for the kids to run around on.

[Jennifer3141]

We are a tinch over 10 acres. :001_smile:

[PinkInTheBlue]

Apparently our house is on almost right on 1 acre. This almost too much and I definitely wouldn't want any more. This would be too much if it weren't for so much of the backyard being "woodsy" because it's under trees.

[creekland]

This has been an interesting thread. We're in the 10 - 50 acre range. Our farm had 72 acres when we bought it. A couple of years ago we subdivided three 15-16 acre lots off of it when people wanted to buy them. Two of the three sold - the third buyer backed out. So, our "official" lot has 23 acres and we still own (and grow hay on) an additional 16 acres, but that is more or less for sale (not listed right now due to the lowered real estate economy - will be back listed when real estate recovers more).

 

It's been a great place to raise the boys and have a hobby farm. But, in a few years when my last boy heads off to college we're planning on selling our place too since it's a lot for just two people to keep up. We've come to depend on our farm hands! I'm going to miss country living at that point though.

[dirty ethel rackham]

A little over a 1/4 acre. The lots in our neighborhood are bigger than average for our town. The biggest ones were targeted by developers who wanted to tear them down to put up McMansions. The housing market crashed so several of these homes are now rentals. The transient nature of this makes me so sad. We had such a vibrant, alive neighborhood until this happened. I knew almost a dozen families who wanted to buy in our neighborhood, but were outbid by developers and speculative investors, paying 5% to 10% more than asking price. The only positive in my mind is that these developers took a bath when the market softened. (stepping gently off my soap box.)

[Gooblink]

We live on a postage stamp but are looking to buy in the 2-5 acre range. :)

[nukeswife]

I answered Less than 1/4 acre, but that's for the house we rent. The one we own in another state that my brother lives sits on about 3/4 of an acre.

[Julie in CA]

435 acres. We lease and farm more, but our original piece upon which we reside is about 435.

[TrixieB]

We are in town. I have more house than land.

Same here. The square footage of the house is larger than the square footage of the property it sits on. But we do have a postage stamp yard.

[Heather in OK]

We are on one acre.

[Pink and Green Mom]

3.1 acres in a subdivision of about 30 homes. None of it wooded.

[MamaT]

We live on a little over 5 acres, but are surrounded by about 40 acres of woods. I wish we could afford to buy it all before they develop it.

[Koerarmoca]

our home we just moved from was just less than an acre. Our new yard is much smaller. Our kids are not much for playing in the yard we are more go take a hike or go to a fun park people so it is ok with us. Plus much less yard work. Though my garden will be mostly containers this year I am ok with it I like supporting local farmers ;)