I live in the country, on a farm. Love the fact that houses aren't right on top of each other, there are wide open spaces. Our address is a small mid-Michigan town, love the smallness of the town (only about 3,000 people) and that there is very little crime (serious crime) in this area. You can walk at night and feel safe. Love the small stores, and getting personal service from those we frequent. Love that the tellers at the bank ask how my Mom is doing anytime I go inside to do my banking, things like that. I love the city park, that has a walking path all the way around it, I can walk across the railroad track and walk in the cemetery too. So quiet and peaceful. And most of our family lives in the general area, with one granddaughter about an hour's drive away.
What I don't like is the CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) about a mile up the road from us. Our area used to be so quiet, but with thousands of cows on that "farm" there are trucks going by all the time (milk trucks, feed trucks, construction trucks (he's always expanding) and the manure trucks/tractors. It's never ending. And all that heavy traffic has ruined the road, the the county just keeps patching it. Patches on top of patches. It hasn't been resurfaced in so many years, it's pathetic.
We have a "second home" in Northern Michigan and spend as much time as we can there during the warmer weather months. It's 30 acres and we park our 5th wheel camper there, plus it came with another camper so we use that as a guest camper for family and friends. Love spending time up there, normally it's so quiet you only hear the wind in the trees and birds singing. We have trails in the woods for walking and quad/Ranger riding, pick blackberries in the summer, and DH has a shooting range in the back. We enjoy a lot of outdoor cooking and a campfire in the evenings, especially love it when family or friends are sharing it with us. The whole area has tons of riding trails so we go exploring all the time. We have some great neighbors on the one side of us. We are next to state land on one side and there is a small beaver pond near us, and we can occasionally hear loons. Love that! The only thing I don't care for is the other neighbors do a lot of shooting, which would be fine but they do it right by their cabin which is very close to our campers and the larger calibre guns are just so loud. Sometimes they'll shoot for an hour or two in the morning, again in the afternoon, and again before dark. It does get tiresome, especially when they own 160 acres and could easily make a range at the BACK of their property, like we did (so it isn't loud for the neighbors). But thankfully they aren't always up there at the same time that we are, and when they are I just put ear plugs in my ears when they start shooting.
