Most of the things I would look for are obvious--space for animals, nice sunny areas for gardens, space for fruit trees, and so on.
But the biggest thing I would look for now is privacy. We live in the country but on the highway and we are *constantly* being harassed--even persecuted--because we live in Klan country and we're dreadheaded hippie types. We've dealt with death threats towards our kids, even. It's fucked up and there is nothing we can do about it because the police are not much better than the people harassing us.
Make sure, if you have neighbors, that they are decent people, country folks who keep to themselves. If your property is visible from the road make sure you can handle that. You would really not believe the lengths that, in America in 2009, people will go to to drive out those they deem undesirable.
But the biggest thing I would look for now is privacy. We live in the country but on the highway and we are *constantly* being harassed--even persecuted--because we live in Klan country and we're dreadheaded hippie types. We've dealt with death threats towards our kids, even. It's fucked up and there is nothing we can do about it because the police are not much better than the people harassing us.
Make sure, if you have neighbors, that they are decent people, country folks who keep to themselves. If your property is visible from the road make sure you can handle that. You would really not believe the lengths that, in America in 2009, people will go to to drive out those they deem undesirable.