Would you buy land in VA?

Where would you buy land?

  • NC

    Votes: 9 29.0%
  • VA

    Votes: 2 6.5%
  • SC

    Votes: 7 22.6%
  • ID/MT/WY/???

    Votes: 13 41.9%

  • Total voters
    31

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I’ve always wanted a nice chunk of land for a cabin and enough property to wander trails on an atv, shoot, hike, not see neighbors unless I choose to... I’m thinking 50+ acres. The catch is that I’m trying to find this slice of heaven within 2 hrs of Wake Forest. I’d prefer wooded space and some changes in elevation (hills).

Those parameters either move me too far west (>2hrs drive) or north into VA.

The political climate and 2A friendliness seems to be changing everywhere, but it’s definitely on the slide in VA. Long term, this land may become a primary residence after retirement.

Would you buy land in VA? Would you tell me to deal with a longer drive and stay in NC? Or would you tell me to look in SC?

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Nope.

Some counties in NC, although maybe eventually SC (but not the counties with the cities).
 
I have about twenty acres in va that I inherited. I grew up there but moved to N.C. at 21 been here ever since. My mom still lives there. I hunt and shoot there with good neighbors but you never know whats next there where its a commonwealth. Crazy Governor etc.
 
I have about twenty acres in va that I inherited. I grew up there but moved to N.C. at 21 been here ever since. My mom still lives there. I hunt and shoot there with good neighbors but you never know whats next there where its a commonwealth. Crazy Governor etc.
His reach is so impotent, he can't influence the people West of the Blue Ridge.... we are sort of a rambunctious type.
 
The 2 hours limit from your current location is what's going to limit you. There is plenty of places in the lower central part of NC that will check most of your boxes. Montgomery County and over to Uwharrie have some nice places. You will have to get off the main roads to find them though.
 
If I didn’t need to stay close to a few things in Wake County I might be inclined to leave the state, but as it is I’d be happy to just get out of a blue county and into another one with a 2A friendly sheriff.
 
There is still land like what you are looking in northern Granville, Vance, Person and other counties. You are going to run into the 2A deal where ever you go to some extent. To do what you want as far as rambling on an ATV and not being influenced by neighbors I would look for more than 50 ac. Not knowing your age nor financial status, I have told younger folks many times........ quit living so high and buy land. There is still cutover that can be had for cheap by today's standards and it becomes a blank paper to turn it into whatever you want. It just takes time and work.
 
If you have to be withhin 2 hours of wake, i'd look at stokes county. It's the nicest place i've been east of charlotte as far as 2A and good people. The farther north you go in the county the better, as lower stokes has some bleed over from forsyth. Check out walnut cove and Danbury, nice areas around pilot mtn. north of king as well.
 
If you have to be withhin 2 hours of wake, i'd look at stokes county. It's the nicest place i've been east of charlotte as far as 2A and good people. The farther north you go in the county the better, as lower stokes has some bleed over from forsyth. Check out walnut cove and Danbury, nice areas around pilot mtn. north of king as well.
You city folk stay outa Stokes county. Nothing but a bunch of rednecks up there anyway.
 
You city folk stay outa Stokes county. Nothing but a bunch of rednecks up there anyway.

I’m full-on country at heart... despite being a “Damned Yankee”.

Moving back to NC was step 1 (quickly approaching 10 yrs back!!); having a chunk of land is step 2. I’d be a good country neighbor...
 
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I'm looking for the same thing you are, and land in VA is way cheaper than in NC. That said, I've not actually physically looked at anything in VA because it's going to fall to the blue side too soon. If it doesn't happen at the federal level it will at the state and I don't want to play that "what can I not do on my land that I can do at home" game.

Having owned vacant land that's more than 4 hours away from my primary... it became a real chore. Going to said land, making sure no crackhead neighbors were doing anything dumb, servicing the well/generator, yada yada.... seems like not a big deal, but when you're working all day every day and burnt out constantly giving up a weekend to go do more work and not actually enjoy it... was a pain. Maybe here it would be different, or maybe now that I'm mentally used to stuff like that.
 
For me 3 hrs was the sweet spot- I can be there by 9 on a Friday night and stay til 5-6 on Sunday for weekend trips. We only got 20 ac but it is across from game lands and just 15 minutes from national forest OVA trails and only 10 minutes to Boj’ lol


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We're actively seeking our retirement home/10-ish acre patch of woods. I'd been looking at spots in southern & western Virginia, but with their liberal infestation taking control, VA is right off the list.
 
Lack of jobs, personal property taxes and local "sniffers" flying over your property to see what else they can tax are all Va. I am a Virginian but left for work and damn glad. I live in PA presently. Once you get out of the cities its just like home....only with funny accents. I had always planned to go back home but the way politics are trending Im thinking about just staying here or maybe a small place in WV or East TN. I still enjoy visiting, on occasion, peeps in Blueridge/Skyline drive area or just about any dirt road. The Yankees arent near as bad as we were taught....lol..I married two.
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I thought the VA gubner declared them illegal, and western counties in VA were talking about joining W.VA.

Am I smoking crack?

he tried but failed on that one... but did succeed on some others (1 handgun/month and background check type stuff)
 
There's some parts of Va, that going into would be like the revenuers going up the holler.
 
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We live in Jones County NC. Our population is a little under 10k people. We are a short drive to Jacksonville and a short drive to the beach. Plenty of public hunting land too. Love it here. We are an undiscovered treasure.
 
A majority voted to move out west but no one commented on those places? I've been out there and even checked on some land but the prices were insane and the taxes were outrageous! You can buy twice the farmland here in NC and actually grow something versus the sorry ass land they have out there that my long gone uncle would have slyly remarked "that land couldn't raise a hard-on". :D

I have right at a hundred acres and it's quite rural here. I shoot my .338 LM in the front yard and the only development that I've seen in the years I've lived here is upgrading my mailbox after a local drunk ran it over one night.
 
We live in Jones County NC. Our population is a little under 10k people. We are a short drive to Jacksonville and a short drive to the beach. Plenty of public hunting land too. Love it here. We are an undiscovered treasure.
I would move to Jones County if I could. Be alot closer to where I fish at and not be in New Bern. And I'm in Duplin County.
 
A majority voted to move out west but no one commented on those places? I've been out there and even checked on some land but the prices were insane and the taxes were outrageous! You can buy twice the farmland here in NC and actually grow something versus the sorry ass land they have out there that my long gone uncle would have slyly remarked "that land couldn't raise a hard-on". :D

I have right at a hundred acres and it's quite rural here. I shoot my .338 LM in the front yard and the only development that I've seen in the years I've lived here is upgrading my mailbox after a local drunk ran it over one night.

my experience out here is that land and housing is not cheap, not cheap at all
 
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