I live on a bit over 13 acres, about 25 miles west of Boston. Nearly everything you listed applies to my house. We have no real noise, across the street is a walking, mountain biking trail in a state park surrounding the biggest lakes in my town. They connect to trails to the south that go into another state park full of mountain biking trails. There are a number of smaller private airports all around. Massachusetts tends to be fairly strict on gun laws, although there are at least 3 gun clubs within about 4 miles of my house. On the tending, I do forest manage, but my lawn is 6000 square feet and I'm 800 feet off the road so I don't have to be HOA compliant and for someone to complain, they have to trespass. It is expensive here compared to NC though. There are a number of lots this size all around. Best to buy an existing house as our town seems to take the strictest building requirements of the entire country and apply them. I'm about an hour and a half from 4 airports. Boston/Logan, Manchester, NH, Bradley which is between Springfield and Hartford, CT and Providence, RI.
Metro Boston rocks!
There's the usual reason why it's expensive
.It has everything people are looking for and in quantity. (Well, no Joshua trees.
)Medical options are also incomparable.
Mildest weather overall in the country because basically no extremes. And no, a few weeks of "winter" don't count because it's certainly not snowing or cold every day. Not like the inescapable heat of, say, Florida or Arizona.
Plenty of small local airports.
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