I love living rurally & I am lucky that I butt up against a dairy farm so I get the feeling of more land without it being mine...!
Same here, 1/2 an acre about to increase to 1 acre, surrounded by dairy farm with a bush block up the road. Fantastic outlook, no neighbours, but without the work of a 50 acre property.

Just remembered another thing. Can be hard to get some tradies, or they just cost more. We are only 10 minutes from the city edge, yet we had to wait a month to get our dishwasher looked at. They either will come out with an extra charge, or you have to wait till they have other work in the area. Some are great and will give you that choice, others, especially with warranty work, make you work to their schedule.

Sounds all doom and gloom doesn't it? Well it is not really, just trade off's. We love it out here, there are no hoons driving by at all hours of the night, no noisy neighbours parties. We still get the odd door to door person, but no where near as many as before. We have koalas in the back yard and frogs living in our veggie patch.