We just bougbt around 1500m^2 in Belgium between 2 cities where me and my girlfriend work.

A street next to a forest which is nice, so it is a small community. The back part of the property is forest with around 15 trees. Big renovation project though!

I wish I could go off grid, but in Belgium we don’t have the money for the space or a heat pumps ystem for the winter. Just 1 hectare is around 300k€ without a house at all and a 20% house building tax (unless you get agricultural ground which is much cheaper at around 53k per hectare, bit you can’t build any structures on it.

But we have trees, a workshop, a decent sized house, what feels like isolation because of the forest on one side and our own mini forest behind the house.

Not enough for animals besides some chickens amd ducks, but plenty for a big garden 😁