Well you know, I live on the edge of a village in a street with three houses. After those three houses the road becomes a trail into the woods:
Meadow in front of our house, meadow behind our house, neighbours on one side 30 yards away, on the other side 60 yards away. Birds chirping, fresh air all the time. There's a shop within a 3 minute drive, a train station within 2 minutes, I'm somewhere in the middle between Maastricht and Eindhoven, so there's some big cities nearby. Sittard is a nice city too, that's just a 10 minute drive away. It's pretty much perfect here.
I'll be moving soon though. To an even smaller village (880 people live there), no shops, no train station and I somehow friggin' love it. Unfortunately the house I will be living in then is semi-detached, but it's my first house and it's so much better than what most people have as their first houses. Having said that, it's so much better than what most people have, period. I love the cheap countryside
