I live in a 2 br house, that I rent from my boss, who happens to be my neighbor. We live on 23 acres in the only privately owned wetlands in Northern California. Pay $800 a month, and not having nosiy neighbors, hearing cars go bumpin by and no sirens is worth the $800. AND we have a pirate ship!
I can see the whole east bay from my front porch damn near.
Our property is self-sufficient, it runs on propane and batteries and we have water trucked in. All that shit is housed in this building.
The pirate ship:
The view from the front: