I'm looking for an opportunity to live in a wooded area a few miles away from the large city where I work. I love my job and my company, I'm extremely excited about what we do so I don't want to leave that, but I also like quiet alone time 20+hrs/day. Unfortunately I'm in one of the most expensive areas on Earth and all the close-but-rural land is already owned by insanely wealthy people. I recently moved to a very small beach town 15 miles from work and I think that's as good as it's going to get.

I grew up in Houston and there's a subdivision there called The Woodlands that I always thought seemed silly. It's written into their charter that every lot must remain at least x% heavily wooded, with certain distances between buildings. So even when you're in the middle of a dense residential area with a grocery store a block down the road and a hospital a block down the other way, you're still surrounded by a wall of trees in every direction. The older I get the nicer that seems to me. Except for it being in Houston.