Great plan!  If you don&#x27;t plan on hunting you can get a cow&#x2F;half cow easy.<p>Best place to buy land is to the east in the Dryden&#x2F;Freeville area. Mostly because it&#x27;s cheap and it has good bus connections. Anything in the town or city of Ithaca is (seriously) at San Francisco levels of cost relative to average income. The real house might be best placed to the south in the Danby area, since it&#x27;s also cheap and there&#x27;s a lot of south hill development (past IC) being planned, so the value is gonna go up in the next few decades. It&#x27;s also the best way to get to New York (south via Owego).<p>I hope you enjoy the most good enough place in the world :)