Originally Posted by spdrun

Unless you're farming it, what the blue fark do you need 5 acres for? Even an acre is a PiTA to take care of -- why not buy something on a lot 2-3x as big as the house closer in and use the detached garage (typical for 1920s-1940s contruction) as your wrenching pad/mancave?

Only way I'd be interested in 5+ acres would be if it were a farm outside a college town in New England and I was planning to go 90% hippie/organic.