"...what I'm saying is that you'd better be prepared to deal with some pretty rough characters."

Luckily, I am a police officer also, so I am ready to deal with rough characters. As a matter fo fact, I found that when I owned my land supposed "rough" characters with guns usually are much quicker to flash them than they are to use them. After showing a few"locals" that I was not of the same persuasion as they were, my problems stopped, which were mostly dumping of trash actually.

Tatonka, like it or not, this is a free-market, capitalist economy. Non-Locals will be buying land in rural areas, and the supposed "locals" have no right what-so-ever to demand any use of said land. As a matter of fact, if we want to get technical, can I demand that NYC gets its fair share of taxes returned considering we pay WAY MORE than the more rural parts of the state, but see more of it spent up there than down here? It's apples and oranges, but the fact remains that a land owner has every right to do whatever they want on their land, whether the locals like it or not, as long as it is legal.