I knew some dairy farmers when I was younger. I never, ever, looked at acquiring a piece of land as no work. The question sometimes comes down to whether they own the land or the land owns them.
Just because it's in the country, doesn't mean criminality takes a holiday. I knew a woman who said she feared, for years, all the city folks moving into the area. Then she was injured and robbed. By a young man who lived his whole life, a half mile from her home. He knew that she might have some money in the house.

Never got around to owning a big hunting piece of land. And had no desire to become a farmer.

And I well remember the times on public land, where I was the only hiker in a park, the only hunter in a ten inch snow storm, or the only camper in a public campground. In these cases, conditions weren't perfect. A lot of people do look for completely blue sky weather.