LOL Same here regarding apartments and villa's ect, would need a big balcony or court yard. Even when I go interstate I insist the motel room has a balcony.
For a long time I dreamed of a tree change and looked at many rural areas, farms and small acreage properties. But a few years ago I ended buying out my business partner and that put to rest the idea of a tree change for the foreseeable future.
How ever, I have a modest home on 750sqm not far from Fremantle and am transforming it to a little country property in the burbs with chickens, fruit veg and series of pond that serves as the running water I would have desired on a country property