Any advice on what I need to know about country living/owning property?

City, County, State, federal taxes, zoning, their history of eminent domain and zoning, their history of law enforcement employed with the area (your place, your neighbors)

WATER RIGHTS, OIL RIGHTS, THE RIGHTS OF THE AIR ABOVE your land.

Varies with oil production, proximity of an airport, state & local water restrictions

Some places, it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig a well, some places are solid rock so waste management and a septic tank get expensive.

They WERE going to build a nuclear reactor in Texas for experimentation-people lost their land...

Is there criminal activity in the area?

My aunt’s ranch was canceled when people stole a 1/4 mile of barbed wire fence and posts... my parents had a gate stolen

Do people shoot guns, weekend parties near your prospective property...laws???