I’m sorry, but I like that I basically don’t have neighbors and my little girl has 15 acres to play on and explore. A lot of other people feel the same way.
The problem is the "lot of other people" issue. Your way of life works well only if most people forgo it. There's nothing inherently wrong with it in and of itself.
As a fact, a lot of people may feel that way, but not a large percentage. That's just a small percentage of a large number is still a large number. But tell me again why I have to subsidize your lifestyle by paying for your roads and inadequate federal gas laws recapturing the costs of pollution from your cars?
Meanwhile, most people raised like your little girl will end up moving to urban areas as an adult.
People generally don’t live where it doesn’t make at least some economic sense, and those farmers would probably stop farming if they didn’t have at least some basic necessities and amenities nearby.
But it might not really matter. Do small farms produce a noticeable amount of food in our food supply? I thought it all was giant farms with giant machinery, not family farms, that actually produced food.
(Edited to try to make it more clear that was a real question. Maybe family farms are important for the food supply?)
And they’re all stupidly wealthy for the amount of work they do, but that’s another matter.
Note: that’s all for crops. Raising animals seems to be another matter with plenty of smaller farms - and they do more work too.