Riverland Ranch

You're looking at 87 acres of established homes running around $1.1M, where the nearest restaurant is about a mile and a half out and the grocery options (six within two miles) mean you're not exactly roughing it—just far enough removed that you actually notice the land. LaBarge Dam Recreation Area is a twelve-minute walk if you want to move your legs, and Blodgett Lake sits about a mile away if the canoe itch strikes. The schools are Caledonia Community Schools, downtown Grand Rapids is twenty-eight minutes when you need it, and Gerald R. Ford Airport is close enough that you won't resent the drive. What you get is the kind of subdivision where the lots have room to breathe and the commute to the city doesn't feel like punishment—or like you're living in one.