Our stock tank was getting so low you couldn't wash your feet in it. One customer wondered if I was getting tired of that country place. No, but I do understand the question. I've seen Houston folks buy a piece of country real estate and they're excited about it and they renovate an old house and put up a new barn and build fences and start buying cows and inviting city neighbors to the country for the weekend. Then within a few years, their interest starts to slack off.
Unhappy things begin happening.
The husband hurts his back lifting something in the barn. Probably he's 70 or beyond and ought to know better. Or the wife meets a copperhead on the back porch. It's the first snake she's ever seen outside a zoo, and this has a permanent effect on her love for the country. She will never again be as comfortable there as she was in the beginning.