My two cents as well
We had what seems to be a similar situation, moving from a half-acre property where we did walk our dog twice a day but also just opened the back door and let her do her thing. We debated about the walled in & fenced in properties, which would have been fine for the dog but not so fine for us. Instead we went to the area just above 466 and bought a property with lots of open area facing a pond. Yes, we let our dogs (one large 65-pounder, one small & quite old schitzu) outside in the back without a leash, but due to having even more predators than we had up north (up there it was primarily coyote & fox; here we've had lots of fox, some coyote, neighbors have seen bobcats at night, & yes there was a gator for a while), they are NEVER unsupervised. We are also in the midst of expanding our lanai so that they can be out in the air (if not in the grass) without supervision.
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