OUTDOOR SPACE: The house is set on 60 rolling acres dotted with birch and maple trees.
There, cottages are spread tactfully over rolling acres of grass and woods.
Bainbridge Island has 1,400 rolling acres of parks, beaches and wetlands.
Nearly 500 acres on its northern tip is the Cook College campus of Rutgers University, with rolling acres of farmland.
After all, they spent their hard-earned dosh on a view of rolling acres, not of spanking new red-tiled roofs.
Across the street, you can see the current students making good use of Fort Greene Park, 33 rolling acres designated in 1847 as Brooklyn's first park and redesigned 20 years later by Frederick Law Olmsted.
Best of all, unlike rolling acres of grasses, it's something you can emulate in a suburban garden with a pair of birches, a handful of hostas and the courage to plant alliums in the shade.
At Tourist Farm Stern Pri Kovacniku (doubles €72) near Fram, a 30-minute drive south, host Barbara showed me around the rolling acres, and introduced me to a two-day-old calf.
The community they live in is the famously Gatsbyesque peninsula of 40,000 on the North Shore of Long Island with gently rolling acres of Tudors and colonials and a median household income of $76,645.
It wasn't until I got to university, however, that I realised They had been keeping something far better, something far more rewarding and uplifting than rolling acres or political power to themselves.
That is a refrain heard over and over in Dutchess County, where rolling acres of apple orchards and dairy farms are disappearing, replaced with suburban cul-de-sacs and minivan traffic.
