West of Boston, try Harvard, Bolton, Berlin, Hudson, Stow. These are nice towns with a lot of open space and big home lots. But not so rural that you can’t find a fancy coffee place easily.

No proximity to the airport but With your budget and desire for land, you can’t get that within a 30 minute drive to the airport. Frankly a 30 minute drive to the airport would be coming from Arlington maybe, if you were lucky with traffic. And you have a postage stamp yard. So it’s just deciding what’s important to you. If you want an acre of land, you’re going to have a long drive to the airport. You have to get pretty far from Boston to find houses with that type of land for that price.