You need to be a farmer or live in the country where there are creatures people people can find reason to (legitimately) shoot at such as rabbits, etc. If I ever go to live in the country I will get myself a shotgun and learn how to use it.
A friend of mine rented a cottage in the country for 6 months to finish a book she was writing. She thought she would have peace and quiet to get on with her work. Not a bit of it. She said that country people are a nosy lot and she got fed up with people calling. Because her car was there they knew someone was in and tended to be persistent in knocking.
She stopped telling callers she was a writer because that just led to inane questions as to what her book was about. As she is a geneticist they would probably not have understood the subject anyway.