Best wishes in your search,
We found that the best style of home for us was a ranch home with a full size dry basement and full height ceiling.
Our two story home with stacked floors only had half the potential basement foot print that the same living space would have available in a one story ranch home. However a lot of ranch homes only had half of their basements dug out???
We too wanted a quieter location which was found in a back corner of an older community.
Took a long time in searching in this neck of the woods for our goal but we got a rather large train room and now it is up to me to fill it !! Oh, there is a house on top of it.