We're thinking of buying a farm, but haven't found the right one yet.
That's my dream. :-) I'm not sure I'll ever have the risk tolerance to carry it out though. Not so sure my wife would like it either...
Anyways... I'm solidly past my FI numbers, but have not gone RE as I'm taking some of the extra to buy a couple things I'd been lusting after for awhile (things which notably do NOT incur pricy upkeep, I'm not that crazy!). We're fairly heavily biased towards retirement income rather than pre-retirement as well, so it would require effort and planning to get the ladder going and avoid penalties. Honestly, that right there is the big reason I'm not considering RE more, just the pain of trying to make the RE money accessible earilier as the non-RE portion is probably just a little too skimpy to get us all the way to RE age.
My wife did just quit her job, but she actually likes working, so will probably be looking for something at least part-time again soon. It's just her current situation reached the stage at which is was too painful to go to work and deal with a bad boss even part-time.