Green Acres may not be the place to be for Vice President J.D. Vance, but he does have his sights set on part of the sprawling historic Wolver Hill Farm in Middleburg, Virginia.
The 500-acre farm is about an hour’s drive from Washington, D.C., and is owned by businessman and Trump supporter Charles Kuhn, and is valued at $8.5 million. It is located in Virginia horse country.
Vance is leasing a part of the farm as an additional residence for the VP and his family. Vance already owns a 6,400-square-foot mansion, built in 1858, in Cincinnati, Ohio; a plot of land near Jackson, Kentucky; and a rowhouse in D.C., which he uses as a rental property.
He and his family currently occupy the official Vice Presidential residence in the nation’s capital at the Naval Observatory.
Vance can afford it. His estimated net worth is around $12 million. In addition to the $235,000+ salary he gets as VP, he derives income from book sales and his rental properties. How much he is paying in rent has yet to be disclosed, but a spokesperson said he is paying “fair market value” to live on the Wolver Hill property.
While famous people, including Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, have lived nearby, this is a first for the small town of around 700.
Not surprisingly. The locals are not particularly thrilled to have Vance as a neighbor, regardless of their political party identification.
One resident was quoted as saying, “Congratulations to Middleburg, which will be locked down on the regular so these people can play on a big farm they don’t know how to take care of.”
Another said that the VP and his entourage are “disrespectful criminals…who have no problem with destroying your small town country vibe.”
Axios reported local townsfolk as “spotting black SUVs and a Marine helicopter landing on the property.” The media outlet also reported that “over the July Fourth weekend, a neighbor saw the FAA post a no-fly drone zone on the site.
According to sources familiar with the move, the VP is doing so to provide his family with a semblance of normalcy away from the culture of Washington.
It’s not like Vance is returning to his roots by moving to the farm.
Despite the title of his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance is a city boy. He grew up in Middletown, Ohio, but he did spend summers in Jackson, Kentucky, which is in the Appalachian mountain chain.
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