Or choose wisely where you put your roots down. We looked for years and wasted a lot of time researching properties around the area we live. This property,,,,, much to Bens disgust involved us sitting out in the car in front of our now home 4 times a day, dawn, lunch time, late afternoon and 8pm at night, we did this for 4 days and 2 of those days were weekends, I'm sure the old owner couldn't see the sense and we won't go there but my madness proved the right property to settle, no noisy neighbours, distant burning off, no roosters or barking dogs and mostly foreigners and wealthy Filipinos. Mark we had a great silent farm in Oz and here is little different aside from the foibles and you find them in all countries, very happy even aside from the odd complaint.
Back to the OP so far we can't use all the power generated from the panels and the system shuts down to usage by 12pm to 1 pm One day I pushed it running another 1.5H/P A/C so 6H/P of A/C's running and we hit around 48 Kw, 600 pesos for the day but as always the system throttles back that time by 2PM. Thinking about another 10Kw of batteries for longer usage at night.
Still see the brown outs at night and the distant humming of silenced diesel generators, not a flicker here but a sizable investment that will pay off.
Cheers, Steve.