How many of these would it take to drive down property values in a neighborhood?
There is your answer.
If you take the Empire Builder from Chicago towards the northwest, one of the trains goes through North Dakota at night.
Every farm in the area has one of those mercury vapor lights in the yard, which are visible for tens of miles. If you sit in the scenic car then, you will see one of those farmstead perhaps every hour. It is very not populated.
(Also, I get the need for peace and quiet sometimes, but it makes me sad how so many people in the US just... don't like to be around other people.)