We have to be careful...
In Sweden, the general rule is that it is OK to land anywhere after obtaining the land-owner's permission, and in the case of landing in an urban area, contacting the local police. This is a very relaxed set of rules, and it has to be guarded properly, else we may end up in the same situation as southern California, where - I beleive - helicopters are more or less forced to land at airfields.
I have a few landing sites near my home and I try to rotate them as to not disturb the same people all the time. At two of the sites I have become good friends with the people living more or less on the field perimiter, know that one of them works nights and sleeps until noon, and I can control my level of disturbance based on facts like that. I always let the kids check out the machine, tell them where to stand when I lift off etc, and this has led to the fact that I have no complaints at all, even though I sometimes get fairly frequent in my "operations" of helicopters.
As for having a landing site on your own land, that must be fantastic, and I would guess that it would be a true test of how "neighbourly" we all are.
None the less, I urge all helicopter "drivers" to fly neighbourly, safe and to exercise friendly communication to the extreme. Maybe we can slow down the inevitable path to flight restrictions to a crawl.
Oh, and as to the Swedish rule of "informing the local police", here is a re-cap of a conversation I had with them when I started flying in 1996:
"Hi, my name is Per Frejvall and I have the intention of landing a light helicopter in the open field by Valhallavägen in Saltsjöbaden this coming Saturday, so I'm just caling to let you know this fact."
"OK, so you want us to close off the park, then?"
"No, I'm just informing you as to the fact that there will be helicopter movements in the park."
"I see. Is this something to do with a rescue operation, 'cause I really can't find anything in my papers about it."
"No, no! It's just me and a friend, and the regulations say that I shall inform the local police authority of the fact that I will be landing in an urban area, that's all."
"Well... I don't quite get it. Should we place a police officer in the park? What time on Saturday?"
.... It took a while, but I finally got through to him with a few references to the regs etc. I have never called them since, and I beleive he forgot the call the second we hung up...