And besides, the developers have more important stuffs to improve in the game like adding multiplayer, fixing bugs (teleporting crops, invisible walls - which is very annoying) rather than to waste their time on that kind of suggestions
no matter where you prefer to set up your safehouse, i think you will still end up either to the farm in the north or at the cabin in the forest since water where run out eventually
3 months? are you playing survival mode? or sandbox mode?