Reply #23: Well...

[ElboRuum]

I guess if you're looking to get hired by someone else, my question to you would be does it have to be the middle of "nowhere" or can it be a suburban or subrural town? Say something with a slightly larger population, say 50,000-100,000? I don't know if you'll have a great deal of any luck finding work commensurate with your skills in an out of the way place. In a large town or small city you might be able to find a happy medium of work opportunities and better environmental conditions.

Fortunately, if you are looking into the small product or service business, the ubiquity of the internet and door-to-door shipping makes it unnecessary to actually be where your customers or clients are to do business.

Then again, if you have any land, maybe a farm is for you, even if subsistence is really all you're looking, where you essentially provide for yourself: gardening, canning, the aforementioned cows, chickens, dairy. Maybe you produce a little more for sale to others to get cash. Granted I don't know how feasible any of this is. I'm no farmer.

Better question: what would you LIKE to do?