Drove hundreds of miles through some very rural New England, USA today. Most areas were very nice with well kept homes and cute, small city centers (mostly only a couple of brick, commercial buildings).

What do people do for jobs out in the “middle of nowhere”? As an engineer who works closer to city areas where more jobs exist, I just can’t fathom what people are doing for jobs out there? How is everything paid for?

Edit: I should clarify there’s minimal farm land out in rural New England. So, not very many farmers at all.

  • Behaviorbabe@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Behavior therapy. Once I move I’ll be completely remote. New England is also weird because little towns get nestled into what you might assume are county roads.

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      1 year ago

      I’m from Cleveland. I’ll take a week vacation and drive through NY, VT and NH every year or two. The drive is really amazing. It’s really awesome how you can just be cruising down a remote county road at 60 mph, going over hills and around bends then BOOM, you need to drop to 30 because there’s a few hundred yards of really old houses and maybe an old church or gas station or pharmacy… then one Dollar General… then back to miles of 60mph of scenic nothing.

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        1 year ago

        Haha yeah. Meanwhile if you take that same trip in other places the roads slowly become dirt, then trails, then fields.