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What do all the people do (for work) in rural area towns and unincorporated areas?

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.

rev ,

Remote work

itadakimasu OP ,
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Remote work is only widely possibly in the last few years. Most homes I drove past are well kept century homes on 1-10 acre lots

Takumidesh ,

The work is still remote, they just have to drive to the remote location :)

In all seriousness, most people just commute to the nearest town or city.

elephantium ,
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My grandma used to call her town a “bedroom” community. 600ish people lived in town with most commuting for work. IIRC, there are a couple of nearby towns with around 3k people, the biggest city in the county having 12k people. One of the state’s major cities is around an hour away; think 100kish people.

I used to think that would be too far to commute, but from other comments on this post, it sounds common.

robocall ,
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There are people that drive 45+ minutes each way for their job.

Boozilla ,
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A lot of people don’t work (retired, married a bread winner, or students living off mom and dad).

And there are of course telecommuting jobs now.

And even rural areas have doctors, dentists, plumbers, electricians, gas stations, delivery services, daycare, schools, libraries, churches, post offices, and countless other “invisible” employers that are easy to forget about when you live in a metropolitan city with dozens or hundreds of major corporate employers.

Beeps ,

There’s also truckers with over the road/long haul jobs. You and you family can live anywhere when your job is to drive across the country.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Truckers generally are more of a suburb and outskirts thing. Mostly because you still need to get to the distribution centers to pick up cargo.

I could imagine a few truly independent truckers (own their own rig) who live in the middle of nowhere between seasons. But they likely are also smart enough to not want to risk their truck breaking down way the hell away from anything that can help them.

That said, other seasonal workers like people who work on oil rigs or fly out to do basically every Alaska based job that the Discovery Channel lives off of can potentially live in the absolute middle of nowhere. But… most of them likely want a place to spend their cash if you catch my drift.

qooqie ,

Some people will do jobs that bring money into the town such as engineers, hospital workers, etc. Others provide a service to these people such as restaurants and they make their money off them. People overestimate how much you need to survive in a rural community. It’s extremely cheap compared to big cities which is why rural tends to be heavily associated with low income communities

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