Farming...? Most people have hobby farms and also have to work a real job everyday also to pay for the lifestyle.

Dairy farms are over when and if the fuel quits running and the power goes off. They will be giving the cows to the locals or turning them out. Some will get mastitus as they need to get milked everyday and need to be breed to keep producing milk. Dairy farms are over in a SHTF event.

People whom have cattle have to put up hay and feed them all winter and have lots of pasture.

I have been on my hundred acres for 12 years in a high mountain valley. There are about 30 other area residences. There are a few that have been here way longer than me.

We always watch when a place goes up for sale. We have seen many properties change hands over the years and its always the same thing. People move out to the country and then soon REALIZE WHAT IT ACTUALLY TAKES JUST IN MAINTENCE ALONE NEVER MIND IF YOU HAVE A FEW ANIMALS. Most of the City types last maybe 2 winters. Some even less. Too much work and money going out all the time. Your a slave to your lifestyle and then you have to work on top of it unless you arrived in the beginning with alot of money saved up. Its hard work and you better have deep pockets. OP"S right about all of it. For the ones that have never been there and done it you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.