BeachBumDeac
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Depends on what rural area you live in. If you live in the exurbs fairly close to a medium-sized city or in a college town then you might be able to still get a decent job and buy that 200k house, but there are many rural areas where the manufacturing economy has imploded and even blue-collar jobs are hard to find, and you'd be surprised at the number of even country folk that don't care to work in construction or landscaping or similar work. There are plenty of rural areas where life isn't nearly as comfortable or as prosperous as it used to be, including right here in NC.
Also lots of folks who just don't have the physical ability to work in construction or landscaping. It's not really a valid long term plan to just say "sure, just take on this back breaking physical work that will wear your body down sooner rather than later"