I'm in automation/manufacturing too so I have a little bit of perspective...
Try to find an area that is DIVERSE in the manufacturing sector. We do all of the automation for a Tier 1 auto supplier and they're gearing up for a lot more of their work to move to Mexico. Wage and other...
Fantastic knives.... I dated a girl in college who sold them. 34 years later they're still going strong. I've sent them in once for resharpening in that time. Not sure about now, but resharpening was free.
As mentioned above, I'd go ME or Ontario. I had a cabin in the UP of Michigan for many years. The winters and the wolves made it to where it was miserable for deer sightings.
If I'm reading your post correctly, you're looking at 15 acres of mowing or so. I do my 3.5 acres with a 60" deck Hustler which kicks butt timewise but still takes too long. I can't imagine doing more with less deck.
I'm in the auto field. You would not believe how much cheaper trucks would be without government regs. That sensor probably helps shift at optimum revs so that it's as fuel efficient as it can possibly be.
We want to build rock solid trucks without miles of wires and hundreds of sensors...
If I was a Hunt Master, I wouldn't take a pic like this making me look choadish. I'd take a pic of me jumping out of a tree with a knife in my teeth ready to stab something. I AM HUNT MASTER!!!!
My Browning triggers aren't nearly as good as my Tikka's. Has Browning improved their triggers much in the last few years? Honest question... I love the fit and finish of my Brownings
Some dogs are just flat stupid. We had working dogs on the farm growing up and the idiots just got shot.
Sounds like this inbred potlicker needs a lead supplement.