IT a daydreaming about farming

I feel uniquely qualified to answer this. My wife’s father grew up on a farm and when he passed, she inherited a fraction of it. So I literally have the choice at any moment to quit IT and move out to a farm to work the land. Would I do this? Absolutely not. The “luxuries” that I take for granted don’t exist on the majority of privately owned farms. Do you like water that smells like rotten eggs? Because you’re probably going to be showering in and drinking well water. Do you like AC when it’s 100° out? You’re probably living in a house that was built before it was common, so your only option is a window unit in your bedroom. Also, I hope you don’t plan to use your cell phone or expect high speed internet. And hopefully you’re ok with Walmart runs for anything larger than a postcard, because the Post Office is the only thing that delivers to you. How about bugs? Because production bugs pale in comparison to country bugs. Just imagine pulling 15 ticks off your leg every time you walk through greenery, which comprises 95% of the surfaces you’ll walk through. But that’s all before getting into the farming part of it, where you’ll work 12+ hour days doing hard labor to nearly break even with operational costs. Which you also need to manage properly so that you can exist for another season before accounting for your own personal needs. We don’t appreciate farmers as much as we should, but it’s certainly not a profession I would pick over IT.