There is enough water and arable land for commercial agriculture. The land is 4 miles off the nearest paved highway. We have three neighbors, all owning land adjacent to ours. Still beautiful, it bears the scars of the cattle industry. Towns La Sal is the closest town, hosting a post office, small general store, one gas pump, an elementary school, and a small ranching community.
Entrepreneurial opportunities abound.
Although there are many Mormons in Moab, it is vastly more diverse than most of Utah. Educational opportunities include two extension colleges for adults, Head Start - 12th grade public schools, two private elementary schools, a forming alternative school and numerous home schoolers in the Moab area. Moab is also home to a wonderful natural foods store, artist and environmentalist community, yoga classes, an emerging dance studio, and alternative healers, including massage therapists, an accupuncturist, a homeopath, herbalists and midwives. Although more religiously homogeneous than Moab, they have a strong property rights ethic, and have been reasonably easy to work with so far. Spectacular, and wild.