Maybe your idea of moving to the country is living on a working farm. Be ready for hard work and very long hours. Urbanska and Levering recommend combining several businesses. They run an apple, peach, and cherry orchard, and a small publishing business. Of course, you don't have to be an entrepreneur or a telecommuter to live in a small town.
Small towns do have their own economies and many large companies are located in small towns.
If you don't find the right job before moving, you can do temporary work, take a job for which you're overqualified, or substitute teach, suggests John Clayton, author of Small Town Bound. He claims it may be easier to find the better job once you've established residency. When you do move, remember why you came to this special place. Embrace the small-town calibrations, the personalized attention, and the limited, but important, cultural opportunities. Don't try to change your new home to better resemble the city you left behind.