There are still businesses in small towns. Everything from restaurants, stores, and oil companies. This time of year, however, most businesses tend to slow down a great deal and finding a job that's actually hiring is tough. You're lucky to find even part-time work. Alternately, if traveling for work in an option, then you have more of a reach. And obviously, if you can find remote work, that doesn't require you living within 1 hr of the location, that's an option too.

This isn't New York, it's up north, not upstate. 😂