See you don't understand in the blood. If every rancher or farmer that failed the first time moved onto something more "reliable," we wouldn't have food on the grocery store shelves.
And don't forget to book a week in some place WARM for the coldest part of winter. That would be January and February. Better make it two weeks.
The worst time to leave a ranch is in January or February. Ranchers have to feed their cattle nearly daily during these months, and if cows calve early, they have to support that process. We would be out in the worst of weather pulling calves, loading them up to bring back to the house, and putting newborn calves in the house in front of heaters to keep them alive. We would be out digging cows and calves out of snowdrifts. You have to break the ice on water tanks/holes so cattle can drink water (if it is a long enough cold spell, that is a daily chore across all of the pastures that cattle are wintering in). We drove the roads to break paths for the neighbors to get in and out of their properties. Again, no concept of the life.
It is in the blood and we (either directly or indirectly) feed most of the world. If we all just gave up that easily under the belief that it was more reliable, the grocery stores would be empty. Furthermore, my inlaws had 9-5 corporate jobs, pensions and stocks. A ‘reliable’ business. They can’t afford to retire. My farmland still works for me and I do realize that I am VERY blessed but I worked hard to get where I am now and took a lot of risks and it wasn’t “safe, reliable, dependable, whatever”. THANK GOD for that.
My immediate family sold off the livestock (except for our aquafarm) by the time I was a teenager, but I have heard a lot of those stories (and lived a few). And frankly, why is there an assumption we would WANT to go somewhere warmer? I have to spend some of the winter in the SW because I care for my mother and she can’t handle the cold, but I would MUCH rather stay here in the frozen North.
Like the t-shirt I got my husband “Why would I go to town? I didn’t plant anything there!”