Boston and the immediate surrounds are still the employment capital of the region and people are enduring longer and longer commutes for the opportunity to work in the colleges, hospitals, pharma companies and financial district of Boston / Cambridge.I wonder if there's a practical limit. 

One way to lesson the experience requirement, if review the MN laws, is via a completed specific degree.

like - your own market. or a market a couple hours away that you can spend some time in person in. or where you went to college. or where you like to vacation.

(i did the opposite as you, went to college in Nashville and relocated to Austin after!)

All I've ever done professionally is construction  (half my life, even have a degree from UNL if that makes any difference...but not).... 

I have a 4 bed/4 bath unit in a college town that is in a complex that is popular with international students.  

Renovated it completely and turned it from a college rental into an Airbnb.

A builder is held to be under a duty to exercise a degree of care which a skilled builder of ordinary prudence would have exercised under the same circumstances.

They are not cheap and obviously require some kind of cellular plan, but I was able to get them to work using Mint mobile (you need a phone to activate the sim card on first, like an old iphone) Ive had 3 of these up watching a property in Cleveland, OH for well over a year, and Ive only had one issue where I needed to go check on the camera itself, (the plug for the solar panel came disconnected and just needed plugged back in) This camera in particular is nice because its actually 2 lenses that capture the full 180 degrees, so one cellular plan for "2" cameras.

I have a pregnant fiancé in college  full time, we also have  twin Seven year old little girls at home.