The mountains are a bit different but you can adapt.

For example, there is this deal available to invest in the adaptive reuse of a historic property:  https://app.crowdstreet.com/properties/kex-mp/Target investor IRR is 20.1% but these numbers are optimistic projections, right?

I lived in New Mexico for a number of years and can appreciate your sentiments—I love adobe homes but it’s easy to overdose on them in communities where the prevailing aesthetics (and zoning) lead even McDonalds and Wal-Mart to adapt and appropriate the style (but, at the very least, these are still major improvements over their traditional facades).

Lenders are also changing their behavior to adapt to the consequences of the consumer changing theirs.That is a long winded way of saying, the ways credit is "cleaned up" are becoming less and less effective especially for loans like mortgages where the lenders are moving beyond the traditional consumer credit report as their primary basis for evaluating credit worthiness.

Those who have not completed college may be unaware that any subject can be made difficult and that the subject matter may appear simple or insignificant, it's about the ability to learn, adapting to disiplined study, interacting with others with different views and accomplishment.

Ancillary small companies of every kind die, move or adapt due to lack of demand.

But, once the years go by and we inheirt the next generation of homeowners, you will have to adapt to their lifestyle. 

I for sure believe that has gas stations  will be around for many more years they will have change and adapt with our new technologies and value add.

You either overcome and adapt or fall prey and play the blame game like majority of society.

You either adapt or drop out.