Sometimes builders (rather than just repairmen) will be tucked away.
It'd definitely be a beautiful place to live and work.
Right on top of prime lumbering territory, too, now that I think about it.
But sadly the industry's been battered and not the major employer it used to be.
Was also battered by a different kind of agriculture for many years that aggravated the gap between under-employed homeowners and sudden millionaires that caused insanely inflated real estate values.
Mendocino's part of California's "Emerald Triangle".
So that was another reason I wondered whether or not a luthier could actually make a living in the area.
It's in a vicious circle of population decline as a result of those insane housing prices.
At least, as of a couple of years ago.