“Or he works in a diamond mine, gold mine, or some other reason to move out into the wilderness.”
Something big. His “company” transferred him there.
But it makes a better story if she doesn’t detail a good income.
The movie I was thinking of was “The Grey” with Liam Neeson.
It was about some oil workers plane crash lands in Alaska.
The men are hunted by a pack of wolves.
Liam Neeson played the hunter employed by the oil company to kill wolves that preyed on oil workers on the North Slope.