Quote Originally Posted by old goat View Post
The Black Forest is in Germany, not the US. The clocks are made in Germany. No, we didn't buy one
the clocks are a movement (made anywhere now) and carvings (labor intensive so made cheap now). Cuckoo clocks like shitty violins were things farmers did in the winter to make a little money, they were so crappy the makers didn’t care what they looked like


the problem with local small businesses is there’s rarely a good exit. A relative died recently, he’d owned a repair shop made a decent living (>US median). He was aging, trying to sell, nobody wanted to buy. Nobody wants the tools.