In lowsec, as in wh, people live for making reactions, farming expensive ore, anomalies with escalations like 6/10 - 8/10, passing 4-5 agents, digging expensive moons from R4 up to R64 the most expensive. To facilitate logistics and export of a large amount of resources by jump freighter at one time. 

In lowsec there is a local, that is, you see who is in the system. And you do not have to constantly press d-scan, fearing that you are not alone in the system, unlike wh and pocven. In lowsec there are NPC stations, and it is impossible to evict from them. Especially when the station has a cloning center or a factory for the production of something, with the processing of minerals. Of the minuses, on planets in lowsec there are 25%-50% less resources than in wh, soil and nullsec. Therefore, earnings will be reduced.

And also, lowsec is a PvP zone, there is a war for them. All good lowsecs have long been occupied by large alliances. And if you want to live in lowsec, then you will simply have to sink your teeth into the lowsec system, together with your corporation. To control and farm it calmly. 

Dead-end systems in 1 or a couple of jumps from highsec are best suited for farming and cynos. To facilitate logistics. Systems where active factional wars are taking place, or in which the logistics route from highs to nulls, and vice versa, passes, are better not to populate. Also, in systems with expensive R64 moons or ice belts, you most likely will not be allowed to live normally, they have long been occupied (probably). Same, is systems with 5 lvl agents.

Going to lowsec

This obviously requires a T2 blockade runner transport, or at least an omega for a cloak. You drag the fits to the NPC station, barge, combat ship and scanner, through the gate, when no one is in the system, or through the wormhole. If this is a residential lowsec, then first you bring a neutral, newly created character without a corp to the station, and see who lives in these lowsecs and when they are online. 

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And only then decide whether you have enough strength to capture them or not. Installing a citadel is much more difficult than in WH, you will have to have a fleet of combat ships, depending on the lowsec that you decided to live there. Well, defending it will not be so easy either, since there is no wormhole like in WH that limits the tonnage of ships, and through the cyno a dreadnought or a carrier or a maser or a titan can fly to you, or just a fleet of small things that will shave off your citadel. 

Therefore, it is important that there is an NPC station in the system, but people recommend placing the citadel not next to the NPC station but further away from it, and so that the exit is to the station and to the warpgate, so that the ship does not turn around during warp. 

Activity

There is a lot of expensive ore in lowsec, on belts and in anomalies, the green stuff is more complex, from which high-level escalations drop. In hidden signals, fatter relic data and high-level escalations drop. And also gas, from which boosters are maided. Lowsec is a PvP zone, there will be a lot of battles compared to highsec, and even with wh, with other players.This is the production of goods with lower material costs, production of CBTs such as Dreadnoughts, Rorquals and Carriers with FAXes, even at NPC stations and sale them there.

This is the production of boosters and reactions on the athanor, gas compression and its processing. Mining expensive moons. More profitable ore processing, with a large profit. Farming delivery agents and a combat agent of 4-5 levels, with a large amount of reward in the form of LP. Also, in lowsec you can farm NPCs on belts, with expensive modules or ore. 

Logistics, you can jump with a jump freighter not to the NPC station, but to your citadel, for safety. This is the starting base for raids on other lowsec and nullsec systems, using the Capital Fleet. And also raids on residential WH systems with static in lowsec and a hole for large and very large (capital) ships, and their farming. 

Moving from lowsec

In case of moving, all assets are transported from the citadel to the NPC station, then if the highsec are in the neighboring system, then the warp goes to the gate. If you need to fly through lowsec, then eyes are placed in the cloak on the warpgate on the second account, or logistics are carried out through the pochven. 

Or you can sell everything at a reduced price at an NPC station, or order a courier with good pay. As you can see, in lowsec, there is more variability than in wh, and you don't need to constantly press d-scan. But it is difficult with a planetary industry, which gives 50-75% of normal earnings, and also PvP is constantly lowsec, it makes itself felt.