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user-inactivated · 2991 days ago · link · · parent · post: What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears?
I expect the future to be bright for little towns that get decent networking infrastructure. At some point the kids who moved back to the cities for cool clubs or artisan cookies or whatever will stop wanting to pay $madness to live in a shoebox in a place where it's impractical to own a car and someone keeps taking a dump on the subway and the population density alone is enough to give a saint a misanthropic streak. Many of them can work anywhere with good bandwidth.It sucks, but unless West Virginia figures out something to do other than mine coal, it's gonna be a rugged place to live.