Rural towns are in the long tail of their extended death. I gleaned from this article that once the Boomers are gone, these towns are gone. Given that, who would want to relocate to such a town having such a bleak future? I'd wager hardly anyone, which appears to be the case.
100% agree. I drove through a bunch of these just yesterday and my wife and I were saying that once the current generation die there's little reason for these towns to exist.
I live in a town with a population of ~800 people and yea, once the boomer generation dies there will be maybe 40-50 people left lol
I don't know whether anyone wants to move here but I can tell you that regardless of how many people that may be, none of them ever do end up moving here
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 24.9 ms ] threadRural towns are in the long tail of their extended death. I gleaned from this article that once the Boomers are gone, these towns are gone. Given that, who would want to relocate to such a town having such a bleak future? I'd wager hardly anyone, which appears to be the case.
These towns aren't aging, they're dying.
I don't know whether anyone wants to move here but I can tell you that regardless of how many people that may be, none of them ever do end up moving here