re: Any you baws live/lived in a dying small town?

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IMO many small towns will come back when more and more people work at home

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This is the way it's moving. My wife works from home and it's a blessing. No wasting gas, no commute, can run an errand when she feels like it. There's absolutely no reason for her position to go into office if they don't need hands on training. All low priority meetings are conference calls, and all communications is done through chat. She goes in 1 day a week for the company meeting and to see her coworkers.

Some jobs that's not possible, but for a lot of office work that doesn't require face to face interaction I don't see why some employers are against it.

The town I grew up in was a shite town then and remains a run down little shite town now. I got out of there as quickly as I could after high school. Don't regret leaving, rarely go back.

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grew up in opelousas. zero regrets leaving

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You did the right thing.

Can a small town be dying if it never was alive? My hometown I believe was a sawmill town way back in the day. Since I was old enough to remember Everybody either worked in Lake Charles or Beaumont. Only businesses are two convenience stores, a video poker/restaurant place, and a dollar store. Population has to be less than 2000. Does have a decent school though. It’s nice and quiet but driving 35 miles just to see a movie or go out to eat sucks. Biggest downside now is it seems to be a burgeoning meth Mecca.

Yes, I miss it in ways.

My wife and I are pretty happy moving near Tuscaloosa. I’m 20 minutes from anywhere in the city, yet still have way too much yard to mow.

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What high school?

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I wanna know, too.

I was guessing Robbinsville, NC. They've got a powerhouse football program for a town of not much, but I don't recall hearing much tobacco history while I was there.

I love that area, though. Great Smokey Mountains, the skyway, tail of the dragon, fall colors, waterfalls and streams, Appalachian culture and people of the land.

If I don't make it in the corporate world, that's probably where I'll head to live out my days.

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I know someone that lives in a small town south of Chicago and it's kinda neat.

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Monee? Manteno? Peotone? Joliet? (I travel I-55/57/65/90 A LOT during football season.) I grew up in a town hit hard by the perfect storm of the early 80s recession, Wal-Mart, and NAFTA. The main businesses were luxury yachts (think Below Deck), ice makers, and cranes. The yachts are still made there but the other two abandoned the city and moved to PA. The idiots elected a numbnuts 19 year old snowflake as mayor and his answer to everything is bringing big box businesses to the interstate corridor which has turned "downtown" into a ghost town. In high school we used to see some weird things. We'd play an hour west twice a year and we'd have to pass through a turn of the 20th century ghost town where there was nothing. We'd go to a church in the middle of what used to be a cutte little town but only maintained the church and a couple of bars. IN THE 80s we'd always hear whispers of a former prep school being haunted/vandalized...when it opened it was named after JFK (IN THE 60s!)

I fear that a lot of these towns in PA & WV are going to end up being just like those miners ghost towns.

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No because it’s not a small town

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It will be.....of contributing members of society at least.

Grew up in Newellton(Tensas) and moved not on my own accord as a teenager. Have been back twice to visit family. Not sure what's going on there now but know it's not the same as when I was there.
If wealthy with no worries, I'd move back to that farm without question. Prefer that small town life where if I don't want to see anyone I don't have to.