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re: Any you baws live/lived in a dying small town?
Posted on 2/16/20 at 10:11 pm to NIH
Posted on 2/16/20 at 10:11 pm to NIH
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No one is moving back to Alexandria because they can work from home
You're right about the warm weather stuff, but Alexandria isn't a quaint small town with a functioning, safe downtown that you can live within walking distance of and still enroll your kids in good schools with "good" demographics. Not a good comparison.
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Posted on 2/16/20 at 10:16 pm to The Mick
Used to go to Melville a lot growing up
That place is a total dump now
That place is a total dump now
Posted on 2/16/20 at 10:19 pm to The Mick
Oddly enough Starkville, Mississippi’s population never changes.
A girl gets pregnant, a guy leaves town...
:rimshot:
A girl gets pregnant, a guy leaves town...
:rimshot:
Posted on 2/16/20 at 10:24 pm to MSUDawg98
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Monee? Manteno? Peotone? Joliet? (I travel I-55/57/65/90 A LOT during football season.)
I have family from a few of those towns off 55 between Bloomington and Joliet. Most have moved to Bloomington though. Couple still live in Lexington.
Posted on 2/16/20 at 10:26 pm to The Mick
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You have family that’s still there?
Not really, most of them have dispersed over the years. No reason to visit nowadays.
Posted on 2/16/20 at 10:33 pm to The Spleen
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I have family from a few of those towns off 55 between Bloomington and Joliet. Most have moved to Bloomington though. Couple still live in Lexington.
Dwight, Kankakee, Morris, Wilmington, etc are all decent little towns.
Bloomington is nice and obviously a bigger city than the small podunk towns I've mentioned, but they have so many eggs in the State Farm basket that it would kind of freak me out to be there when they finally close down and move HQ to Phoenix or Dallas.
Posted on 2/16/20 at 10:37 pm to NIH
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That’s actually the opposite of what will happen. Working from home will let people move into areas with great weather and things to do. No one is moving back to Alexandria because they can work from home.
The places with great weather and things to do would become affordable only for the wealthy in that scenario.
People value different things in different stages of life. If you are 26 you might not understand why a 47 yr old with a family might not want to live in metro Atlanta or Houston if given the choice.
Breweries, Uber availability and Tinder dates become way less important eventually. Some people that work in white collar jobs have no desire to live in big cities.
Posted on 2/16/20 at 10:45 pm to TnMountaineer
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This post was edited on 10/30/23 at 9:15 pm
Posted on 2/16/20 at 11:18 pm to The Mick
My town is about half the size it was when I was growing up. Few of the people I graduated with are still here. Local retailers have been replaced by a wal mart out on the highway. The middle class is mostly gone. There are a few wealthy people and a large underclass, including a growing number of what appears to be homeless or near homeless. I stay because my parents are here. Fortunately my livelihood is not tied to the local economy.
Posted on 2/16/20 at 11:53 pm to fallguy_1978
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Breweries, Uber availability and Tinder dates become way less important eventually. Some people that work in white collar jobs have no desire to live in big cities.
In your 20s you want to be constantly entertained. In your 40s you want to be left alone.
People generally grow out of wanting neve ending good/drink options and look for something more self actualizing, and self fulfilling.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 12:04 am to RogerTheShrubber
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People generally grow out of wanting neve ending good/drink options and look for something more self actualizing, and self fulfilling.
Yet there are several areas that offer the best of both worlds for both 20 somethings and 50 somethings.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 12:11 am to Paul Allen
Some.
But even milllennials are leaving big cities for better schools and more affordable housing
LINK
As they age, priorities change.
But even milllennials are leaving big cities for better schools and more affordable housing
LINK
As they age, priorities change.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 12:13 am to The Mick
Yes, first 11 years of my life. Was about 1200 when we left and under 1000 now. Last grocery store is soon to close. All that will be left is a family dollar and a run down gas station.
Don’t feel guilty at all, and one day soon when my grandparents are gone I hope to never visit that down again.
Don’t feel guilty at all, and one day soon when my grandparents are gone I hope to never visit that down again.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 12:18 am to RogerTheShrubber
I drive a lot, Many small towns are dying. Some were a one industry town (paper mill) others just don't have what a big city can offer.
Many of these small towns were agricultural towns founded when transportation was a horse.
Many of these small towns were agricultural towns founded when transportation was a horse.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 12:23 am to The Mick
Shreveport. Always interesting when I go back and see what places closed down.
This post was edited on 2/17/20 at 12:25 am
Posted on 2/17/20 at 12:25 am to The Mick
I assumed I had, but I just checked and found out the population went from 200 or so in early '90s (according to google) when I lived there, to about 600 or so now, so it's growing instead of dying.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 1:01 am to Tiger Roux
quote:
I drive a lot, Many small towns are dying. Some were a one industry town (paper mill) others just don't have what a big city can offer.
Many of these small towns were agricultural towns founded when transportation was a horse.
Every small town used to me more self sufficient. Usually had a lumber mill and other small scale industries to employ the locals.
Technology and regulation soon made things more favorable for big box stores, the local mills closed and the only jobs were retail, unless there's still some natural resource jobs in the area like mining or drilling.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:42 am to RogerTheShrubber
Rural West Alabama, AKA the Blackbelt, AKA the poorest region in the country.
I did a project, an informative presentation, on my childhood town in a Comms 120 and I got nearly 100 because my instructor probably felt so bad for me.
1800 pop
1 full service grocery store (like Winn-Dixie)
5 Gas stations
2 Drugstores
3 fast food eateries. That aren't even a McDonald's, BK or Checkers level.
1 High school to serve the entire COUNTY, (here's the kicker) the school jumps between 5A & 4A every reclassification. So around 400 daily atten for the entire county. AL has 7A class for perspective.
35 min drive to Wal-Mart
1.25 hour drive to Montgomery for any decent shopping
I did a project, an informative presentation, on my childhood town in a Comms 120 and I got nearly 100 because my instructor probably felt so bad for me.
1800 pop
1 full service grocery store (like Winn-Dixie)
5 Gas stations
2 Drugstores
3 fast food eateries. That aren't even a McDonald's, BK or Checkers level.
1 High school to serve the entire COUNTY, (here's the kicker) the school jumps between 5A & 4A every reclassification. So around 400 daily atten for the entire county. AL has 7A class for perspective.
35 min drive to Wal-Mart
1.25 hour drive to Montgomery for any decent shopping
This post was edited on 2/17/20 at 2:57 am
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:51 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:
But even milllennials are leaving big cities for better schools and more affordable housing
That's a subscription link.
But what are the reasons? There could be a lot of factors. Such as being priced out? Are they leaving the city for a suburb 15 miles away...which is technically leaving but not really leaving at all. Because they still want the entertainment but can't afford to live that close to it.
This post was edited on 2/17/20 at 2:53 am
Posted on 2/17/20 at 3:56 am to The Mick
Lake Providence
Doesn’t get much deader than that
Doesn’t get much deader than that
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