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re: Any you baws live/lived in a dying small town?
Posted on 2/17/20 at 5:17 am to The Mick
Posted on 2/17/20 at 5:17 am to The Mick
My mom grew up in a small farming town - population 385 when she lived there. It's down under 100 now. She couldn't wait to leave and has no regrets that she did. None of us has seen the town in more than 20 years, that's when her mother died and there were no more relatives left. The fire department burned down the house she grew up in, for practice and because it needed to be done.
Heh - where I live has less than 1,000 people and really is struggling economically. It was a commercial fishing town that has seen much better days. Beautiful area, I could have moved almost anywhere and picked here. It's paradise if you love the outdoors and hate crowds.
Heh - where I live has less than 1,000 people and really is struggling economically. It was a commercial fishing town that has seen much better days. Beautiful area, I could have moved almost anywhere and picked here. It's paradise if you love the outdoors and hate crowds.
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Posted on 2/17/20 at 5:33 am to lsufanva
I grew up there also, was a good place to grow up, not much left now, left in 1975, go back to the cemetery to put flowers on my parents grave every now and then, have a few friends that still live there, just a dying little town now
Posted on 2/17/20 at 5:41 am to The Mick
Cousin from Dallas recently bought a house in Electra, Texas(pop. 2700, $29k)
There are some phenomenal deals to be had on some beautiful homes in those small towns. Surprised more people in the city don't buy them as weekend getaways, like my cousin did. He bought a 1930s craftsman style house in original condition for like 30k. For like another $15,000 he proceeded to buy up all the lots around him. Now he has like three quarters of an acre in the middle of a small town.
Bogalusa Louisiana is the same way. There's some absolutely beautiful old homes, dirt cheap. I'm talkin like 20K 30k. Homes that are $400,000 homes Uptown or in the Marigny.
I think eventually the economy will decentralize and white collar jobs will all be performed remotely and overnight drone dropship and cheap land prices and space will have more manufacturing moving out to the rural areas between these small towns so I think buying a house in a small town might actually be a good investment as well. I also kind of see the possibility of a back to the land movement for a lot of Millennials
Oh and, I wouldn't call my town dying but it's a small town -
Abita Springs
Pop 2,500
MHI $58k
There are some phenomenal deals to be had on some beautiful homes in those small towns. Surprised more people in the city don't buy them as weekend getaways, like my cousin did. He bought a 1930s craftsman style house in original condition for like 30k. For like another $15,000 he proceeded to buy up all the lots around him. Now he has like three quarters of an acre in the middle of a small town.
Bogalusa Louisiana is the same way. There's some absolutely beautiful old homes, dirt cheap. I'm talkin like 20K 30k. Homes that are $400,000 homes Uptown or in the Marigny.
I think eventually the economy will decentralize and white collar jobs will all be performed remotely and overnight drone dropship and cheap land prices and space will have more manufacturing moving out to the rural areas between these small towns so I think buying a house in a small town might actually be a good investment as well. I also kind of see the possibility of a back to the land movement for a lot of Millennials
Oh and, I wouldn't call my town dying but it's a small town -
Abita Springs
Pop 2,500
MHI $58k
This post was edited on 2/17/20 at 5:45 am
Posted on 2/17/20 at 5:46 am to ELVIS U
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live in New Iberia, so yes.
New Iberia is a shell...make sure to turn the last of the lights off when you move to Youngsville.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 7:53 am to The Mick
I lived in Houma. Once a booming oilfield town, now they’re chasing 12 year olds from floats.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 7:53 am to GeauxDoc
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New Iberia is a shell...make sure to turn the last of the lights off when you move to Youngsville.
This needs to stop.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 7:54 am to The Mick
Small town USA is dead
Posted on 2/17/20 at 7:56 am to 3deadtrolls
Stop. Why? Is living in a cane field with strip malls not appealing to you?
Posted on 2/17/20 at 7:59 am to NIH
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Stop. Why? Is living in a cane field with strip malls not appealing to you?
Bruh, so many strip malls. Everywhere I look there’s another one coming up. I keep thinking there’s only room for so many badly named boutique stores that all sell the same crap but they just keep coming. I think the strip malls are just autonomously building themselves at this point.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 8:02 am to The Mick
Yes
Shreveport sucks
Shreveport sucks
Posted on 2/17/20 at 8:05 am to RogerTheShrubber
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In your 20s you want to be constantly entertained. In your 40s you want to be left alone.
I'm definitely in the latter stage at this point. There's almost nothing that I care about that doesn't exist in a town with 25k people.
My job is just concentrated in larger markets as I guess most are. Plenty of remote work options in my field though.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 8:20 am to RogerTheShrubber
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In your 20s you want to be constantly entertained. In your 40s you want to be left alone.
Maybe it's different in other parts of the country, but if you want to be left alone, a small town in the south is the last place to move to. People in southern small towns are obsessed with what other people around town are doing.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 8:52 am to 3deadtrolls
I’ve never understood the appeal. Basically a suburb filled with first generation college graduates from New Iberia.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:03 am to RogerTheShrubber
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This post was edited on 2/17/20 at 10:27 am
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:21 am to nola000
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I think eventually the economy will decentralize and white collar jobs will all be performed remotely and overnight drone dropship and cheap land prices and space will have more manufacturing moving out to the rural areas between these small towns so I think buying a house in a small town might actually be a good investment as well. I also kind of see the possibility of a back to the land movement for a lot of Millennials
Maybe, but even with decentralization...urban centers, airports and transportation hubs will still matter a ton. We might be at the end of the age of interstate extensions to open land, we don't even have enough money to maintain/upgrade the highways we have now. Places that have good highway (and in some parts of the country transit access) to urban centers will have the best chance of doing well in the future.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:23 am to Kafka
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IMO many small towns will come back when more and more people work at home
That would be interesting watch since the majority of these small towns have a very low MHI and available amenities are reflective of that. Would an influx of high earners provide a boost for these "dying" towns?
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:25 am to NIH
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first generation college graduates
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