• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    It depends on what you consider a city, but yes rural areas and small towns are shrinking in population. Only those who already have money can afford to live there because they don’t need to earn money in the local economy.

    It sounds like you need more life experience. The hollowing out of rural economies has been happening since the 1980s.

    Metropolitan areas consist of those counties with central cities of at least 50,000, along with the surrounding counties that are economically dependent on them. They make up 36% of all counties. Between 2008, the cusp of the Great Recession, and 2017, they enjoyed nearly 99% of all job and population growth.

    Nationally, 71% of all metropolitan counties grew between 2008 and 2017, but more than half of the remaining micropolitan and rural counties did not grow or shrank in population.

    https://theconversation.com/most-of-americas-rural-areas-are-doomed-to-decline-115343

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      8 months ago

      Only those who already have money can afford to live there because they don’t need to earn money in the local economy.

      That’s crazy. The only people who can afford to live in poor areas are those who already have money?

      How are these areas poor if they’re only inhabited by people with excess wealth?

      Do you see how illogical your arguments are? This is why you don’t have a point. Just stop and think for a minute. Stop trying to look good in front of other children and ask yourself, “does this make sense?”