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2017-12-24 Economy

Is a new 'Land Rush' underway in America ?

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-24 03:14|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 What rural electrification did under FDR could be applied to bringing broadband width digital communications to rural areas. That will make access to the 'world market' easier and away from metro hubs. Why live in overcrowded commuter hell cities if you have the same infrastructure access to markets?

Posted by P2kontheroad 2017-12-24 07:25|| 2017-12-24 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Not a new concept, but I hope this effort succeeds.

Wiki link to New Harmony, Indiana

Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-24 08:11|| 2017-12-24 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Get PAID up to $80,000 to move to struggling towns:Baltimore, Maryland

Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-24 09:08|| 2017-12-24 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Harmony, Minnesota

Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-24 09:17|| 2017-12-24 09:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Migration will demand infrastructure. Easier to make the metro hubs uninhabitable, P2k.

Oh, wait...

Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-24 09:21|| 2017-12-24 09:21|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't WANT more neighbors. And I don't need more broadband (10 Gb of satellite will do as long as I stay away from sites with lots of animated ads.)

Posted by Glenmore 2017-12-24 09:39|| 2017-12-24 09:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Infrastructure, well they forget that problem. Then who will relocate?. The left thinking most likely. They will make many demands. The resources will not be there. Drug use and abuse will prevail. Many small towns don't have police coverage. I can think of one example in Pennsylvania. An officer is dispatched from Somerset Pennsylvania to Meyersdale Pa. The responding officer is required to write $300. ticket total to justify trip. Then to Hyndman Pa. I was told $700. dollars but I can't verify that amount. This town is a bit further away from Somerset. It would be far better to keep them in the city. City people have ideas that will be alien in a rural area. They will cling to what they believe in and as with a salad remain distinct and different.

Posted by Dale 2017-12-24 09:49|| 2017-12-24 09:49|| Front Page Top

Man has historically been moving hither and thither. Sometimes Gawd is blamed, sometimes man.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-24 09:53|| 2017-12-24 09:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Can't play your MMO on satellite ;)

Posted by P2kontheroad 2017-12-24 10:07|| 2017-12-24 10:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Many years ago a city dwelling family friend decided to pitch the city life for the rustic mountains. First chore was to chop all the trees down.

Be careful who you invite they may not have your values or best interest in mind.

Posted by Airandee 2017-12-24 10:38|| 2017-12-24 10:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Of course not. However, when they have to haul food et al, they'll grasp the sudden need for proper transport (not some urban 'Smart Car') and quickly grasp the connection of oil prices and their pocket book. Certain perspectives will smack them right in the thick forehead.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2017-12-24 10:56|| 2017-12-24 10:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Not to mention the sheer distance to the 'local' Starbucks! Why it might be over 100 yards away.

Would need to drive there.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-12-24 11:13|| 2017-12-24 11:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Where there's a will there's a way. Some tales from flyover country: (1) Elderly man in an outlying rural town gets chest pains during a blizzard. Needs to go to a hospital with advanced cardiology care 70 miles away. Highways & interstates, closed. Even choppers are grounded. No possibility of EMS transport. Local highway dept. gets its 3 snow plows in tandem & parallel, and they form a convoy leading the ambulance with the patient, which then clears the path all the way to Fargo & back. Man's life is saved. This would not even happen in more civilized parts of the midwest. (2) A closed USAF radar station outside of town had a fiberoptic comm line installed back in the 1980s or 1990s when it was still open. After base closure, its housing was relocated by trailer a few miles away into town. A local internet entrepreneur creates an ISP which benefits from the old USAF fiber optic line. Puts a high powered WiFi router on top of the grain elevator & provides very fast broadband to the entire (very small) town for a very low price, undercoating the wired ISP price of the local telephone monopoly by quite a bit. (3) One by one, unoccupied town homes are torn down after the elder owners die off, one by one, and are not replaced. Small ND town changes it zoning laws & allows vacant town lots to be converted into improved RV pads for use during the summer season by its elderly snowbird alumni who would at least like to live close to friends, while spending the worst of the winter in Arizona. The lots are immaculately maintained whether occupied or not. (In my unenlightened part of the midwest, I am prohibited by zoning laws from sleeping in my own tent in my own backyard). Another town tore down a home and is offering the improved town lot for just $100, located on the main state highway through town. Nice homes abut. No takers of this plot for years.

a dearth of options for Americans living in the more bucolic regions of America

This due more to a blinkered mindset and an attitude of "we've always done it this way" than anything else, and more in the urban regions than in the bucolic ones.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-12-24 12:05|| 2017-12-24 12:05|| Front Page Top

#14 Then there are the reflections of Del McCoury on this issue, entitled "40 Acres and a Fool"
https://youtu.be/kbW4mrzTwtw

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-12-24 12:09|| 2017-12-24 12:09|| Front Page Top

#15 You could get 40 acres pretty cheap in Detroit. Gotta bring your own mule, though.

Posted by SteveS 2017-12-24 12:45|| 2017-12-24 12:45|| Front Page Top

#16 With the reduction of the deduction for state sales taxes and state income taxes, the mass exodus from Californicate, Illionis, New York, and Connecticut will escalate.

The new land rush is people with jobs and disposable incomes relocating to states with little or no income taxes, low property taxes, and relatively low sales taxes.

Californicate in particular is looking at a mass migration of individuals with incomes over $50,000 and replacing them with gardeners, burger flippers, burglars, and thieves.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-12-24 19:25|| 2017-12-24 19:25|| Front Page Top

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