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Are many rural areas on the brink of collapse?
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Date: September 21st, 2017 5:54 PM Author: Jet den seems like many are at a tipping point, where they have a very large aging boomer population, with few people to replace them and nobody moving in. will there just be ghost towns spread across the rust belt, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34262889) |
Date: September 21st, 2017 5:58 PM Author: glittery brunch "collapse" isn't really the right concept. they tend to die quietly. properties and stuff gradually gets abandoned. there is no dramatic implosion; there is just a gradual decline and dropping-off. certain roads that don't have enough residents anymore are turned to gravel to save maintenance costs, that sort of thing. certain power lines might not ever get repaired if a storm brings them down. there's just no demand. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34262935) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 6:01 PM Author: fiercely-loyal disturbing stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34262949) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 6:42 PM Author: chocolate exhilarant circlehead Cr. It's a sad slow death. Another big problem is the closure of rural hospitals. Many of these areas will be an hour or more from an ER. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263209) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 6:45 PM Author: High-end Hell i dont see it as sad, i see it as natural. population growth is straining infrastructure and urbanization can help alleviate some of this strain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263233) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 6:47 PM Author: bearded headpube associate hmmm, because there are zero obstacles to urban living, particularly in most western nations... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263247) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 6:49 PM Author: High-end Hell huh? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263259) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 7:13 PM Author: bearded headpube associate cities are already too big and promote atomized, hedonistic lifestyles that create population crashes. add in the fact that a violent underclass makes them unappealing to all but the top decile of earners and the obstacles to neo-urbanism are tall, perhaps insurmountable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263408) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 6:53 PM Author: chocolate exhilarant circlehead I see it as sad to the extent that the people whose families have been there for generations have to leave even though they would prefer to stay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263284) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 6:55 PM Author: High-end Hell idk man, i wouldnt glorify this shit. their distant kin shoved off from a place once, and now it's happening again, and not without reason (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263290) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 6:57 PM Author: odious jet-lagged messiness Lol this is ridiculous. Medical expenses are kept artificially high by government subsidization of research and our egalitarian views toward treatment. "Oh look! A pill that raises treatment effectiveness from 84% to 87% for some patients! And it only costs 73x the price of the old pill from 1958! Time to adopt a new gold-standard for use in every hospital in America!"
Quit developing that horseshit. |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 6:58 PM Author: High-end Hell wtf are you talking about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263314) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 7:00 PM Author: odious jet-lagged messiness i'm running maf shtick. are you not gonna engage, faggot? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263324) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 7:01 PM Author: High-end Hell HEY MAN FUCK YOU!
*puffs out chest* |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 7:03 PM Author: odious jet-lagged messiness Now we got subthread! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263346) |
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Date: September 22nd, 2017 1:12 PM Author: Racy mint nursing home Wow how can u be so retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34268997) |
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Date: September 22nd, 2017 1:12 PM Author: Racy mint nursing home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34269000) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 8:07 PM Author: ultramarine narrow-minded point depressive jesus, that sounds even more depressing than Detroit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263879) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 6:59 PM Author: Doobsian dashing locale deer antler Look at declines in white longevity. First time that's ever happened to ANY cohort in first world country. Thanks obeezy! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263316) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 7:11 PM Author: exciting navy psychic Why wouldn't this happen though? Gen X has no reason to live. Read between the lines. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263399) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 7:23 PM Author: domesticated generalized bond In 100 years, most small towns in the US will be ruins (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263477) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 7:24 PM Author: High-end Hell much sooner than that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34263483) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 7:25 PM Author: odious jet-lagged messiness Nah, it's only a matter of time before either terrorists get nukes or NK/Iran starts nukin'.
After 2 or 3 major cities get hit, there'll be a mass exodus from all cities and a reruralization of the nation. |
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Date: September 22nd, 2017 2:06 PM Author: arrogant persian Smug liberals and "migrants" dying by the millions! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34269278) |
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Date: September 21st, 2017 10:49 PM Author: bistre alcoholic pocket flask They hit rock bottom i'd say around 3-4 years ago. Things are looking up now, I have noticed a lot of people are moving back to these areas for the low cost of living and lack of traffic, crime etc. as more people get the ability to work remotely this will increase
Lots of gen xers who are fleeing cities now that their kids are old enough for public school |
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Date: September 22nd, 2017 2:34 AM Author: Marvelous ungodly people who are hurt We have a winner. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34266286) |
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Date: September 22nd, 2017 1:16 PM Author: chocolate exhilarant circlehead I hope this is the case (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34269024) |
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Date: September 22nd, 2017 2:23 PM Author: chest-beating stage pozpig Some rural towns will be saved by the self driving car when it occurs. But probably only those within a 90 mile drives of a tertiary city. But most will slowly fade away, while nature reclaims the buildings. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
I'm from a small town so I find it sad. But GC waits for no man. |
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Date: September 22nd, 2017 2:28 PM Author: chocolate exhilarant circlehead I find it sad too, though others don't seem to be concerned. There was a new article today about how hospital closings are killing rural areas
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hospital-crisis-killing-rural-communities-090116288.html |
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Date: September 22nd, 2017 2:31 PM Author: chest-beating stage pozpig Yea there is a quote somewhere that is basically "we should be as efficient as needed but no more; all the beauty in humanity - family, home, art, are all inefficient" or something along those lines. I think that applies to rural America, family farms, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34269477) |
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Date: September 22nd, 2017 2:29 PM Author: multi-colored free-loading theatre I am considering moving back to the country and fortifying self on family land. Encourage other family members to go back and we can pool our resources. Just have to convince wife to abandon rootless cosmopolitanism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34269452) |
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Date: September 22nd, 2017 2:33 PM Author: bull headed mediation heaven Meth and or heroin have already wiped most of these places out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3739199&forum_id=2#34269495) |