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Not that i see at leasst here in texas. Since the late 70's mnay small toen that al;mpost died off have been revived by bomers first buying second homes perhaps o ten acres out side the tonew and other like it. Now they are growing and boomig with boomers retiring more and more.With the bommers have come peopel openig nusinesses in fromer vacant builidng ;plus new hospitalss etc. It drw aws alot of workers wantig to live in such a environment. i think with boomers retiring that will be come more and more noraml around the coutnry as I have already seen it happening.
I live in a small Southern town and we get a lot of transplants from FL, CA or some bigger cities up north. I've heard a lot of 'It's so great here!', "I love the weather!' or 'It's so quaint!'
Well my hometown of just over 17,000 lost 300 people from the 2000 to 2010 censuses. Young people are moving away.
I live in a small Southern town and we get a lot of transplants from FL, CA or some bigger cities up north. I've heard a lot of 'It's so great here!', "I love the weather!' or 'It's so quaint!'
Well my hometown of just over 17,000 lost 300 people from the 2000 to 2010 censuses. Young people are moving away.
Florida is a destination for New Yorkers, New Jerseyans and Bostonites. TN is a destination for people who can't cut it in Florida....
I grew up a mile from our town, population of 36 which had two grocery stores, one with two gas pumps. It had a post office, church, elementry and high school and a livery and blacksmith shop. There were three towns east, north and west of us with populations 100 to 200. 50 miles north was our largest town with about 5,000 people. It is now about 275,000. It had several railroads and major highways.
Most of the people including us left for the defense plant work during WW2. Our little town of 36 is now 263 mostly retirees much before the boomers started arriving into the outlying areas.
I don't see us getting much smaller in the future.
Florida is a destination for New Yorkers, New Jerseyans and Bostonites. TN is a destination for people who can't cut it in Florida....
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I can't cut in Florida for two weeks in the summer. I can't cut in Tennessee either, or, for that matter, New York City, Boston, Toronto, or anyplace else in the humid east. But I can do just fine in Phoenix or Aspen or Salt Lake or anyplace else in the west where the humidity is low and pleasant. Where I live the humidity is about 12% on a hot summer day.
I grew up a mile from our town, population of 36 which had two grocery stores, one with two gas pumps. It had a post office, church, elementry and high school and a livery and blacksmith shop. There were three towns east, north and west of us with populations 100 to 200. 50 miles north was our largest town with about 5,000 people. It is now about 275,000. It had several railroads and major highways.
Most of the people including us left for the defense plant work during WW2. Our little town of 36 is now 263 mostly retirees much before the boomers started arriving into the outlying areas.
I don't see us getting much smaller in the future.
What city went from 5,000 to 275,000 in your lifetime?!
The trouble with most of those nice small towns is finding employment.
If there was employment, they wouldn't be small anymore.
my brother is trying to move his small business to Medicine Bow, Wyoming. population around 300. hopefully the citizens there will like the employment as he is moving the business from Maryland to Wyoming. government has gotten too much to work with for his business there and he hopes for better government to work with.
hopefully the small town wont mind him moving there. he did a contact and got nothing but help from everyone he has talked to so far.
my brother is trying to move his small business to Medicine Bow, Wyoming. population around 300. hopefully the citizens there will like the employment as he is moving the business from Maryland to Wyoming. government has gotten too much to work with for his business there and he hopes for better government to work with.
hopefully the small town wont mind him moving there. he did a contact and got nothing but help from everyone he has talked to so far.
Curious - what does he do that will allow him to survive in a 300 people town without working from home / selling services or knowledge online? In the case of the latter, does Medicine Bow have fast enough Internet to support such a business?
I grew up in one. I still visit relatives there and have attended a couple of class reunions but there is no way I could or would willingly move back there.
The closed-mindedness, the insularity, the gossip, the nosiness... I could go on and on.
A busybody's haven. And that's the men! Ugh. No thanks. I much prefer the relative anonymity of the medium-sized city I live in now.
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