You can fix rural areas by leaving them alone. But it has to actually alone. I mean, get rid of the residential building code and any zoning restrictions on hou

You can fix rural areas by leaving them alone. But it has to actually alone. I mean, get rid of the residential building code and any zoning restrictions on house construction. It used to be that a man or man and wife could build a new house for themselves, but the city regulations have been exported wholesale to the rural areas, and the expense of subdivision of land drives up land prices. So now it is virtually impossible to bootstrap by saving a lot of money by buying a few cheap acres and building a small house: everything has to permitted and to specification, reducing the comparative advantage that should be present.