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Well, we are seeing a hollowing out of many rural communities in the US, there's an analogy there.
by alexasmyths 9y ago
Well, we are seeing a hollowing out of many rural communities in the US, there's an analogy there.
- brudgers 9y agoTractors. When my wife's grandfather was born in the early 20th century a family farm in north central Iowa was limited to about 160 acres or a 1/4 section. So each section could have four family farms and a Township with ~50% agricultural utilization might have 300 farm families in the township and some people living in town. That's about a 1000 people. Today a family farm there is about 1200 acres. That's 1/7 the rural density. The economic catchment for the town no longer has enough customers to support the businesses it once did...and that all happened before Amazon and UPS and Walmart thirty miles away and Costco up in Minneapolis and cars got faster and safer and roads got better.