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With the internet, small towns should be more viable in places like Kansas.
by mobilefriendly 8y ago
With the internet, small towns should be more viable in places like Kansas.
- dredmorbius 8y agoTechnology tends toward centralisation. Given the same Internet, a larger, denser, more central location has a greater comparative advantage.
- jonknee 8y agoYou need more than internet access (which is probably not all that great in much of rural Kansas!) for people to want to live somewhere. I mean you can get that anywhere, why pick perfectly flat wheat fields? The small towns were a byproduct of needing a lot of people to grow wheat, they weren't destinations that people chose.
- walrus01 8y agoIf I were going to pick a boring, flat land wheat farm type of place with ultra low cost of living to telecommute from, I would not pick Kansas. You can buy a pretty decent house in Ritzville, WA for $100k, it is on I-90, and it's not a ridiculous driving distance to Spokane or Seattle. And numerous mountainous hiking/camping/skiing/4x4ing locations within a 2 hour radius. Also in the wheat farming sort of region, some random small town 45 minutes from the moscow-pullman metro area in SE WA. Pullman is a nice welcoming college town. Can buy houses for $100-120k.
- Latteland 8y agoAnd there's a tesla supercharger there, so you are covered for everything.
- nitwit005 8y agoI wouldn't expect people to make that choice when there are better options. If I wanted to get away from urban life, I'd go move next to a forest with hiking, or near a ski resort, not near miles and miles of endless farms.