> In its place you find isolated exurb drug-addled dystopias. It's a bit horrifying. I think you may have spent more time reading Atlantic articles and listeni

> In its place you find isolated exurb drug-addled dystopias. It's a bit horrifying. I think you may have spent more time reading Atlantic articles and listening to documentary podcasts about small town America than you’ve actually spent in it. It is still alive and well, in pretty much the way you describe, in many/most small towns.