The best thing you can do is mentor youth and encourage them to seek education and employment in a rising or at least mid-level city. The long term trend is ur

The best thing you can do is mentor youth and encourage them to seek education and employment in a rising or at least mid-level city. The long term trend is urbanization and clusterization of industries and homes. This means a lot of old cities and rural areas which were built around one factory will not grow back up. This is just reality. The youth have a lot of their life still left. The sooner they invest their lives in rising cities, the better.