There's plenty of decay on the coasts and cities doing great in middle America. You never hear about them on HN because they're not ideologically convenient in

There's plenty of decay on the coasts and cities doing great in middle America. You never hear about them on HN because they're not ideologically convenient in the little filter bubble we've got going on here. The "coasts rich and good, middle America poor and backwards" narrative that we get plenty of here, on Reddit, etc. is an over-simplification at best.