We're not talking about the actual middle of nowhere here. There are plenty of towns or smaller cities in the Midwestern US or the Canadian prairie that are st

We're not talking about the actual middle of nowhere here. There are plenty of towns or smaller cities in the Midwestern US or the Canadian prairie that are still nice places to live but have downtown commercial districts which have shrunk over the last couple decades, and are now adjacent to functional main streets and held vacant by landlords who think commercial tenants will at some point be willing to pay the same high rents again. Amazon, e-commerce, and remote work mean towns can be growing at the same time as their central business districts are shrinking.