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> The true problem is that following mechanization in agriculture many people emigrated from rural areas That happened at the latest 40 years ago (in fact it h

• mschuster91 4y ago
  > while house prices went crazy roughly after 2000. It began earlier, the problem (why the situation in urban areas exploded) was that after ~2000-2005 it simply became apparent that the future was the Internet and there was no way government or much less the private companies would ever put up the money to provide actual high speed Internet to rural areas - and so all the new "digital" companies set up shop in urban areas, and people flocked to where the new jobs were. Had the US government taken care to make sure that the companies not pocket literal billions of funds without providing the service that the government funded [1] you would not be in the mess you are now. [1] https://eu.jsonline.com/in-depth/news/2021/07/14/weve-spent-billions-provide-broadband-rural-areas-what-failed-wisconsin/7145014002/ https://eu.jsonline.com/in-depth/news/2021/07/14/weve-spent-...