Rural life does not work. We need to stop encouraging it. You get low productivity, high costs, very limited access to services, very poor outcomes for health

Rural life does not work. We need to stop encouraging it. You get low productivity, high costs, very limited access to services, very poor outcomes for health, education, happiness, etc. Instead of eeking along and pretending we can make these places work, we should spend those resources enabling people to move to urban areas.