No. As someone who lives in such a town, there aren't any "tradeoffs" that one would assume. There's just increased limitations and downsides. For example with

No. As someone who lives in such a town, there aren't any "tradeoffs" that one would assume. There's just increased limitations and downsides. For example with suburban and exurban sprawl being such a problem that means that traveling further and further to work becomes the norm if you don't live in one of the "desirable" cities. Which necessitates a car in the U.S. because public transport is for some stupid reason seen as antithetical to existence. Purchasing options are also extremely limited, because the economic strength required for diversity doesn't exist. It's either big box retail for almost all purchases or nothing. This also means that as time goes on the area gets economically weaker, as the wealth is being extracted by those national and international chains and being absorbed into the national and international economies instead of being circulated around the local economy like what would happen with a corner store or boutique shop. With both of those factors it's unlikely you'd be able to get a worthwhile loan for any niche business either, meaning you can't diversify the local economy without already being wealthy. If you're wealthy that negates the entire reason for moving to a low cost of living area in the first place. And if you're not wealthy, say you lost the job that you moved to take advantage of in the first place. If you can't land remote work your workplace prospects without having to move again are much lesser because of the above stated reasons.