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Where are the retirees going to get medical services? Some tiny town isn't going to have a hospital or any other medical services, and retired people need that

Where are the retirees going to get medical services? Some tiny town isn't going to have a hospital or any other medical services, and retired people need that more than anyone else.

toomuchtodo 2y ago
Average travel time to an acute care facility for someone in rural America furthest from a facility (a quarter of rural population) is about 34 minutes. Assuming ~55mph country roads, that gives you a ~30 mile radius from rural hospitals where you can site. Closer is better but your constraint is price per acre, broadly speaking. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/12/12/how-far-americans-live-from-the-closest-hospital-differs-by-community-type/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/12/12/how-far-a...
blinded 2y ago
Interesting. How did small towns in the past get created or become medium towns? Guessing there simply weren't those services. I wonder what was the last town in a america to be established? Are there suitable areas within 1.5 hour drive of a major one?
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  >How did small towns in the past get created People in the 1800s and before didn't worry much about medical services. When they got sick, they suffered with it, or died. The state-of-the-art with medicine at the time could be handled by one doctor. Expectations these days are a lot higher. >I wonder what was the last town in a america to be established? That's a good question, and probably impossible to answer without some qualifiers. I'm sure some new "towns" have been created in the recent past which were really nothing more than an incorporation of a previously-unincorporated area immediately outside another municipality, but that's altogether different from establishing an all-new town far from any other settlement, as was probably common in the 1800s expansion westward.

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Where are the retirees going to get medical services? Some tiny town isn't going to have a hospital or any other medical services, and retired people need that

by shiroiushi 2y ago

Where are the retirees going to get medical services? Some tiny town isn't going to have a hospital or any other medical services, and retired people need that more than anyone else.

toomuchtodo 2y ago
Average travel time to an acute care facility for someone in rural America furthest from a facility (a quarter of rural population) is about 34 minutes. Assuming ~55mph country roads, that gives you a ~30 mile radius from rural hospitals where you can site. Closer is better but your constraint is price per acre, broadly speaking. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/12/12/how-far-americans-live-from-the-closest-hospital-differs-by-community-type/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/12/12/how-far-a...
blinded 2y ago
Interesting. How did small towns in the past get created or become medium towns? Guessing there simply weren't those services. I wonder what was the last town in a america to be established? Are there suitable areas within 1.5 hour drive of a major one?
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  >How did small towns in the past get created People in the 1800s and before didn't worry much about medical services. When they got sick, they suffered with it, or died. The state-of-the-art with medicine at the time could be handled by one doctor. Expectations these days are a lot higher. >I wonder what was the last town in a america to be established? That's a good question, and probably impossible to answer without some qualifiers. I'm sure some new "towns" have been created in the recent past which were really nothing more than an incorporation of a previously-unincorporated area immediately outside another municipality, but that's altogether different from establishing an all-new town far from any other settlement, as was probably common in the 1800s expansion westward.