The population is still growing, however you want to slice it.
> The problem is that rural areas ("flyover states") have been left to rot: no reliable electricity grid, no public transport, basic infrastructure from grocery stores over schools to basic healthcare has closed down
This narrative also works in the UK, but where the abandoned areas are mostly coastal. Seaside towns with no tourists and no fish. Ex-mining areas. And the same problem of people becoming more rightist as they become more resource-starved, preferring the solution of demonizing people they think shouldn't get resources rather than anything else.
Fairly sure this list correlates with high votes for Brexit: https://www.moveiq.co.uk/blog/buying/10-cheapest-places-buy-... Let's have a look at Middlesborough since it's at the top and I have ancestors from there.
You can get a really cheap house in town, near plenty of infrastructure: https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/62793200/
Why is it so cheap? Well, unemployment is really high: https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/new-data-re...
And how did that happen? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/28/redcar-stee...
Not really sure what central government could do about this, but I'm fairly sure they've not even tried thinking about it.
> The problem is that rural areas ("flyover states") have been left to rot: no reliable electricity grid, no public transport, basic infrastructure from grocery stores over schools to basic healthcare has closed down
This narrative also works in the UK, but where the abandoned areas are mostly coastal. Seaside towns with no tourists and no fish. Ex-mining areas. And the same problem of people becoming more rightist as they become more resource-starved, preferring the solution of demonizing people they think shouldn't get resources rather than anything else.
Fairly sure this list correlates with high votes for Brexit: https://www.moveiq.co.uk/blog/buying/10-cheapest-places-buy-... Let's have a look at Middlesborough since it's at the top and I have ancestors from there.
You can get a really cheap house in town, near plenty of infrastructure: https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/62793200/
Why is it so cheap? Well, unemployment is really high: https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/new-data-re...
And how did that happen? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/28/redcar-stee...
Not really sure what central government could do about this, but I'm fairly sure they've not even tried thinking about it.