[CoachKandSportsguy]

The Virus Sent Droves to a Small Town. Suddenly, It’s Not So Small. - The New York Times

an interesting read, and know friends' and relatives who have done the same.

After thinking about this happening around the country, demographics have been changing

sportsguy

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

The Virus Sent Droves to a Small Town. Suddenly, It’s Not So Small. - The New York Times

an interesting read, and know friends' and relatives who have done the same.

After thinking about this happening around the country, demographics have been changing

sportsguy

Interesting. Covid, also taxes and crime in mismanaged cities. Hope they don’t spoil the town by bringing their city ways with them like particle board apartments.

[manaboutown]

The pandemic in combination with the abilities to work remotely via modern technology is changing the demographic landscape. That's for sure.

What has happened and continues to occur in many large urban areas is the elephant in the room. If I had children to raise and school, I would have moved into a safe small community by now.

My son moved his family to a beautiful small town in Idaho three years ago where they love it.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

wondering about how this will change the census and the federal dollar allocations. . . just points to ponder. . . though nothing i can do but observe and watch, and then see the outcome.

My parents moved us next to the indian reservations in MA in the mid 60s. . . (figure of speech for those who are literal, means very rural)

sportsguy

[justjim]

The missing piece in these small towns is jobs. This move is great for retirees with a pension income. Others maybe not so much. I’ve seen this happen in the small town I grew up where more and more people that move in are below the poverty level and many on public aid. Most with skills and additional education/training move away to where the jobs are located. The better jobs left when the coal mines closed and the manufacturing moved to Mexico. These reasonably good paying jobs have never been replaced or they were replaced with minimum wages that are below poverty level. Today grandchildren, nieces and nephews, with few exceptions, must leave the small towns to find jobs, further their education/training, in order to find opportunity to fulfill their American dreams.

There has been much talk from Leaders about bringing the jobs back but that is mostly what it is just talk - especially during election years.

[vintageogauge]

Originally Posted by justjim

The missing piece in these small towns is jobs. This move is great for retirees with a pension income. Others maybe not so much. I’ve seen this happen in the small town I grew up where more and more people that move in are below the poverty level and many on public aid. Most with skills and additional education/training move away to where the jobs are located. The better jobs left when the coal mines closed and the manufacturing moved to Mexico. These reasonably good paying jobs have never been replaced or they were replaced with minimum wages that are below poverty level. Today grandchildren, nieces and nephews, with few exceptions, must leave the small towns to find jobs, further their education/training, in order to find opportunity to fulfill their American dreams.

There has been much talk from Leaders about bringing the jobs back but that is mostly what it is just talk - especially during election years.

As noted a lot of these people leaving the city have jobs that allow hem to work from home, many of them high paying jobs. If anything this influx will help the smaller communities giving small businesses a better opportunity to succeed, more tax revenues for schools, property values most likely will go up. We left a town of about 20,000 when we retired and moved down here, since Covid started, homes are selling now at much higher prices there, usually more than asking and are on the market only a few days.

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by vintageogauge

As noted a lot of these people leaving the city have jobs that allow hem to work from home, many of them high paying jobs. If anything this influx will help the smaller communities giving small businesses a better opportunity to succeed, more tax revenues for schools, property values most likely will go up. We left a town of about 20,000 when we retired and moved down here, since Covid started, homes are selling now at much higher prices there, usually more than asking and are on the market only a few days.

According to Zillow the value of my son's house in a bucolic town of 7,200 on a large lake in Idaho has gone up almost 40% in less than three years. They have a ski resort there as well as an Amtrak stop.

[jbrown132]

Originally Posted by John41

Interesting. Covid, also taxes and crime in mismanaged cities. Hope they don’t spoil the town by bringing their city ways with them like particle board apartments.

Unfortunately, this is what happens. You have a nice small quit town where people have lived the same way for generations. Then all these city people move there seeking out peace and quiet but they seldom leave their city views behind. They want everything to be just like it was where they came from. The town changes and the poor people who’s families have lived there for generations are left behind. Have seen this in both New Hampshire and Vermont.

[Bay Kid]

Our small towns around the bay are selling homes like hotcakes. Not much here will change, hopefully. No new homes, just lots of resales.

Can't blame them for leaving the God forsaken cities. Virus, protest and more protest.

We still love and respect our police in the country.

[Joe C.]

What I find funny, is that all these people are moving into a small town, but are they building new homes? No....they are just moving into existing homes. So, evidently, the town's population had shrunk over the years (children leaving for other places as they grew up).
But I do understand the angst of having flatlanders move into rural areas. I left a town in Vermont (pop. 500) to move down here.

[davem4616]

these huge cities who's leaders seemingly have been tolerating the looting and rioting will have an awakening when they realize how much their tax base has reduced and how many of the folks that used to live there and actually paid taxes have moved out

[Manhoopty]

Consider the source

[LianneMigiano]

The census asked where you were on APRIL 1ST... Very few folks had begun to move that soon into the shutdown.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

The Virus Sent Droves to a Small Town. Suddenly, It’s Not So Small. - The New York Times

an interesting read, and know friends' and relatives who have done the same.

After thinking about this happening around the country, demographics have been changing

sportsguy

Another example of there being a pre CV America and a post CV America. The 1918 Pandemic caused great migration patterns. We are now living in a vortex of social change - on a dizzying scale!