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New Data Reveals Americans Rediscovering Small Towns
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| 03/25/2018
| Andrew Malcolm
Posted on 03/25/2018 5:42:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you’ve ever lived in a small town or city, these new census figures will not surprise you:
More Americans, especially retirees, are moving to small towns for the safer, cleaner, more affordable life. Even those younger Gen X types who put off families for the bright lights of the big city are moving out of there, usually to suburbs.
One major reason for urban flight is the rising cost of housing, which if you’re paying rent, is like burning money. City populations are still growing slightly but much less than before and mainly because of immigrant arrivals. In the last half-decade large cities have gone from population magnets to last year collectively losing nearly a half-million residents to suburbs or smaller cities.
Suburban population migration in large metropolitan areas rose one percent last year and has tripled during the last five years. Suburban developers are competing with downtowns by offering shopping and workplaces within walking distance. Plus that traditional magnet: Good schools.
Two years ago women between 30 and 34 recorded their highest birthrate in more than a half-century, higher even than those women in the 25 to 29 cohort, traditionally the prime baby-making years.
As for grandparents, they’re on the move too. The populations of areas described as retirement destinations in federal definitions grew two percent last year alone.
These include familiar locations such as snow-free communities in Florida.
But thanks to single-floor housing plans, clean air and water, stunning scenery and high-speed Internet, farther-flung residential areas like Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, now the country’s fifth fastest-growing metro area, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming are attracting thousands. Even Pennsylvania in the Gettysburg area is drawing refugees from places like Baltimore.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; flee; migration; rural; smalltowns; trends
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To: SeekAndFind
They are welcome in our small town in small numbers. But please don’t bring your progg politics.
To: certrtwngnut
RE: But please dont bring your progg politics.
No guarantee there.
A lot of liberals ruin the places they used to live with their voting habits, and then when the place they used to live becomes unlivable, they up and leave and then bring their voting habits with them, propagating the same ruin they just abandoned....
To: SeekAndFind
Well I was born in a small town
And I can breathe in a small town
Gonna die in this small town
And that’s probably where they’ll bury me
(except for those 4-5 years living in Hollywood/SoCal)
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posted on
03/25/2018 5:53:35 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
To: SeekAndFind
Gettysburg is getting people from Baltimore? Coming soon, drive by shootings in Gettysburg, by Baltimore’s ‘finest’.
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posted on
03/25/2018 5:55:47 AM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: SeekAndFind
Spend 3-4 months a year in a small mountain town of approximately 6,000 residents and absolutely love it! Yes, your options are limited but you rediscover family, community and nature.
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posted on
03/25/2018 5:56:06 AM PDT
by
Boomer One
( ToUsesn)
To: certrtwngnut
Texas and Colorado are finding those fleeing California are bringing in their liberal/progressive voting habits with them. Thus destroying the communities they fled to.
To: SeekAndFind
I wouldn’t categorize Jackson Hole as a cheap place to retire. My understanding is that it has turned into a money pit. Workers and people that want more affordable homes live in places like Victor or Driggs across the boarder in Idaho.
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posted on
03/25/2018 5:59:40 AM PDT
by
EVO X
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
03/25/2018 6:00:08 AM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
To: SeekAndFind
In our small town, many of the homes being sold by older citizens (many who lived in them for over 50 years) are being bought by couples in their late twenties and early thirties. There is a sensible population among that group. The real good thing is they’re bringing a real sense of urgency about protecting the character of the town, with good size house lots, excellent construction from long ago, safety, and sidewalks. Protect from whom? The claws of greedy contractors and the pols they paid off to enable urbanization.
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posted on
03/25/2018 6:05:09 AM PDT
by
grania
(Deplorable and ProMy ud of It!)
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
"A lot of liberals ruin the places they used to live with their voting habits, and then when the place they used to live becomes unlivable, they up and leave and then bring their voting habits with them, propagating the same ruin they just abandoned." Hey..! That sounds just like the emigrates that are pouring into our nation from every crap hole the dimocraps can find.. They have NO intentions of becoming Americans... Never did, never will....
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posted on
03/25/2018 6:09:12 AM PDT
by
unread
(Joe McCarthy was right.......)
To: SeekAndFind
We’re thinking of moving to a small city down south. Going down to look at homes in two weeks.
To: SeekAndFind
“if youre paying rent, is like burning money”
Another Real Estate shill pushing folks into the Buyer’s Boondoggle.
To Buy is great for some.
To Rent is great for some.
Each situation is different.
Buying at the top, in hindsight, is foolish.
Selling at the bottom, in hindsight, is foolish.
Where are we now? depends . . .
Triplets away at school? Maybe Grad school in the future?Buying a condo in the area could be good choice.
Still looking for the right climate, recreational opportunities and people mix? Maybe renting is a better option.
It ain’t the 1950’s. Same job expected for the next thirty years. Divorce not on your mind. Kids on the way.
Employment has changed. Family creation and dissolution has changed. Mixed families and their relationships with Kids and Pets are different today.
Owning your primary residence is a good thing, unless it isn’t.
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posted on
03/25/2018 6:20:58 AM PDT
by
Macoozie
(Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
To: SeekAndFind
This story has nothing to do with “small towns.” The author apparently has conflated “small towns” with “suburbs.”
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posted on
03/25/2018 6:23:04 AM PDT
by
Ge0ffrey
To: SeekAndFind
“A lot of liberals ruin the places they used to live with their voting habits, and then when the place they used to live becomes unlivable, they up and leave and then bring their voting habits with them, propagating the same ruin they just abandoned....”
The most irritating fact is they are never able to rationally connect their voting habits with everything going to hell in a handbasket. They want to lay it off on other issues rather than how their voting habits enabled those other issues to take root and fester.
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posted on
03/25/2018 6:26:05 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: SeekAndFind
Make sure and confirm (not ask the realtor) about internet before you move to a small town. Even though some parts of Ocala have GB internet, out here in the sticks there’s no BW available, and because the ISP is AT&T, there hasn’t been for over 8 years....
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posted on
03/25/2018 6:30:18 AM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: newfreep
But I’ve seen it all in a small town
Had myself a ball in a small town
Married an L.A. doll and brought her to this small town
Now she’s small town just like me
Read more: John Mellencamp - Small Town Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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posted on
03/25/2018 6:31:06 AM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
To: SeekAndFind
That’s what happened to western WA State in the 70-and 80s. Was the beginning of the end of small communities as these people moved in:
buying homes for cash;
pushing the price far above 2-3 years wages of the local;
taking over the community politically;
forcing the locals to more since they did not earn enough to pay the higher property taxes on homes their families had lived in for generations;
pushing the local high value business out in favor of their small one person boutiques;
and so on.
Until they leap to State government turning a state with beautiful scenery and plentiful natural resources into a s-—hole with beautiful scenery and plentiful natural resources filled with crazies, run by crazies. The only thing that keeps them there now is the beautiful scenery and plentiful natural resources. But according to reports from friends they are still moving in in mega-droves - obscure roads that saw only a handful of cars a day now are bumper to bumper ... sky high property values are now many times higher.
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posted on
03/25/2018 6:38:26 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: SeekAndFind
I thought millenials are flocking to the urban areas?
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posted on
03/25/2018 6:41:22 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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