Long ago I worked as an engineer for NASA. Imagine my surprise when I learned that my neighbor across the street is also a former NASA engineer! He's done amazing things renovating his home.
The young people around here are amazing too. I would adopt them all if I could.
I spent some time in a dying factory town in PA. The older people were the most welcoming Generous, helpful people I have ever met. 60 years ago that town must have been a wonder.
There is a major drug problem among the young. The first hints of black and Hispanic flashy young outsider men to take over the drug trade.
And the health care system there slow-walked my friend’s cancer diagnosis. Two months from first diagnostic scan to seeing oncologist. He lives in another state, rides a circuit, in town.once every week or two. They could have told my friend she needed to go to the big city, and they didn’t.