“I witnessed this long years ago in rural Wisconsin. Main Street was dying and the explanation was that a Wal-Mart had opened sixty miles away.”
Yeh, good observation. I grew up around small towns and being a avid hunter spend a good amount of time in and near them. There’s no doubt that the center of the US is hallowing out. Stores, businesses, schools, churches are closing. When I drive around these small towns these days I feel like I’m living a Toby Keith song. But, the reason these towns are dying isn’t because of the Walmarts and such. It’s because the culture HS changed, Internet, social media, mobility, opportunity in the urban areas. Example; what young person wants to sit a Dairy Queen in the middle of the Big Empty when he/she could be in Big D making good money, meeting new people, heck- having fun.
“It’s because the culture HS changed, Internet, social media, mobility, opportunity in the urban areas. Example; what young person wants to sit a Dairy Queen in the middle of the Big Empty when he/she could be in Big D making good money, meeting new people, heck- having fun.”
Your exactly right. Times change. For a while malls were the new hang out place. In the 80’s and early 90’s malls were the thing. Now you can find dead and dying malls all over. Before Walmart was K mart, Before K Mart was Sears. Keep up with the times of die. That is life.