Those places will not get richer, they will slide, inexorably, into disrepair and destruction. Slowly at first, then faster and faster, until they are nothing but hollowed out shells, stripped of every last bit of scrap that can be turned into cash.
The residents, incapable of providing the means necessary to protect their own property, will become feral animals, attacking anyone who has more than they do.
The rural areas will become the targets of roving gangs of hungry hordes that will either kill or be killed in the fight for survival, with no mercy or human compassion for any.........
Sounds like Mad Max. But this hasn’t happened in Europe...yet.
Personally, I’m close enough to Canada to think of it as an escape route. Amazing,...American citizens who have paid taxes all their lives looking for an escape from the country of their birth..the former beacon of freedom.
Part of me hopes that zero and his minions end up with nothing but a pile of steaming $hit and the hoards of obamatakers screaming for gimmes.
I can dream...still.
What! It’s going to get bad in rural areas?