[pepsionice]

I’ve watched travel documentaries where some jeep comes over a hill and here is an enormous valley, with a 40-person village down in the middle of it....no paved road, just gravel leading in and out. It’d be a four-hour drive to reach anything that you’d consider even half-civilized. You could move a thousand people into that valley tomorrow, but then what? There’s no work, no jobs, and no future over than tending to 200 head of cattle, and tending to your garden.

[Vermont Lt]

But it would be organic. Ha ha.

[central_va]

There’s no work, no jobs, and no future over than tending to 200 head of cattle, and tending to your garden.

The same thing happened all over the USA in reverse. You had a mid sized viable cities that went under when the factory was shut down and shipped to China. But hey they all got cheap toaster ovens....

[alexander_busek]

I’ve watched travel documentaries where some jeep comes over a hill and here is an enormous valley, with a 40-person village down in the middle of it....no paved road, just gravel leading in and out. It’d be a four-hour drive to reach anything that you’d consider even half-civilized. You could move a thousand people into that valley tomorrow, but then what? There’s no work, no jobs, and no future over [sic; "other"?] than tending to 200 head of cattle, and tending to your garden.

You have just accurately described most of America as it was in the mid-19th century.

Regards,

[aquila48]

I take it you would not have been one of the guys in a covered wagon heading for the wild west.

[gnarledmaw]

Youre quite the salesman!! Ill take it! (If it wasn’t in Russia.)