Are hollowing out rural areas causing urban areas to decline?
I have to say it seems like rural areas are winning, its sad that so much is spent on small rural areas and metro areas of less then 500,000 people. They have so little to offer unless they are very, very topographically appealing. Here in the midwest Minneapolis, Des Moines, Omaha, Wichita and Denver are being economically sacrificed by aggressive rabid rural interests that dont care about urban prosperity, they are just rural greed mongers. These rural areas are declining and yet these states still bother with road construction and school spending in these areas. Not only that medical facilities such as nursing homes shouldnt exist in smaller rural areas because its very expensive transport people to decent sized medical centers. A penny spent on a rural area unless its highly topographically appealing to potential people and may become a resort or a tourist destination or is close to major metro area is waste. Its sickening especially in Iowa and Nebraska how these rural areas just
