Isn’t quite that cheap in Kazoo. You can drop a quarter mill pretty fast on a “nice” ranch.
On the other hand, if you are willing to “sacrifice” to make the mortgage payments, there is a subdivision, a few miles from where I grew up, that is full of original, Frank Lloyd Wright houses.
Steve
I have met people in the paint industry who say if they hire someone and get them to move, many times they don’t fit in the community and don’t stay long.
Thier solution is to work with local schools and identify the most qualified students, give them summer jobs, coach them to get the right training, and then hire them. This way you have people from the community who stay in the community. And you keep the young people who would otherwise move away for career opportunities.
People do know how to do this. The problem seems to be head in the sand (to put it politely).
And to top it off, rural areas just finished voting overwhelmingly to cut benefits that flow disproportionately to them. Because their Bible, their source of the Truth, is right wing propaganda.
That’s because rural areas are poorer than urban areas. Rural areas have higher poverty rates than urban areas. Rural areas have lower quality schools, lower quality medical care, fewer government services than urban areas.
Nobody wants to sink to a level where they are dependent on government welfare.
The other side of that equation is that the republicans give them hope, even if a false one. The repubs say you are poor because manufacturing left, and we are going to bring manufacturing back. We are going to bring coal mining back. We are going to bring that old time economy back.
The democrats provide government welfare, but present no solution to the problem. Heck, democrats don’t even bother campaigning in most of rural America. Perhaps it is time for democrats to change their strategy and start thinking about solving the rural economic problem.
How are “low interest government loans” not “being subsidized”? The government loans were offered at half the going rate of commercial loans.
The local coops buy electricity (produced elsewhere) at wholesale prices and resell it but that’s “not being subsidized”? Oh wait, let’s remember that much of the power was coming from Hoover Dam, Bonneville, and Grand Coulee, and dozens of other electrification projects paid for by, uh, government.
I’ve noticed you have a warped view of history, nearly always bent in the direction of “heroic capitalism”, when in fact it is government initiative and monies that have pushed much of our society forward, from “roads” and “clean water” to “NASA” and “public health” (and “education”) to the subsidization of the microchip industry and so much more.
That is not to diminish the contributions of free enterprise in commercializing so much that we take for granted, but without the “start up” capital and impetus, much is lost.
I wonder how many of those REA loans remain to be repaid. I suspect none. They were repaid by their users.