What Would It Take to Spark a Rural/Small-Town Revival?

[Crow BarKeymaster]

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2019/05/what-would-it-take-to-spark-ruralsmall.html

I think that depends.
I recall someone living in Bolder CO, complaining about the number of people moving to the city from CA. Why were they moving there? As CHS points out, the high cost of living on the West coast. Well, once they got there this transplants then got involved in politics, and then pass laws and taxes similar to the ones they just left CA to get away from.

[namelusParticipant]

Any disease outbreak from overseas human to human will start in big city, a few deaths and some will move.

 

Inability to get food probably too late but might just see a partial supply chain break down

 

Shft bunker can’t build in city unless you are government

[WhirlibirdParticipant]

Would we really want a rural/small town revolution?

The “return” of many to small town life would immediately and permanently change the rural life.

First they would bring their big city issues with them, drugs, crime, overpriced everything.

Second the attitudes.

Thirdly, the small resource base of the rural area would be stretched beyond the limits. Infrastructure that is already maxed out, sewers, water, power, it can’t keep up.

Then there’s the prices, compare a 40 acre lot today to ten, twenty, thirty years ago. And housing. What happens when people with money start moving in? Californians who have to reinvest their house sale monies or pay taxes will cause prices to do what?

Back to the land sounds well and good, until you look past the facade.

[WhirlibirdParticipant]

FYI, the person complaining about people moving to Boulder, and Colorado in general was me.

Friend of mine used to do a good folk cover of this song, I sometimes wonder if it was a curse instead of a dream.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by  Whirlibird.

[namelusParticipant]

I would say depends @whirlibird, I honestly think if we are to reach sustainable environment we have too many away from food production and into other fields. I believe ratio is 1% pop support everyone else in food.

 

To get away from factory machine farms, more people will be required to pick and manually do the work on a permanent culture smaller plot farm. Would have to go to atleast 5 percent workers in a farm setting. There would be some support structures changed but if we don’t a collapse of food supply is a matter of when not if.

Green roof tops in city should be atleast some food production ie berry bushes, some vegitables. More fuel is used transporting goods to city from other countries than is used in production.

 

Also area development should be confined by these things. Available water, sewage management, food supply,  buiness needs, land type.  The codex alamentarius is about mass consentration of people and rest of land for farming or other use….. not a good idea having dense housing in areas where not enough water or built in hurricane/flood/tornado areas without pre planing and accounting for these elements.

 

Keep the rural already agricultural land reserve. Keep the fame under 1 section ranches no more than 3. It makes it manageable by humans not using mechanicanicle means all the time.  If the land has to be used for farming it limits price.

 

Make kids/adults go to farming operations either in the city or out so not clueless about food.

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