š·: historic downtown Stamford photo via Roy Weaks Thanks for reading West of 98! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. What does it take to actually revitalize a rural community? This is obviously a question that I have wrestled with for quite some time. āAttract more peopleā is the easy answer, right? In a way, yes, but that answer is both incomplete and insufficient. People donāt move to a new place in droves without a reason, usually an economic one. It is one challenge to get them to move there. It is an entirely different challenge to get them to stay. There is a trail of wreckage across the American West of boomtowns that failed to present a lasting reason for the population to stay and then quickly turned to ghost towns, usually worse off than they were before the people came.
Essays from West of 98: Local Independence
Essays from West of 98: Local Independence
Essays from West of 98: Local Independence
š·: historic downtown Stamford photo via Roy Weaks Thanks for reading West of 98! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. What does it take to actually revitalize a rural community? This is obviously a question that I have wrestled with for quite some time. āAttract more peopleā is the easy answer, right? In a way, yes, but that answer is both incomplete and insufficient. People donāt move to a new place in droves without a reason, usually an economic one. It is one challenge to get them to move there. It is an entirely different challenge to get them to stay. There is a trail of wreckage across the American West of boomtowns that failed to present a lasting reason for the population to stay and then quickly turned to ghost towns, usually worse off than they were before the people came.