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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The US needs to simply spread out more.  We have a HUGE country full of livable land, but we keep concentrating more and more people and jobs in the same locations.

[b]I get it - who wants to move to *gasp* the mid-west, because there is nothing to do!  I[/b]t's a chicken/egg problem.  People don't move to open areas of the country because there is nothing there so companies don't move there because talent is too hard to attract. But if companies don't move there, nothing gets developed that'd entice people to move.

Maybe there should be plans in place for a Marshall Plan for our own country.  Develop huge swaths of the mid-West and South to attract more investment and development.  Spread the wealth and population out more evenly throughout the country.  [/quote]

See this is the problem though and it's not even really true. [b]We moved to the Midwest (Finger Lakes region of upstate NY) [/b]so my husband could take an executive level job. I was against it at first for the reason you mention but eventually learned how wrong and short sighted I was being about it.

First, he has a great job making upwards of 500k so it's not true that high paying jobs don't exist in these parts. Housing is cheap here so we were able to buy our house in cash with no mortgage. Our money goes a lot farther with no mortgage or other debt so we are putting a TON of money into our kids' college accounts and retirement and spending a lot on traveling every year besides (50-60k). And there is plenty of stuff to do for family oriented people - lots of nearby state parks for hiking and boating in the summer, skiing in the winter, festivals all summer long.

It's probably not exciting for young people in their twenties but for people in their thirties and forties with kids? It's great. Our neighborhood is sandwiched in between one major R1 university, two small colleges, and a nationally ranked hospital so we have lots of highly educated, liberal people as our neighbors. We're a blue dot in an otherwise red area. But I never interact or even come into contact with those conservative people so who cares. [/quote]

I'm from the Finger Lakes area (born in Corning).  Since when is NY State any part of the Midwest?  What the hell are you talking about?

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