SOME manufacturing is returning, while others continue to be subsidized by by tax payers to move oversees - a Republican initiative which 'curiously' they have stymied all efforts to reverse.
Likewise those that move to less populated areas are imported from cities, again, lured by subsidies as well as the lure of cheaper costs. The number of factories and large businesses started in rural areas is how far above zero? Joe Bob's Hot Sauce tastes great, but that ain't hiring millions anytime soon.
The best part? Guess where most of their workers come from? Turns out sweating for a living sucks real bad. In places like Nevada, Somalis - let me repeat, S-O-M-A-L-I-S - are bussed in form other States to work at meat packing plants @ $15p/hr. This was at the HEIGHT of the Great Recession, mind you. Yup, suicideville Nevada, the last stop in a quest for jobs, Americans there would rather kill themselves than work meat for a measly $15p/hr.
People leave expensive big citities because they're expensive. Sloughing off reseidents at a far faster clip is rural areas, the family farm especially rapidly becoming a thing of the past (see sweating above).
Some of those departing those cities end up in subdivsions carved out of said farms, much to the chagrin of farmers still trying to make a go of it, as infrastructure and various amenities improve for the recent arrivals and the lure of abandoning the farm grows with developers dangling dollars in front of the noses of kids who would rather play their Xbox in a suburban house next door than stuck miles from the nearest neighbor.
Other city migrants move to smaller cities and towns, often dying themselves, causing a revitilization, often much to the consternation of locals. Turns out Allentown PA residents would rather not see Puerto Ricans from the South Bronx move into their dilapidated downtown, even if they are bringing them back to life.
In other areas such rebirths have been courtesy of immigrants, including illegals, again, not popular. Since the recession many of those places have granted the locals their wish, as those have moved out, leaving those places to continue on their rightful road to death.
Incidentally, said immigrants do something languishing locals haven't - create jobs. 70% of all small business starts are by immigrants, and their growing numbers also invigorate already existing businesses.
Translation: If rural areas could do it on their own, they would have. But they can't, so they don't.
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