loveandgratitude
29th July 2011, 06:00
GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE POOR
Ghost towns are a great place of like minded people to take over to form their own communities. In the 1960's a town called NIMBIN NSW went bust due to government regulations in the dairy industry. Shops closed, houses sold for nothing, farms went bankrupted. The hippie children soon discovered it and took over. They opened the hamburger places and turned them into vegetarian cafes, shops turned into emporium's from India, the barkery was turned into homebaked wholemeal breads etc. People from all over went there to join in this alternative culture. Now it is a thriving town where people from all over the world come to visit.
Some of the towns in the following article lend themselves to this sort of takeover by alternative people who want to escape the cities and form communities. Welch, West Virginia is one of those towns. Absolutely beautiful. I have posted this article as to give inspiration to people who want to escape the city and venture into the country to form communities in the USA.
In 1910 72% of Americans lived in rural areas
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019771/Ghost-towns-increase-rural-America-accounts-just-16-population.html#ixzz1TTH9J4BA
Vast swathes of the U.S. countryside are emptying and communities becoming ghost towns as rural America now only accounts for just 16 per cent of the population.
The 2010 census results suggest that by 2050 many of these areas could shrink to virtually nothing as businesses collapse and schools close.
This dramatic population implosion is the culmination of a century of migration to cities, as in 1910 the share of rural America was at 72 per cent.
In 1950 the countryside remained home to a majority of Americans, amid post-World War II economic expansion and the baby boom.
However, once busy areas have been abandoned, in South Dakota for example, the town of Scenic is up for sale for $799,000 as today just eight people live there.
Among the struggling rural areas are vast stretches of West Virginia in Appalachia. Several of the state's counties over the past decade have lost large chunks of their population following the collapse of logging and coal-mining industries.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019771/Ghost-towns-increase-rural-America-accounts-just-16-population.html
Ghost towns are a great place of like minded people to take over to form their own communities. In the 1960's a town called NIMBIN NSW went bust due to government regulations in the dairy industry. Shops closed, houses sold for nothing, farms went bankrupted. The hippie children soon discovered it and took over. They opened the hamburger places and turned them into vegetarian cafes, shops turned into emporium's from India, the barkery was turned into homebaked wholemeal breads etc. People from all over went there to join in this alternative culture. Now it is a thriving town where people from all over the world come to visit.
Some of the towns in the following article lend themselves to this sort of takeover by alternative people who want to escape the cities and form communities. Welch, West Virginia is one of those towns. Absolutely beautiful. I have posted this article as to give inspiration to people who want to escape the city and venture into the country to form communities in the USA.
In 1910 72% of Americans lived in rural areas
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019771/Ghost-towns-increase-rural-America-accounts-just-16-population.html#ixzz1TTH9J4BA
Vast swathes of the U.S. countryside are emptying and communities becoming ghost towns as rural America now only accounts for just 16 per cent of the population.
The 2010 census results suggest that by 2050 many of these areas could shrink to virtually nothing as businesses collapse and schools close.
This dramatic population implosion is the culmination of a century of migration to cities, as in 1910 the share of rural America was at 72 per cent.
In 1950 the countryside remained home to a majority of Americans, amid post-World War II economic expansion and the baby boom.
However, once busy areas have been abandoned, in South Dakota for example, the town of Scenic is up for sale for $799,000 as today just eight people live there.
Among the struggling rural areas are vast stretches of West Virginia in Appalachia. Several of the state's counties over the past decade have lost large chunks of their population following the collapse of logging and coal-mining industries.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019771/Ghost-towns-increase-rural-America-accounts-just-16-population.html