Comments by "" (@jasonreed7522) on "Why are small towns disappearing?" video.

  1. A much less talked about form of gentrification than what urban communities face is what rural communities face. Often a lake will have a small hamlet or town on/near it and the super rich will buy as much property as possible and drive up land values until the locals are incapable of owning anything amd they turn a public body of water into their own private lake. (Personally this should be illegal and punishable with prison time) But even just a normal small farming community could face similar problems if overly rich folk drive up property values above what local jobs can pay for.
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  2. I'm from Canton NY its pop is 6,500, and its the standard town size in the area, the legal cities are 10,600 (Ogdensburg), and 12,100 (Massena) the closest real cities are either Canada's Montreal and Ontario (both around 2+hrs driving) or Syracuse NY at 3hrs south. The Closest interstate was well over an hour away in Watertown. And that is Paradise to me. I can't even comprehend how anyone could want to live in a real city like NYC which is at the opposite end of the spectrum from my corner of the state. Our county started a bussing program a while back (inter town is the only thing that makes sense, and helping the college kids get around the towns but i believe the colleges pay for that privilege on behalf of the students). I sat through a town board meeting once (for school) and one of the issues discussed was about the Amish bringing to many chickens on the bus. Also anyone who bitches about bikers being a hazard on the road can shut it until they come drive in Amish country and almost kill themselves, the Amish family, and the horse because the Amish refuse to put any reflectors on solid black buggys and drive at night in the rain, my dad drives school bus and dreads the day a bus-buggy accident kills a bus of children which is what it will take to enforce that basic safety to use the roads. (Religious exemption has to stop at endangering the welfare of others)
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