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Originally Posted by soup sandwich
Look, I have doubts that "a lot" is that many people. For example, in the 2000 census of East Liverpool, OH (mentioned in Sebby's link), there were 13,089 people, 5,261 households, and 3,424 families residing in the city. That's an awful lot of sick parents and family businesses keeping those folks there. How many thousands are just hanging around? Waiting for what? I want to understand this part.
Somewhere in their family tree they have an ancestor who hopped on a boat with all their possessions in a bag and started a new life in the US. These folks won't even hop a greyhound to Bismarck. How come?
I take some solace in that the 2010 census shows a reduction to 11,195 people, 4,601 households, and 2,892 families residing in the city.
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I don't know Ohio or other places, but I know my little corner of upstate NY.
If you look at my friends from growing up, everyone in the top of the class has left; everyone. Of the people I know who are still there, one ran into pretty severe drug problems and needed care from their family; one has been in and out of jail; two had family farms; one had a family construction company; one a family store; one stayed to take care of their mother and sister; one left but moved back to take care of their father, and that's it. Three others who stuck around are dead (drugs, car crash, most recent one was cancer). And a bunch of the rest I've lost touch with, there may be a couple more. I last caught up with a bunch of them when I went back for my father's funeral two years ago.
What I can't figure out is why other people have moved into town to fill up the spaces left by those who left. I mean, other than the family who opened the Indian restaurant there, which is really, really, really welcome.
The area went for Trump 48% to 47%. I'm assuming that little group of remnants from my class is pretty representative, though.
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