• Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    The problem isn’t just small towns like this where the clock stopped 70 years ago, it’s huge portions of the South.

    Gentrification from blue states isn’t happening because the services needed (high speed internet) aren’t available in small towns like this, and, because of other problems, nobody from the outside wants to live there.

    Alabama ranks #44/50 on a “Best States” list:

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings

    40 Crime & Corrections
    33 Economy
    44 Education
    20 Fiscal Stability
    44 Health Care
    36 Infrastructure
    47 Natural Environment
    32 Opportunity