That's a prudent plan but...I'm planning to stay afloat when the Algore melting Arctic snowball Armeggadon comes.
Posted on 10/05/2009 5:57:56 PM PDT by Lorianne
They represent a migration that turns conventional wisdom on its head. Urban planners have until now proceeded on the assumption that retiring baby boomers will downsize to a high-rise and spend their days lapping lattes and taking the streetcar to the art museum.
A lot of them will. But new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture says baby boomers will head to the country in big numbers, in the Northwest changing the face of rural Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
And it's not just because the 83 million boomer generation is the largest in U.S. history and all of their movements are out-sized. Demographers are talking about a genuine "deconcentration" of population near metro centers. Urban areas will see a net loss of people age 55 to 75, while in non-metro areas that age group will increase by 1.6 million nationally during the next 10 years.
Migrating boomers will have an especially deep impact on small towns and rural counties on the outer ring of Oregon's metro areas. If you're the economic development director of a small town in a scenic setting, researchers say, you'd be better off developing golf courses and bike trails than competing with every other city to lure the next big manufacturing plant. While you're at it, make sure your medical facilities are up to date.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Easier said than done.
The “Vermoting” of the rural Pacific Northwest?
I’d rather they stayed in the city. They move to my tiny town and aren’t happy so they try to bring the city with them.
There goes the neighborhood....
Not ready to accept this with the suspicion that the powers that be today really want gas prices to jump to $10/gallon or more, thus a boon to cities and a bust to rural towns. Their agenda is crap-n-trade, no drilling onshore or offshore, no more nuke plants, decimate coal... we’ll all be living in those city high rises in short order.
Buy 2 acres for $10K, put a Katrina Cottage on it and get by on Social Security.
You’re screwed.
Selfish pricks.
They’re sure to bring their failed liberal thinking to the farmlands and screw up the red rural areas. Liberals destroy everything they touch.
*insert your string of cuss words here*
Nooooo. I don’t want them out here. Bunch of whiny babies, complaining that we don’t have this and we don’t have that.
Why the heck did you move here then? Let me guess, so you could cash out the only savings you had, which was your house. Now you can buy cheaper out here, pay off your credit card debt with the difference and try to live more cheaply out here in the boonies.
It’s not just the oldsters clearing out of urban areas.
Democrats and other lefties are turning cities into holding pens for the moocher class with spiraling costs paid with higher and higher taxes for others who are stuck there.
These rural areas wouldn’t happen to be located in states without income taxes, would they?
We’re thinking we need to make a place for the kids and grandkids to go to when TSHTF.
That's a prudent plan but...I'm planning to stay afloat when the Algore melting Arctic snowball Armeggadon comes.
Oh, please...stay away from Southern Oregon!!!
Ed
Just what we need out west, more damn hippies.
Darn right we’re getting out of the cities.
We’re sick of the grafitti, the filth, the noise and the rapid deterioration of society. The cities are being overrun with barbarians as each successive generation on handouts does a poorer job of socializing their fatherless children.
We don’t want to be here for the coming pandemics, or water shortages or pogroms against the remaining civilized residents
If they move to my local, they’ll get tired of having to travel 70 miles to the nearest Starbucks and after being subjected to the reality that global warming is myth, they’ll head straight home, or like many...to Portland or Eugene to hang out with the rest of the libs that preceded them.
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