While traveling in Japan, once you get away from the cities, many of the villages have died. Just ghost towns. The young people move to the cities and they old folks die out....
bert’s rule.......
the kids move away and the old folks die
that is the story of the Anasazi in the American south west and currently in rural America
my rule is a corollary to Stephen Lekson’s rules of south west anthropology
Everybody knew everything
Distance is not a problem
there is no coincidence
” ... many of the villages have died. Just ghost towns. The young people move to the cities and they old folks die out....”
For a moment, I thought you were describing upstate New York.