You know, your food is probably produced in these rural areas and you need infrastructure to transport that food. I don't think your "solution" is so simple and straightforward as you make it seem.
For real though that would be a situation where people were like lambs to the slaughter. People that close together are much easier to control, and that's not a good thing.
But I'm not advocating that. I'm suggesting we provide support to dying communities to voluntarily relocate to where the jobs are. Communities that are doing fine would obviously forego such an option.
I'm afraid we're talking past each other--your arguments are about economics, mine concern the right to self-determination.
I regret the blunt, clinical way I communicated this in my original post.