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Live near Levittown and have talked to residents about it. The entire rust belt is going to shit itself soon and who knows how it'll play out.

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Most of the article is about Levittown, PA. Its no where near the rust belt.

The "rust belt" and it's socio-economic realities meander quite a bit throughout the NE

Except this particular area isn't the "rust belt".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt

Easy to way to know where the rust belt is wherever you can expect your vehicle to rust due to salting the roads in winter.

>It is made up mostly of places in the Midwest and Great Lakes, though definitions vary. Rust refers to the deindustrialization, or economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once-powerful industrial sector.

None of these things are true of the area. I've lived here for 25 years.

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