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I can't wait until people are required to move back to cities for in office work. Small towns are becoming faceless neighborhoods of urban areas with a SouthWest or JetBlue commute. New residents want to ignore their neighbors and put up gates to their home. Small towns have heart because people interact with each other and work to make the community better.

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This is a romantic view that ignores that many, if not most, small towns in the rural US are dying.

I'm from Missouri and I can tell you that most of the small towns are not idyllic rural paradises. They are farming towns which now have no purpose, no young people, and serious drug and suicide problems. These are not all friendly places.

They would all KILL to have an influx of young energetic people move in. They want to see the town survive.

I grew up in a small town in the south. We were the first Asian family in the town and dealt with a lot of racism in the 1980's. When I went to college in a big city the weekly racist comments were basically gone. I'm not saying that racism doesn't exist in larger cities but it is far better than small towns.

We had two KKK rallies through the town square in my town in the 80's. We have so many right wing racists in positions of power now that I have no interest in living in a small town again.

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