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Rural Towns Are Aging, Cash-Strapped and in Desperate Need of Workers (www.wsj.com)
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With younger labor in short supply, aging workers often find themselves pulling double—or triple—duty to keep towns afloat

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[–] MisterNeon 21 points 4 months ago

I didn't realize Canada was having the same problems.

I used to be a mobile printer and computer repair man driving to small towns in Texas. What I learned was those towns were terrible and the people were not fun to be around. These towns are not going to stop the aging demographics from growing if they make quality of life worse than what it is now.