[jyl]

Restoring infrastructure is always going to be by priority order. Obviously a major road is going to get repaired before a minor road, and a dirt road that serves a few homes is going to be last.

On the “hollowing out” of that area, and countless other rural areas, what exactly is the solution? What will cause a company to locate a factory, logistics facility, semiconductor fab, data center, etc there?

Unless someone can solve that puzzle, the area had to play the cards it was been dealt. Natural beauty, cute old town, artists, brewers - what’s the best hand you can make from that? Desirable tourist and affluent retirement and college town seem pretty logical.

I don’t know if those are still the cards, or if some of them are gone and not coming back. That’s kind of what I’m trying to ask in this thread.