Employment opportunities and infrastructure
Hope, opportunities, broadband internet, and access to medical care.
Walkable infrastructure+ public transport
Better web connectivity and health care. As a city boy who made the mistake of also leading a country life 1/2 the year, i feel these 2 needs can be addressed relatively easily, but are choosen not to creating a division around access.
School budgets Healthcare facilities/budgets/trained workers Rental housing stock Employment opportunities Better food access Mobile community resources
Role models in tech Training pipelines into growing rather than dying industries Cultural icons that extol the value of what we now know about taking care of yourself
Less people telling them to go to college. Small town America is built on entrepreneurial spirit and self sufficiency. Essentially they need to double down on the “country boy can survive” mentality, which is both liberating and future proof
Better question might be what does big town America need?
To be self-sufficient, hyper-local, community-oriented, regenerative and slow. The land has everything we need.
