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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: vdjor AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] suburbia becomes untenable with rising gas costs
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:29:31 -0500


On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:33 AM, VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:

Do you think there will be any trend away from rural suburbia? And do you think that gasoline might become unavailable, or so expensive that average income families won't have enough money to buy?

How do you define rural suburbia?

Polls for the last twenty years show that most Americans would prefer to live in a small town or rural place. So that is a constant demographic tension. The migration in and out of cities and rural areas is a reaction to various and changing economic conditions, mostly where the income can be earned. High urban real estate prices are one reason people keep moving further out. Right now fast rising gas prices are a trigger causing some commuters to rethink their housing. Stir that into the economic mix with a down and uncertain housing market and people will do what they need to do, rather than what they want to do.

Retirees whose income arrives in the mail can still live in rural areas. Telecommuters will increasingly live in rural areas.

No, I don't think gasoline will become unavailable or priced so high that ordinary people can't buy it.




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