>
> It is possible to have an economic "island" with minimal
> manufacturing. In the olden days, there was the blacksmiths,
> woodworkers and masons that manufactured things. There were
> the farmers that grew the food. Pretty much everybody else
> was service-industry.
>
<<SNIP>>
>
> Now what? People moved here FOR the jobs, it's only logical
> that they move FROM here because of jobs. The ghosttowns
> of the west exist for that very reason. No harm, no foul.
>
Some of those ghosttowns have become the resource themselves. Bodie,
California is now a state park and is one of the more interesting tourist traps
between Las Vegas and Reno. Oatman, Arizona is almost a ghosttown except for
some turqouise mining nearby. Tombstone, Bisbee, and Jerome all survive mostly
on tourist trade. When the gold, silver, lead, borax etc. played out everyone
just walked away.
Chris
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