people like to say that "life in the country moves at a slower pace" well, wake up call: so does life in Mexico and Kenya ...and there's a reason people try to flee from those places
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i watched this happen in the small town i grew up in. there were competent business people when i was a little kid. vibrant main street shops and such. by the time i went to college they’d all retired and their kids moved to cities...

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One of the best carpenter’s I knew growing up moved from my rural area to a booming vacation are of the state because he could get paid more (and more steadily) for his skills.
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I grew up in an area that was mostly full of post-industrial structural unemployment. With one exception, who stuck around because he was raised by a single mother and felt it would've been wrong to leave her on her own, everybody with any get up and go got up and went.
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This implies that the (very real) issues you highlight were less bad in the past, and could be improved. My question is, how many folks with citified expectations do you need in a given area to start incentivizing higher performance?
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Of course, there will always be lower competition in lower-density places. So higher expectations will only go so far in a place where there's only a handful of potential bidders on any job.
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I wonder how the experience shifts when you’ve been entrenched in an area for a generation or two. I’ve had similar experiences to what you describe. I’ve also had my wife’s cousin call a guy and have a drywall guy show up the next day. Associations matter in the boonies.
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Dude, you live in noWeare
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