Why people stay after local economies collapse − a story of home among the ghosts of shuttered steel mills

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1. This holds truth for the Rust Belt Cities, but can also be seen back to smaller towns bypassed when the Interstate Highways went around their places, too or other factories closed with other globalization of the US Economy.

2. People do not want to abandon their communities. To a lot of folks it feels like a plant leaving its roots.