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June 30, 2013
Western Maine is emptying out
There are few people and no children. Fewer people and no children has been a dream of many in my lifetime. It was never mine. If you saw what it looked like, it might change even the most hardened heart about the concept. -- Sippican Cottage: I Rode A Bicycle TodayPosted by gerardvanderleun at June 30, 2013 8:59 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
People have been moving on when the sustenance gave out ever since there were people.
Posted by: BillH at July 1, 2013 9:22 AM
Ahhh . . . , Maine! Where white folks do the jobs they can't find illegal aliens for.
Maine's political class is utterly useless, especially the ones they send to Washington. All those front-row names (Muskie, Mitchell, Snowe,) and they haven't sent hardly any bacon back to their voters.
Posted by: Don Rodrigo at July 1, 2013 9:35 AM
It's not just the emptying out of the small towns, but the exodus from the streets. I travel frequently with salespeople all over the nation, and it struck me how few children I see playing, how few people I see walking, how little action is happening.
Middle class neighborhoods are deserted during the day, and the only time you see people walking or interacting in public - any time of year - is when the office spaces empty out and fill the restaurants.
From 12.15 to 1.15 delis, chain restaurants, and diners are packed. Before and after the streets are ghost towns, whether you are in Carroll Gardens (Brooklyn) or Schaumburg, IL.
The lack of face to face social interaction in daily life - whether due to households with two working parents, kids staying inside playing video games, or the rational fear of those who were once institutionalized and are now 'medicated' - is as sad a fact of the modern world as the factories lying dormant in a once thriving town.
There are exceptions, of course. The 'bad' neighborhoods in towns with high levels of progressive ideals are filled with people in the streets, all day and most of the night. This is where people are paid to stay home, get tats, and the 'Social Justice' crowd encourages all manner of parasites to partake in the EBT Fool's Gold Rush.
In those neighborhoods (which includes the areas around Portland, ME), the streets are filled with people shopping, smoking, drinking, and giving menacing looks to the folks passing through on their way to actually be productive.
Maybe, just maybe, if we didn't pay people keep their hands idle (the real cause of crime) they wouldn't leave the wild, unused lands and factories of Western Maine and beyond for the supine life of the eternally dependent.
Posted by: dan at July 1, 2013 9:54 AM