Rural America gaming popularity
By Jerry Webb
University of Delaware
NEWARK, Del. - A lot of back-to-lhe-land movement,
people must be thhnking People who know little or
favorably about life in rural nothing about rural America
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America these days. Census
figures indicate a growing
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or farms or the countryside,
or anything else
agricultural, are making the
move to the country.
According to Agriculture
Department estimates, at
least 350,000 persons are
moving from urban to rural
communities each year.
That’s m stark contrast to
the net loss of about 300,000
each year that were leaving
rural America during the
60’s. Now that’s not to say
that everyone who leaves
the city and goes to
rural America plans to
become a farmer. A lot of
them are moving to small
towns scattered across the
country, where they expect
to find a better life than the
urban rat race they left.
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Some of these people are
bound to be disappointed.
Because swapping an urban
life'for a rural one involves
more than just changing
addresses. Many people who
are disappointed with life m
the city are going to be
equally disappointed with
life in rural America,
especially if they don’t
understand it or are un
willing to adjust to it.
The Agriculture Depart
ment’s Rural Development
Service says city folk don’t
have to be disappointed or
frustrated when they move
to the country. It suggests
that city people who are
planning such a move check
first on available jobs,
housing, and services that
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are m the area where they
plan to relocate. Some
communities welcome new
residents and are equipped
to handle them. Others have
limited opportunities and
facilities and more people
only add to their existing
problems.
A lot of people who move to
rural America are looking
for land. They want space
room for a garden, a place to
keep a horse, maybe a few
acres so they can do some
part-time farming while
they continue their regular
employment. Here in the
urbanized East that dream
is getting more and more
difficult to attain. Land
prices are unreasonable and
land is unavailable. Not
many farmers want to sell
off ten or 20 acre parcels to
urbanites so they can build
their dream homes, com
plete with dog kennels, pony
barns and equipment sheds.
Often the only compromise
that exists is a lot
somewhere in the country.
Maybe one of a dozen houses
along a country road, each
on a half acre of ground
barely big enough for a
garden. Or the other choice
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more meat or milk per acre And you stop using costly
fuel for drying gram Now and forever
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Hogs
is a very expensive and
complete agricultural unit
that occasionally comes up
for sale. But the price tag on
such property is usually
prohibitive.
Live in the country is still a
dream to a lot of people. As it
becomes easier to live in
rural America, I think the
trend is going to accelerate.
Survey after survey shows
that a large part of
America’s population would
prefer to live on the land.
Their second choice seems to
be a rural town
somewhere close to the
land with a lot of open
space, fresh air, sunshine
and trees. Few people, given
a choice, prefer an urban
environment as the best
place to raise a family, or for
that matter, to enjoy
retirement. Of course rural
people have thought this all
the tune. That’s one of the
reasons they’ve endured the
hardships and the low in
come that has been
characteristic of fanning for
so many years. They like life
in rural America. Ap
parently a lot of other people
do also.
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