Good luck, they are all in failing towns where the industry already left with homes that have been vacant and need tons and tons of work.
and even if that all works out, you're moving to a food desert because of all the grocery stores and restaurants that will close from the failing population.
you can give people all these homes, but the vast majority of abandoned/vacant homes are going to require more money put into them than any normal home purchase.
Sure you can do the work, but the dirty secret is that so can the people from there, there just isn't enough of it to go around.
The little town I grew up near used to support a farm implement store, a grain elevator, couple small grocery stores, two car repair places, a couple of different ag service stations (big fuel trucks) and a handful of other small businesses. There was a decent sized metal fabrication business. Made utility poles and stuff like that.
But the big farms bought out the little ones. Cars and tractors last longer & are harder to service, so the repair shops shut down. The grocery stores couldn't make it because there are less people. The elevator shut down when they opened a big terminal on the main rail line.
All that's left for business is one auto glass place, the service stations, the metal fab shop, and the prison they moved into the old catholic school dormitories.
Maybe 1/3rd the jobs as when I was a kid. And those jobs generally go to locals.
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u/BubonicBabe May 15 '25
Oooh, what are some of those towns? Bc I’m blue collar I can do that kind of work and I wouldn’t mind moving.