It's really pretty nuts - 25 years ago, New England still was studded with shoe shops and textiles and other consumer manufacturing that has since all been outsourced to Bangalesh or Vietnam or wherever. Likewise, there used to be so many paper mills on the major rivers, like the Androscoggin in Maine, that you wouldn't be surprised if you pulled out fish looking like the one on The Simpsons... Or on the Merrimac river, where they are still pulling old cars off the bottom with mafiosos in the trunk.
Now most of those old 19th century mill buildings are transitioning into dorm-like hipster studio apartments.
Now most of those old 19th century mill buildings are transitioning into dorm-like hipster studio apartments.