It's wild that there are towns in America that will literally pay you to move there, while college towns in California like Davis and Chico have some of the most dysfunctional housing markets in the world.
Much of the economic wealth of the last 40 years has gone to the coastal states, while draining from the middle of the country. The loss of manufacturing in the path towards financialization of the economy really hollowed out opportunities in states like Indiana and West Virginia. (Though West Virginia has always kinda been on the shitlist)
