@Anonymous , your not taking the thread far off the path, its all connected, luckily the US has lots of choices unlike many of the old world epicenters that have lots of people and very little land available. Covid may actually have hastened a move to the country that has been a long time coming. Old US Cities which were inappropriately used as congregate centers to serve the tired and poor handouts have become unsustainable and vestigial at the same time. Re-rurafication is the answer to decompressing the poverty congestion that ensures those trapped only see folks in the same hopeless/ helpless shape as they.
Government supported housing and projects in big cities were good for Government, thats why they put them there together in little boxes with no room to grow. It was easier to distribute and communicate with people when a wired telephone at best and a mail box most likely was all we had to keep track of folks that needed services, welfare, food stamps, mental and medical health, education or training.
Like most Business travel and even many offices- thanks to Cell Phones, internet and Zoom, compacting people into poverty silos is not necessary anymore nor is it good for the folks it was designed to assist. As a proud Ruratarian , I can say that there are lots of villages, towns, lands and places to live out here where there is no wrong side of the tracks and folks of all types, incomes, colors and religions live side by side (with space between to spare) and there are opportunities they would never have in trash compactor inner city colonies that have been the death of so many good people since they were created.
Those of us that live and thrive in the boonies have been living pretty well during the Pandemic not just hanging out in egg carton apartments hoping not to die from the neighbors covid breath in our air ducts. Our Nation is land rich and resettlement throughout the country is the future that makes sense for all that want a better life for their loved ones, its a pathway to living the American dream not dying in sprawl and urban decay. Thats my 2 Phennig for what thats worth Andrew, Stay well, JR