Saturday, February 1, 2020

Rust Belt Slums

This is what my hometown of Ft. Madison, Iowa has turned into - and Burlington, Iowa just upstream on the Mississippi River.  You can buy a house there, very cheaply, because there are no jobs there.

Also, many towns in the Industrial Midwest, that once manufactured half of all the goods produced in the entire world.

I include in this list Terre Haute, Indiana, which I discovered when I worked as an Electronics Engineer, for the FAA, and flew my own plane between jobs. I also discovered my first sexual partner there, who had severe mental problems.

I had these problems also, but they were not as severe.

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