I agree. What are your ideas on fixing that?

I watched my grandparent’s hometown (Newton, IA) become less and less desirable over the decades after Maytag moved the factory to China. They diversified a bit by adding a race track, but it’s a shell of its former self. Cheaper offshoring (not from one party or another, but encouraged by politicians on both sides) really wrecked the economy of small US cities and towns.