yeah

its a slow cycle
LA is where hollywood and industry is
lots of slackers move to LA, LA becomes more expensive, due to higher job demand, wages go down
due to higher costs, taxes go up
Rich-people bail, and all tahts left is poorness

there is no good way to stop this cycle without either creating leeches that don't work but take money from the government, or banning movement between areas

a good way (albeit expensive and very revolutionary) would be to digitalise work environments, where you can work from home across country

that doesn't really change it

well, more accurately, it just changes where people move to, but not why.

i think you misunderstand,

I mean like, you sit the heart of rural Kentucky or something, and you log into a computer over in Silicon valley

you buy a plot of land for cheap, you build a nice house on it. Other people follow the same idea, so the cost of buying a house in that area starts to go up. Eventually it gets to a point where even rich people think it costs to much, so they move.

like i said, it changes WHERE they can buy that cheap land. but doesn't fix the problem of buying cheap, then making it expensive, so you need to go somewhere else to buy cheap again.

how so? with that, you have no demand to be somewhere specific to work/live

You can just go to any state where its "cheapest" and settle

yes, but unless you build your house and keep your house at the level of cheapness as the surrounding area, you making your house any nicer raises the value of that area.

copy and paste enough times and you are no longer a "cheap" area. so people look elsewhere.

your point? You're there already, and other people can look elsewhere, cuz they too can just work from any spot

you don't have to settle in any expensive areas anymore because you can work from anywhere

my point is these movements, as you said, are slow. they don't happen over night.

i never said that it would, in fact i said it would be very expensive and you'd have to overthrow the current way of working

i said it in reference to you saying that there simply is no good way

you miss my point. Digitizing only changes WHERE people move to, not WHY.

my point is there is no good way to stop the why

but why would they move?

most people move these days for work reasons, or if wealthy enough, to enjoy life

people, not individuals.

people, as a whole, the masses, trends

yes but why do they?

idk, maybe because kids don't like to live with their parents?

people don't move to LA for the steel-industry

People move to other cities mainly for work reasons

and to start a living in the area you just built up and made nice is too expensive? So they move away from home. Then you get old, can't afford where you live, so you move. or you downgrade

oh, wait, i see the disconnect.

i was using cities as an example of a small scale version of the poor state problem you mentioned before

aaah

and i was talking about population movements

then yes, it wouldn't affect much if we go by your background

this is why i said it changes the where, not the why. Digitizing would make movements into poorer (which usually means cheaper) states easier, because they are not tied down as much by work. But it wouldn't stop there being that cycle of the rich move to the poor areas and kick out the poor, and they poor follow the rich, because the rich don't pay those below them as much as they get themselves

and there is no good way to stop that cycle of movement

exactly

that may help even out the states, now that i think about it. if the cycle moves quick enough it might as well be equilibrium.

well it would make it a bit softer i think, because right now, for job reasons, people flock to cities, which are expensive, and they can only spread out so far due to traveling distance to/from work etc

When that is no longer needed, people will spread out more over cheap areas, as long as those are cheap people settle there, and if not they move
Eventually you'll reach the point where for a large part its similar spread population

due to the prices settling down a similar average

but you'll always have poorer/richer areas/states obviously

thats simply free market effect,

Not everyone can make it big