The USA today has an excellent article about some small rural Kansas towns attempting to rebuild its economic base and to prevent “brain drain” one family at a time by giving away free land to families willing to relocate.These small towns have decided that luring a big company to come and save the town is not the best way to rebuild its economic base. They instead focus on individual families, who they hope will move to the town, establish small businesses and contribute to the towns overall economic base. The extent to which these towns go to lure families is amazing. First they build off their reputations as small safe communities that allow people an escape from the fast-paced, high-crime big city life. Then these communities offer free land which relocating families can use to build homesteads. Finally, these communities offer money for down payments on homes and assistance in finding jobs.
once on February 10th, 2005 at 3:31 am
do they even have dsl out there?
Dane Carlson on February 10th, 2005 at 5:31 am
The website http://www.kansasfreeland.com mentions more than once the ubiquitity of broadband internet access, so yes, I’d assume they have DSL or something similar.
Chuck Huckaby on February 10th, 2005 at 6:25 pm
Hmmm… tempting… tempting….
DSL… Free Land…
Seriously, this sounds like an excellent idea. It’s something a town can do when no big wig sees a photo opportunity in sight.