One of the sadder things I saw was going to a farm sale east of the Twin Cities, was small dairy country - 40-60 cows and a couple hundred acres a farm.
They were all being bulldozed out & townhomes were being built up, 50 to 100 buildings in squares that all looked identical. Big beige squares with no trees, crowded together.
I think I'd want to kill myself if I had to come home to something like _that_ and call it home. Yuck.
But - can't support yourself on those small acres any more, so there is less people living out in the country. If you own the farm, the extra yard is a liability - it attracts vandalism & bad people, you can't find honest people who want to rent it for next to nothing, it's something you have to drive around with big equipment - cuts up the field, irrigation or tiling is much more difficult, selling off the yard to rich folk who want to live in the country used to look good but turns out those people create real problems for farmers and not so many of them to sell to with the ecconomy now, and with farm land worth $5-8,000 an acre these days, picking up 3-4 acres for a day or two's work with a bulldozer starts to look pretty good investment.
Not saying it is a good thing, but if you've been there, done that, it makes sense in today's world, they are excess housing and too small out buildings that just have no use any more.
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