Quote from Ndubuisi Ekekwe on July 28, 2021, 2:13 PM

Can American cities import Africans to fill these cities? That would be amazing indeed. But there is a lesson here - transformation is causing massive shifts in communities across America.

The "Hamptons of the Midwest" in Berrien County, Mich., has been losing residents. One man's solution? Offer $10,000 to lure workers to buy homes in the region. They aimed for 25 new residents and they think they'll be lucky to get five. Over 40 regions of the U.S. have offered such pay-to-relocate incentives, writes The Atlantic, but they do little more than provide instant, fleeting hype. These incentives, on the back of the remote work revolution, are "clearly doing little to nothing for lots of shrinking cities."