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Originally Posted by Irish mist
The Lakes Region was never, and is never, going to be a high-end jobs location. If somehow we could pave over the whole area and import several hundred thousand more people.....perhps good jobs would follow. But, most likely, perhaps not. And who would want such a thing ? The area is what it is.....a rural area on the edge of nothng but woods as you go north of here.
Older people retiring to the Lakes Region with their money is a boom for the local econmy. It's the only up-scale demographic that is likely to make the Lakes Region their home, and we are lucky to have them. This demographic group has done nothing but help the area....and if you have some info on how this is not so I would love to see it.
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You really should seek out the program the WMUR ran about the downfall of the economy in NH as a whole and why.
Everything you are stating is in fact happening and is also the reason why so many places are closing down. Old people in general do not do as much as the younger generation does to promote the local economy. They are not in most cases as active and many are looking for senior discounts and frugal with their retirement money. Not a bad thing
As for the rich ones I believe you will see most of them either leaving when they retire because of our cold winters, or splitting their stay between here in the summer and south during the winter.