By Jim Russell , Pacific Standard

Northern New England is dying, aging rapidly thanks to the demographic bulge of Boomers. Young adults are a dear commodity to be hoarded. Who will pay for grandpa’s health care?


Main Street in downtown Montpelier. (PHOTO: GEAREDBULL/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)

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Boston Is Dying

Boston has a Detroit-sized brain drain problem. What good are all those world class universities and colleges if graduates flee the region? Michigan’s outmigration problem pales in comparison to the talent exodus from Massachusetts. All of New England, America’s first Rust Belt, is dying.