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by handmodel 1808 days ago
The other example is towns on lakes/oceans by some tourist attraction. You need a variety of people to work all the hotels/rentals/building etc. Like college towns - you also have a good percent of people who can pay a lot in taxes + consume a lot of services to benefit the whole towns.

I think as income has become more concentrated in certain industries it hurts. Even if your agricultural town had very little poor people - if is has virtually no one making about 70k then it is going to be tricky to build and maintain.