[walrus01]

> Why should rural areas be subsidised?

> No one is making you chose to live there, plus you get cost of living savings from being there rather than in expensive urban real estate

This same argument could have been, and was used against funding for rural electrification and power generation dam construction during the depression and new deal era 90 years ago, which is one of the reasons why deepest Appalachia and much of the rural mountain western states now have grid electricity outside major cities.