A clinic in the mountains is always a day's walk away

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Young people keep leaving the mountains and no subsidy has made them stay Closing a village school hits mountain settlements harder than anywhere else Rural areas lose their bus routes before they lose their population The pharmacy closes and a rural area loses its last walkable service Nobody agrees on where an urban area ends and the countryside begins Rural areas are not empty — they are just badly counted Urban sprawl eats farmland at the edge of every growing urban area Life in a rural area is cheaper until you need a car for everything Mountain farmers are paid almost nothing for the crops that feed the lowlands Living in a rural area means a 40 minute drive to see a doctor

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