What is it like when the local economy grows? There are more options for everybody. Shale natural gas development came to Williamsport PA. Then more jobs opened up (about 70% of the positions were taken by local people). Then those with new jobs had more money to support their families. Then local businesses had more business.
Nicole Jacobs says she always thought she'd have to leave home to find a job after college, but now she works in her home town and in her chosen field. She says that they now have the kind of economic opportunity that her grandparents had when the town was booming in the past,
"It's just a wonderful place to live right now." I'm happy for them. If you'd like to be happy for them but don't know if you should be, see yesterday's post re: Yale research.
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