Vermonters: Do you want your state to be more prosperous?
Simple. Just create metropolitan areas.
How about quintupling (at least) the population of Bennington and its county? Then persuade 200,000 or so folks from other states or countries to move into the Northeast Kingdom.
Presto! Instead of having one metropolitan area, Vermont would have three. Then it would be richer, because that’s where the money is. The biggest cities and their suburbs are booming while small towns and rural areas get smaller and poorer.
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