• barsoap@lemm.eeOP
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    5 months ago

    Over here in SH urbanisation is actually reversing a bit. Only a bit, but on average villages aren’t dealing with a draining population any more. Lots of really small places that have issues, but OTOH the people there drive regularly to some village populous enough to have a supermarket and see that it’s quite stable. Just don’t ever visit Neumünster.

    And I also think that plays into the “great replacement” perception: There’s a difference when a place of say 20k gets 100 refugees and that’s it vs. getting 100 refugees and 1000 leaving to work elsewhere. Still nowhere close to rightoid conspiracy narratives, of course, but the incline of the curve looks quite different, it’s much easier to spin a narrative out of such a situation.