• SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    1600 people will support a grocery store just fine if the population was stable. The problem is that the town has been losing population since the 1920s. It lost 40% of its population since 2010. No company is going to want to open anything up there considering there will likely be less than 1000 people in less than a decade.

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      3 months ago

      Cairo is a ghost town. That is where my dad was born when my grandfather was building the bridges. I have always wanted to visit but haven’t made it yet

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        3 months ago

        It’s a pleasant enough little town, but low laying. I used to truck and went there a few times. But you get the feeling there’s an imminent flood coming. Just due to geography I wouldn’t want to own anything that isn’t a railroad bridge there.