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To: Jerome who wrote (49081)	7/11/2001 4:45:30 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 70976

OT re urban/rural: It's been a trend since cars began replacing horses. In 1900, and for millenia before that, most people were farmers, and trading centers (i.e., towns) were spaced so people could reach market in a day's horse ride. Cars changed that, and the internet may be (marginally) accelerating the trend. In Alaska, almost all job creation, and almost all private investment, is happening in the Anchorage metro area, and the areas directly North and South of Anchorage (MatSu Valley, and Kenai Peninsula). The rest of this vast State is stagnating economically, and is increasingly depopulated. This pattern will continue, as services and tourism replace resource extraction in the State's economy(the oil will run out eventually, the fisheries have been mismanaged into extinction, the old growth forests will be clear-cut or saved for the tourists in Parks).