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A breath-taking city in western Maryland is offering $20,000 to 10 homeowners who agree to relocate there, with the only catch being that they’re willing to invest in their property and become a part of the community.
Cumberland, once known as the state’s ‘Queen City,’ features brick-paved streets, and its horizon bristles with church steeples.
Nestled along the north branch of the Potomac River, the Appalachian wonderland was at one time a hub of industry and boasted a population of 40,000 residents in 1940.
But after the glass and tire factories shuttered, and the railroad became obsolete, the number of inhabitant plummeted to just 19,000 people. Another troubling trend is that a fifth of its residents live in poverty. More
Disclaimer: Dr. Tar lived just up the road from Cumberland, in LaVale for a while. It’s beautiful mountainside country with a strong bluegrass tradition.
Are they doing like Oregon, and only offering it to non-citizens?
I looked at their gun laws. Screw them, their town deserves to die.
“Disclaimer: Dr. Tar lived just up the road from Cumberland, in LaVale for a while. It’s beautiful mountainside country with a strong bluegrass tradition.”
…Im sure it is. Just like my folk’s old stomping ground in Fairmont West Virginia is, same beauty, same Appalacian folks, also the same poverty from the same lack of jobs (that dont involve coal mines or intoxicating, illegal substances).
I live in a pretty, hilly area too, and pay for it with an hour-long commute every day to where the work is, because they dont build the factories in pretty, hilly areas, especially the 45 degree tilts common in the Appalacians.
I do like the mountains of my kin there, and my wifes kin in Tennessee.
But its damn hard to make a living there.
…which is exactly the problem THESE folks are having…
If Maryland became a red state, the town might have a chance.
Looks promising.
“Participate in the broader community” I’m out.
…move there, get Stolen Valor Democrat governor for free….
https://iotwreport.com/md-gov-wes-moore-apologizes-for-falsely-calling-himself-a-bronze-star-recipient/
It really is beautiful country but I left MD some 30 years ago because of the politics. I didn’t live in the west but went there a number of times.
FKH
They don’t know me.
The money would be better spent paying me to stay away.
All Cumberland natives have one leg longer than the other – it’s useful when walking along the steep hillsides. There is no level land within miles of Cumberland and the soil is worthless for farming.
Here’s a picture of a kid just trying to get to school:
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too close to dc. i’d shit in dc from a safe altitude & speed – same with austin, tx
I visited St Inigoes, Maryland for work once (Webster Field). Had dinner at Evans Seafood House. Definitely south of the Mason-Dixon line, they had never heard of Labatt beer. The Chesapeake Bay was beautiful.
…hey, are the hills too slopey for the Secret Service to be stationed on?
That may make it more desirable…
https://oregoncatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/meme1-scrtsrvcslpdrftrmpssntndjul24.jpg
I won’t live in a place where I can’t own whatever kind of guns I want to own. Screw Maryland!
Worked with several non-profits years ago in the Mental Health and Developmental Disability areas, plenty of recreation but plenty of poverty too!
Some of the areas of downtown Cumberland can be very dangerous and there ain’t many jobs other than health care, government, or other programs. Maryland laws are atrocious and the pursuit of happiness at a disadvantage – maybe for a $ 100,000 per family?
Is paying someone to come live in your town like
hanging a pork chop on your nasty kid’s neck so
at least the dog will play with him ??
MD doesn’t have enough money to entice me to return.
Beautiful state, no doubt about it, but so decidedly totalitarian that decent people are leaving (they attempted to tax the rain).
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
I inadvertently drove through Cumberland, MD three years ago. I had planned my route to Somerset, PA to by-pass Maryland to the west. My GPS brought me through Maryland instead. I did this to avoid carrying my firearm through Maryland because it doesn’t honor my CHL from Texas. I felt creeped out the whole time I was there because I knew I was a target with my Texas plates. Thank goodness, it wasn’t very long. They wouldn’t have taken me alive.