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Small towns rely on B&O tax revenue from small businesses though. So for the sake of streamlined access to cheap goods now there's no money to provide police protection, roads, parks, libraries, etc. that are paramounts of small-town life.

I have a lot of Facebook friends that I would completely lose touch with, because I have no backup contact info. If I knew ahead of time that Facebook was going away, I could procure a backup method but if Facebook just disappeared one day, I would have little chance of contacting a number of acquaintances and former colleagues. In the past, I probably would have had a Rolodex, a collection of business cards or even a local phone book to fall back on, but Facebook has pretty much replaced all of that. Even though I have mainly stopped browsing timelines, this is the main value of Fb now for me.

You can't expect the college to give you a realistic prospect when they are the ones who stand to (non-) profit from your matriculation.

At the very least, they will give you a best-case scenario instead of a worst-case or median-case.

This is a great example of knowledge that should be on a webpage somewhere. I feel the Medium format is really limiting the presentation of the information.