&gt;Factory workers. Then service workers who sell their food and cut their hair.<p>Except factories need workers too, and workers need haircuts so it doesn&#x27;t make sense for a factory to be built in the middle of nowhere where there are no workers.<p>&gt;How do you think places go from being an empty field to a town?<p>Rarely.<p>&gt;Then why do Boeing and Ford and GE build their factories in rural areas instead of in Manhattan?<p>Boeing&#x27;s factory is within easy commuting distance of Everett. GE&#x27;s is in Flint. Neither one was built in rural Iowa or the Mojave.<p>They&#x27;re not built in Manhattan because that would be prohibitively expensive given the amount of space they need.