Home Sweet Home?

I just found out some interesting news...
I come from a little town of about 35, 000. Nothing specail, but it's been what I've called home all my life, despite wherever I've lived, and I'm quite attached to it. I heard today that the Maytag plant (making refrigerators, mostly) is going to be shut down completely within two years. Now, when this plant closes, my hometown is going to essentially be wiped out of existance. There will be nowhere for the thousands of workers to go, no new jobs to settle into. There simply is nothing for them to do once they lose their jobs. They will be forced to move to find new work, and Galesburg will become a ghost town, or worse, it will look like Gordon, Nebraska. ~Shudders~ My step-father is a management-type at the factory, and his job will soon no longer exist. That leaves two alternatives. A) He will retire. B) He will transfer to a new job somewhere, and my family home for over the last decade will be left behind. Thinking of that possibility breaks my heart. If my mother moves away and I can't go home to sleep in my old room, sit on the back porch, pick flowers from the side of the old house... I don't know how I'd manage.

Anyway, I'm really depressed now. This is one of the crappiest days I've had in a long time.