I don't know. This depends on the circumstance. Not so when it comes to federal lands. They may think they and the communities that grew up as federal parasites have a right to subsidies in perpetuity, but they do not. In the case of National Forests, and most National Parks, when they were acquired, they were wastelands, the lands that nobody bothered to buy nor homestead.
People follow the jobs.
If it's a hydroelectric plant, you have a boom town for four years or so, then they move on. If it's logging, you have a boom town for perhaps 70 years, but they think they have a right to chop taxpayer's trees in perpetuity. They do not. This may sound harsh, but the extractive industries have never been kind economies. Andas far as living in a nice place like the mountains or beach, if that's where you want to live, the average Joe is going to be poor, they are terrible economies.