No, you are not alone. I see this happening on a smaller scale in my country and I see the villages that are depopulated are having poor infrastructure, very old buildings, no hospital reasonably close, no stores reasonably close. It is nice if you live on a mountain valley, not nice if the cost of rebuilding the houses costs more than building new ones and the society is hours away and the first snow of the winter will isolate you from the world till spring because it is simply too costing to open the road just for 3-4 people.