I forgot about Parsons, it's up there.
Parsons was home to the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant. I did work there. The plant property was actually larger than the town itself. The plant was basically a bunch of shanty buildings spread out so that if something blew up, it just blew up that shanty. Every building was built as cheaply as possible so that if it blew, then the monetary damage was minimial. People went to work at a place that was purposely built cheap so that if they product they were working on blew up and killed/maimed them, at least their employeer was only out $15 on the facility. These buildings looked worse than barns that were abandonded 40 years ago, only inside they made cluster bombs.
In 2005 they announced they planned to close it, and did so in 2009. During those 4 years, the people of the town fought to keep it open. They actually fought for the right to go to a place designed with the possibility of blowing up for $10/hour.
I don't know if the place getting closed makes it a less depressing place to live or the fact they tried to keep it open and couldn't makes it a more depressing place to live.