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posted by martyb on Thursday May 28 2020, @06:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the For-the-Big-Sky dept.

Phys.org:

Research has shown that, while people in their 20s often leave rural communities, a higher percentage of young adults in their 30s choose rural communities, Schmitt-Wilson said. Still, most of the research on migration of young adults to rural communities focuses on "returners," or those choosing to move home to the community they were raised in, she added.

[...] The researchers found that while study participants were candid about challenges associated with life in rural areas of Montana—such as a lack of amenities and geographic and social isolation—they also highlighted a number of benefits.

"Those benefits included the quality of life they experience in their rural communities, including family-centered environments, low cost of living, unconditional support provided by community members, intergenerational friendships, increased sociability and unique opportunities for personal and professional growth available for young adults in rural communities," Schmitt-Wilson said.

If urban centers are in lockdown and their amenities are gone, would young people still choose city life or would places like rural Montana do?


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Thursday May 28 2020, @07:16PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Thursday May 28 2020, @07:16PM (#1000245)

    This can't be that hard to figure out. You move the big cool city when you are young because you are stupid, wanting to get away from all the boring old and uncool people in your little town. Then you come to the big cool city and it's all exciting. Then as time passes you slowly realize that life in the big city sucks hard -- yes there are a lot of things to chose from and do but it's all super expensive and it's filled with other people and as Sartre said -- hell is other people. But then you are stuck in your social city circle and your job that has probably for most people become a dead end soulless job. So one sad day you just had enough and you just want to get out and break free and go back home. Certainly so if you want to have tiny little offspring cause having them in your awesome super expensive but tiny loft apartment will suck. So you get some "uncool" job out on the country and move away and become happy again. Cause now you are old and uncool and you rather live in a house that costs less then your tiny apartment and life in the big cool city ever did, and your offspring will repeat the cycle.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 28 2020, @08:48PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday May 28 2020, @08:48PM (#1000275)

    I left the midsize town to the big city for college, got the degrees, got a jerb in the city after school - that ran for 12 years, had one rugrat and another on the way when the jerb imploded. Before the implosion our plan was to either: A) become unlikely wealthy and put the rugrats through private schools, or B) get out of the big bad city before kindergarten started. Of course, life threw us the C) jerb in the big city quits YOU option.

    Ironically, we moved to a bigger badder city next, and found a happy spot in the suburbs with good schools, etc. Took a detour from there to a smaller town and found that the bigger city suburbs actually serve our (disabled) children much better than the small towns. Also upside down from expectations: the smaller town had a whole lot of different tech employment opportunities - they all sucked, but there was quite the smorgasbord of listeria ridden choices. The "big" (1M pop) city we're in now has better jobs, but not nearly as many tech employers to choose from.

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