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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @07:46PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @07:46PM (#1000259)

    That's not "young adult", that's adolescent. Or if you prefer "youth" or "teen."
    I suspect the category is marketed as "young adult" to give the teen novel category more GRAVITAS for the authors and the books.
    "Big children's literature" doesn't have the same ring.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Booga1 on Thursday May 28 2020, @08:08PM

    by Booga1 (6333) on Thursday May 28 2020, @08:08PM (#1000268)

    True, but I wouldn't call anyone past 21 "young adult" no matter what. If that's the point access to legalized drugs are made accessible, they should just be plain ol' adults by that point.
    In the US, I'm not really sure why we still allow for people to be sent off to war before they're being granted full adult rights. I think it's wrong to ask people to die before we permit them to live.

  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by HiThere on Thursday May 28 2020, @11:16PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 28 2020, @11:16PM (#1000314) Journal

    Sorry, but teens aren't children. Their thoughts and goals are different. They aren't adults, either, though.

    According to species "design" children are designed to be dependent on parental support, teens are designed to search out the appropriate mate, and adults are designed to raise a family. ("Designed" should be read as an evolutionary metaphor here. Saying this properly takes more than twice as long.) The point, however, is that the thirties should be a period when the family raising is finishing its parental role and switching over to grandparenting. It really *isn't* young adult....not in terms of our evolution. That's what the whole "Saturn return" thing is really about. (Saturn is just a good way to measure time.)

    Now modern society has messed up that timing something fierce, but that doesn't change the evolved emotional timing and sequence. And people in their 30s are not emotionally "young adults". That's the late teens and early 20s (say 18 to 24). And note that all these changes are gradients, not binary reactions.

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