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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?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday May 29 2020, @12:53AM
To be fair they don't actually say, or claim, that it's a cohort study. If it had been then nine people would have been a pitiful amount no doubt. They have set a fair amount of limits on their subject population with regards to subjects age, education and geographical location etc. Still one would assume that if they really had to they could have managed to dig up a few more subjects -- Montana might be a low pop state but the cohorts should be larger then that even when you add in education levels and such. So one can't really just look at the number of subjects, nine might of could be ok if it's a very long, reoccurring and in-depth interview study -- I gather it's at least a fairly comprehensive interview study so the interviews should be somewhat more extensive then a few questions. With that in mind the pop might actually be okay.
Cohort studies tend to have hundreds to thousands to hundreds of thousands of people in them so compared to that then nine would be quite bad indeed. 500 peps or so for a roman cohort if I'm not remembering wrong but that is somewhat besides the point I guess.