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Researchers Seek to Better Understand Why Young Adults Choose to Move to Rural Montana

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 1) by khallow on Friday May 29 2020, @03:31PM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 29 2020, @03:31PM (#1000567) Journal
    Problem is that if you're too smart and independent, you could rock the boat and see flaws in how the system does things. In a substandard school system, it often gets that way because not rocking the boat is more important than covering important classes.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 29 2020, @05:58PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday May 29 2020, @05:58PM (#1000658)

    Problem is that if you're too smart and independent, you could rock the boat and see flaws in how the system does things. In a substandard school system, it often gets that way because not rocking the boat is more important than covering important classes.

    Oh, it's worse than that... Alachua county Florida: got disabilities? Yessiree... we'll serve you right here through the back gate, on the dirt traffic circle with no rain shelter. Folks will take your kids right from your car straight into the portable farm where your kids will spend their whole day. Please do show up late, and come to pick up early. Doin' their best to live like it's 1955, can't kick the coloreds around so much anymore so they get their yucks kicking the cripples, and especially the retards. Oh, but I forgot, in the cripple room of the colored school (yeah, the schools are still divided 94.9 / 5.1 because 95/5 is the test point where the feds would come in and demand more integration) yeah, that room: the in-room bathroom had a problem that vented sewer gas into the classroom - now most folks who look in there would think it's the kids 'cause so many of 'em are in diapers anyway, but, nope... that's the plumbing that hasn't been right for the last 10 years.

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