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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 Friday May 29 2020, @08:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2020, @08:10PM (#1000723)

    Learning to interact with a broad section of society is a useful skill, but one of the things you learn from that is that certain classes of people are best COMPLETELY AVOIDED.
    How many years of mixing with thugs or low-goal people do you think is appropriate to learn the lesson? Most people would say that, on balance, your child is better off spending more time around people who have their s*** together and have morals. That's the example you want for them. Not bad examples. You don't want to normalize failure behavior.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:31AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:31AM (#1000899)

    How many years of mixing with thugs or low-goal people do you think is appropriate to learn the lesson?

    More than one, after about three I managed to shed my private school ignorance.

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