{"id":1030,"date":"2011-04-07T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2011-04-07T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T13:12:26","slug":"brain-gain-way-back-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/04\/07\/brain-gain-way-back-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain gain, way back when"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out today’s story<\/a> from David Sommerstein, NCPR’s contribution to a series on the upstate “brain drain.”<\/p>\n

Listening this morning, I was reminded of my own arrival in the north country from NYC…in 1971. I wasn’t the only “urban transplant” to choose this region in the ’70s. Some of us stayed, some returned to home cities or other locales.<\/p>\n

Here are two (unscientific) observations I’ve made over the years: often,\u00a0 young people leave their birthplace to explore other environments (it works in both directions–I left a city to move to a farm, my son left the farm to live in Tokyo and NYC); and, of those “urban transplants” who did stay here, most have added immeasurably to the economic and cultural life of the region. “Back-to-the-landers” didn’t stay hidden away on remote farms (it turned out to be a hard way to support growing families)–they became teachers, local government leaders, directors of nonprofits, small business owners, full-on farmers, and so forth.<\/p>\n

As long as there’s a gain, the drain is manageable. And, as one of the young people remarks in David’s piece–sometimes kids who are raised here travel or relocate for a while, and then return to build a life where they were born.<\/p>\n

We are a society in flux. And we move in all directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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