Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns

Re:Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptyi... by richjdsmith on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:39AM (#18987499)

From my observations in the past two years living in Europe as a Canadian, it almost feels like a hopelessness due to the lack of social mobility here that causes those things.

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Re:Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptyi... by CalRobert on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:24AM (#18987734)

Huh, Europe is pretty big - where are you? I moved from the US to Europe (Ireland) and I'd say social mobility _seems_ higher here. There's still a definite class structure, and access to good schools remains an issue, but if nothing else the low-paid are paid more here and the high-paid are paid less. And we're one of the most unequal countries in the EU!

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Re:Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptyi... by qzy on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:27AM (#18987754)

>the low-paid are paid more here and the high-paid are paid less

That softens the issue, but doesn't make class mobility easier.

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Re:Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptyi... by close04 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:06AM (#18987634)

> lack of social mobility

What does this mean? Asking as a European that might be missing something (compared to Canada for example) but doesn't realize it.

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