My hometown had zero programming positions. The next town over had 1 company that required programmers, at about $9 an hour. So I went to college 300 miles south where the small cities are.

Because of the above, this hometown is also nearly 100% inhabited by the kind of assholes and do-nothings that never grew past highschool, the entire town is run by an entirely homogeneous clique that quite literally would rather it still be the jim crow era, and many locals still had klan hoods in the attic.