Large numbers of students leaving the state represent a threat, albeit fledgling, to California's future, particularly if many don't return. (snip) The worst-case scenario for California is that a large number of students who leave the state for college don't return, leading to "brain drain."Going away from home to attend college and staying in the general area where you do your baccalaureate degree is quite common. Most of my friends did it, as did I.
California is so big we did it within California, moved from SoCal to Northern California. CA didn't lose us. What The Bee is describing is another matter entirely.
The article mentions interviewing a couple of soon-to-be freshmen at New York University. I couldn't help thinking how grubby and tired the urban east coast will look to a couple of kids who grew up in suburban CA.
In the mid-1970s the other DrC and I moved from CA to a MD suburb of DC and spent two years there. We never became accustomed to how nasty everything looked. Long-haul truckers once called the east and west coasts the dirty side and the shaky side, "shaky" referring to earthquakes. I wonder if they still do?
