The problem in these places is brain drain. So what if the author is going back to Arizona? I'm willing to bet that he or she (sorry, the name is gender ambiguous) doesn't live there. I was born and raised in a left-coast university town, a veritable bastion of ticky-tacky non-conformism, where every third car is covered in bumper stickers touting political causes, from the obscure ('free western sahara!') to the absurd (a 'save the sea turtle!' sticker on a hummer). Every year the rent gets more outrageous and every year we're seeing more and more of these self-righteousness-mobiles with Missouri and S. Dakota and Texas license plates. Every hipster blue blood from yonder red-territories is moving here. Maybe as places like my town fill up with educated, affluent leftists, people with less fiscal pull will start pulling up stumps in search of cheaper digs, taking some of our laid-back accepting vibes out into beef-and-potato country with them.
On I'm Going Back To Arizona (And You Should Probably Come Too)
The problem in these places is brain drain. So what if the author is going back to Arizona? I'm willing to bet that he or she (sorry, the name is gender ambiguous) doesn't live there. I was born and raised in a left-coast university town, a veritable bastion of ticky-tacky non-conformism, where every third car is covered in bumper stickers touting political causes, from the obscure ('free western sahara!') to the absurd (a 'save the sea turtle!' sticker on a hummer). Every year the rent gets more outrageous and every year we're seeing more and more of these self-righteousness-mobiles with Missouri and S. Dakota and Texas license plates. Every hipster blue blood from yonder red-territories is moving here. Maybe as places like my town fill up with educated, affluent leftists, people with less fiscal pull will start pulling up stumps in search of cheaper digs, taking some of our laid-back accepting vibes out into beef-and-potato country with them.