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Montana brain drain is real, but here is why some young people return
For much of rural Montana, brain drain has been a fact of life for decades.
Come high school graduation, the pattern goes, small towns see their most ambitious sons and daughters pack their bags, heading off to attend college or otherwise try out life somewhere else. And comparatively few of them ultimately come back.
Take Anaconda, population 9,000, a former company town abandoned by its founding industry in the ’80s. These days it faces a demographic gap, with only 22 percent of its residents in their 20s or 30s, 5 percent less than the United States as a whole.
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