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rurallib

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1. such a strange word to use - siphoning

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jun 26, 2017, 12:10 PM

Jun 2017

The way they use siphoning it sounds like they are being sucked up and deposited in a college town against their will.

Could just be that the kids assess their futures and see that in their small home towns there simply isn't much of a future? Iowa has a hard time even keeping their own population in the state.

Our daughters both left Iowa because of lack of real opportunity. With Iowa's hard turn to the right politically it has lost one of its main claims to fame - the toleration that accepted people from other areas.

The article is behind a pay wall, so I am just going by your OP.

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College towns are siphoning students out of the rural heart of the Farm Belt [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2017 OP

such a strange word to use - siphoning rurallib Jun 2017 #1

You can get to the article through TWSJ.'s Twitter account. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2017 #2

As I said before I'm seriously considering leaving Iowa 47of74 Jun 2017 #4

we are also rurallib Jun 2017 #7

There is nothing new about this. murielm99 Jun 2017 #3

And encourage professionals to take jobs in rural areas 47of74 Jun 2017 #5

I am in rural Northern Illinois, murielm99 Jun 2017 #6

I think they see what they had missed out on growing up 47of74 Jun 2017 #8