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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  Population and economic declines in the frigid north vs population and economic booms on the coasts and sun belt is certainly going to impact college applications and college statuses going forward. Fact is American kids born in the 00s and 10s are not dreaming of going to college in Buffalo, Cleveland, Rochester, Detroit, Columbus, Indianapolis, Ann Arbor, West Lafayette, Chicago, Bloomington, Milwaukee. They're just not. A snow storm looks pretty on a single instagram photo, it's not fun to live through for 75% of the academic year for four years of college.  [/quote]

Your odd effort to insist that prosperity and economic opportunity for college graduates equate with warm weather is divorced from fact.  What's your agenda?
- Some of the fastest growing metro areas in the country (Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Columbus, Des Moines, Denver, Salt Lake, to say nothing of the Northeast and New England) are northern cities with cold and often snowy winters.  
- Some of the slowest growing metro areas are in the north as well, but that's a product of their economy, not their climate.   Some of the slowest growing (or fastest shrinking) metro areas are in the south as well - places like Memphis, or Shreveport, or Mobile, or Jackson. 
- Incomes are generally lower in the South.  All the southern states have per-capita incomes that rank them in the bottom half of US states (assuming VA, whose wealth is concentrated in the DMV, is now more a mid-Atlantic than southern state).   And depending on whether you count WV as a southern state, of the ten poorest US states all ten, or nine of ten, are in the South.
- The situation for college grads specifically is even more varied.   State and metro level macro figures disguise that even while metro Chicago might have lost a small share of its population over the past decade, and Cleveland grew at a slow rate, both are gentrifying and expanding opportunities for college graduates.   College grads make up a much bigger share of the workforce in Chicago or Boston or Hartford than they do in say Tampa.

Go to college wherever you want, but please stop spreading falsehoods.

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