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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. You're right about the getting out and returning. And it's hard to see that happening much.

Similar to: You hear that story, rarely, about say, a college basketball star who gets a really good education, then goes back and gets involved in his or her city community.

Anecdotally, I have NEVER heard of someone getting out of KY or wherever, getting a masters or Ph.D., then going back to live and work in that same community. Not even a human interest story on the evening news. [/quote]

I am not from one of those communities, but am from a poor working class area in Virgina. I earned my Master's and there are very few jobs for me to go back to. While working in a college in another state, I met a student from my hometown; her first comment was "I've never met anyone who was able to get out of ???? before." I told her the trick was to leave and never move back. There was an article a few years back about a young black man who was living homeless on the streets in DC while going to college; he was from my hometown and he told the Post if he went back, he would never finish college and get drawn back into the gangs--he would rather live on the street in DC until he graduated. 
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