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[quote=Anonymous]"What is it like to attend a school in a part of the country with a very small population if you're from a place like the DMV or another major metro area? I'm thinking of states like Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska, or the Dakotas. I have friends who went to grad school in those sorts of places, but not college."

It would be such a better world if people would bother to read and not get defensive and then project their bizarre issues onto simple questions.

Chicago?!?! It says right there in the first sentence of the post "small population." How do you get confused and think we're discussing Chicago?

I'm from a place that feels pretty much like the show Friday Night Lights. Let's get real and acknowledge that most of the young people in those places are looking for a way to get to the "big city" and let's stop pretending that most people think that's where they want to end up if they're ambitious. The question is what happens to people who choose to go to school in Small Town America? Are people used to lots of racial and LGBTQ+ diversity comfortable there, especially if they themselves fit into one of these groups? Do people wonder why you'd choose to go there? (My sister went to a college where she was constantly asked WTH she choose to move clear across the country just to go to a cow town school.) Under what conditions does somebody choose to stay nearby, especially given the dearth of professional jobs opportunities?
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